When you Google Lucy Beaumont's name, the first search prompt that reveals itself is: 'Are Jon and Lucy really married?'. The second is: 'Is Lucy Beaumont's mum her real mum?'.
The confusion surrounding the reality of the Hull native's life is understandable.
Between Meet the Richardsons, a mockumentary following her relationship with TV husband (played by her real life husband, Jon Richardon) as well as the comedy couple's panel show, Jon & Lucy’s Odd Couples, things have become a bit blurred.
"We are quite autobiographical, me and Jon," she smiles, speaking over Zoom. "Bizarrely, we get on better when we're in situations where most people... we're comics, and comics are a different breed. They are wired differently."
"It's an odd thing to want to make people laugh all the time, but we get on well when we do that."
Over the years, it seems that Beaumont has become best known as her role of wife - be it in real life or written. But that wasn't always the case.
Her foray into comedy saw the stand-up enjoy a sharp rise in the British circuit, making it to the finals of So You Think You're Funny in 2011, and winning the BBC Radio New Comedy Award in 2012.
She garnered huge critical acclaim with her Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs, and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award with her debut Edinburgh show, We Can Twerk It Out in 2014.
Unfortunately, the comedy scene of the noughties was brimming with misogyny, with Beaumont recalling one reviewer writing detailed descriptions of her looks rather than her material.
"It's mad," she reflects. "When I first began over 15 years ago, some people were embarrassed to even look at you [as a female comic]. You didn't meet any other female comics. I've got an e-mail somewhere that says: 'We've had a female comedian on this month already'."
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Thanks to her success in TV and writing, Beaumont has only made occasional appearances on stage in recent years, but has finally decided to bite the bullet and return to tour with her new show, Trouble and Strife (a cockney phrase for wife).
"That's probably what most people know me as - as Jon's wife," she explains of the show. "I think this is more about me as a stand-up, really, and navigating the last few years. I mean I had a mad life to start with, and it's just gone more and more surreal.
"My life is like a sit-com, that's why we ended up filming a sit-com," she smiles. "I sort of draw people into my world. Being a 40-year-old woman is weird, and I talk about my childhood, and how I got into comedy. So, hopefully, it's just quite silly."
"That's what I am really: a stand up. I wouldn't have been able to sell this show without the TV I've being doing, but that's not what you do it for. You do it to be in a room full of people and making them laugh - there's no greater feeling, really.
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As well as touring the UK, Beaumont will make a trip to Dublin's iconic Vicar Street in November - something she is as nervous about as she is excited.
"I haven't done anything in Ireland before, really," she admits. "I haven't been on any TV or local radio. I did a gig in Belfast once."
The gig in question took place at a student night in the 90s, a comedy night run by none other than comic-turned Late Late host, Patrick Kielty.
"I was amazed by the maturity of these young students in Belfast," she says, "and that sort of level, the edge to his comedy with these young students. You don't get that in other places. It felt like a special place."
Although her material stays firmly away from politics, off-stage Beaumont has an invested interest, and says she admired watching Irish comics weave through heated topics throughout the 90s.
"Patrick Kielty is an amazing comic," she says. "He had such a strong political voice, and I remember seeing him a lot in the 90s, and you learn a lot. I remember watching Dylan [Moran] on UK TV, and it was extremely left wing but it was extremely humanist and, like, so cutting.
"If you grow up with that, they do help to inform you. It's very, very powerful," she adds, suggesting that too many channels today seem to avoid political comedy altogether .
"The best comics know how to manipulate a pressure valve," she adds. "But I talk about crows landing on my head; I'm not a political comic, I just want to see how much laughter I get out of audience, but I really respect comics who have a political stance."
Before we finish out chat, I ask if the stand-up has a final message for Irish audiences:
"I'd like to shift a few more tickets in Ireland," she states. "I'd like to tell people that its sold out everywhere else, so take a chance!"
Lucy Beaumont is coming to Vicar Street on Thursday, November 30. For more info, visit VicarStreet.com.
