What's your favourite film and why?

My favourite film is Now, Voyager with Bette Davis. It's just such a fantastic story - the way she emerges from the dowdy old woman into this beautiful butterfly who gains confidence. And there isn't a better actress than Bette Davis. Then there's her cranky old mother who's just a psychopath. It's quite a dark story. In those days they didn't really do very many relationship-type stories, and this was a really complex family relationship story and I loved it.

The piece of music that means the most to you?

I suppose it would be Hotel California by The Eagles. It's a song my daughter loves, and I heard it when I first met my husband when we were just kids back in the late Seventies. The very last day that I walked out of the pub that I used to work in, the Weavers Inn in Calton, was the start of my new life as a stand-up, and the last record I heard was Hotel California. Strangely enough, I took my daughter back to the pub two years ago and we walked in and the jukebox clicked on and it began playing. We laughed our heads off.

The best performance you've ever been to?

One would be my daughter (Ashley Storrie) in a sketch show we did last year in Edinburgh called Square Street. At one point I had to sit and watch her do a bit by herself, and it was just brilliant, really funny. Musically, Shirley Bassey at Glastonbury was great. She brought hairs up at the back of my neck. She's just brilliant. She took command of the stage. All these young people were up trying to be impressive and Shirley walks on with glittery wellies and took the whole place by storm.

The book you have read more than once?
Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson. That's the best book in the world. It's all about growing up in this bizarre family and it's based on her real family. The writing just flows, it's awesome.

The fictional character whose life you'd like to lead?

There's an American show I love called The Gilmore Girls, and I'd like to be Lorelai Gilmore. She's a woman from a rich, middle-class New England, Hampton family who has a baby at 16 and breaks away from the family to start her own life and raise the daughter herself. She gets some really great lines.

Your idea of classic TV?

Dinnerladies was one of the most fantastically well-written sitcoms I have ever seen. It was ordinary people in ordinary circumstances saying ordinary things and yet it was unbelievably funny. It made me realise how good Victoria Wood was as a writer. I was never really a Victoria Wood fan.

Your favourite work of art?

Gustav Klimt's The Kiss. My daughter has a big wall hanging of it. I just love the colours, and the way he used metallic paint as well as ordinary, regular paint. It just looks so passionate. The woman's neck looks like it has been broken by the force of this kiss. It is just a stunning piece of work.

Prediction for star of the future?

I love rock music and I saw a band called Bismarck at Ivory Blacks in Glasgow. They're a Rutherglen band. They play modern rock which they write themselves. I think they're still unsigned actually.

Essential website?

Well my blog goes on a few websites and I've got a myspace, so blog.co.uk is one of my favourites because my blog goes on there and some of my videos. I like my YouTube site because my daughter and I make a lot of films and put up clips. I also love Richard Herring's blog.

The entertainment gadget you can't live without?

It's got to be my iPod. I can't travel anywhere without it. It's an iPod mini that has had a good few batterings in its time. It's been all over the world. It's great when you sit on the Tube and somebody wants to talk to you and you just put your iPod in. I've got The Zutons, Amy Winehouse, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Supertramp and Steely Dan on the go at the moment.