556 - xComedian London Hughes: ‘I made more money in one year in America than my whole life in Britain’
The Oxbridge lot are so boring. Like, I get it, hire your friends. But don't assume you know what the audience wants It wouldn’t be the last time that Hughes encountered blatant racism in her career. At a BBC radio gig, a producer asked her not to do “any Black material”. In 2013, after complaining to her co-agent that she wasn’t getting many auditions, he told her: “Black people just aren’t in this year.” They parted ways soon after. For the next five years, Hughes’s career reads like an en...