But I’d been honing that delusional self-belief since I was eight when I first watched the film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s story A Little Princess. As a standup comedian, delusion is your greatest asset: you have to believe in what you’re doing more than anyone else. That’s the thing about delusion: you have to believe it’s real until it becomes real. Every time I do standup now, I want to feel exactly like Sara, enchanting her classmates at her boarding school. I didn’t realise until I rewatched A Little Princess as an adult that she’s not just a fantasist – she’s a standup comedian.