Ep. 577 - Lily Phillips - BBC New Comedy Awards Finalist, Chortle’s “One to Watch”, Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year runner up
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Lily Phillips is one of the most exciting up and coming voices in comedy in the UK. She was a Runner Up at the 2019 Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year, Funny Women Finalist 2018, and was a part of prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2021, she reached the grand final of the BBC New Comedy Awards on BBC One and she was Chortle’s One to Watch 2022. She is a series regular on The Stand Up Sketch Show and The Stand Up Sketch Show Christmas Special (ITV2), and she recently starred in a new hidden camera show for E4 Digital as a fake podcast host. Her credits also include Period Dramas (BBC3), The Joy Of Missing Out (All4), and comedy shorts for Comedy Central Online. She has also debated at the Oxford Union. Lily is also a talented writer and in 2021, her script beat out over 1,000 applicants to be shortlisted as the final 3 in the Funny Women’s Writer’s Award, sponsored by Sky Studios. Lily has fronted campaigns for Dominos, North Face, Bumble, and Mooncup, bringing her hilarious brand of feminist comedy to the masses .
Lily Phillips is our guest in episode 577 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Tickets for Lily Phillips: Crying at Soho Theatre available here - https://sohotheatre.com/events/lily-phillips-crying .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:21.6 | They pick four things that they really love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:27.6 | My guest in this episode is the comedian Lily Phillips, returning to London's Soho Theatre with her show crying, |
| 0:34.6 | an unapologetically honest show delving into the taboo truths of childbirth, |
| 0:39.8 | IVF, early motherhood, and mental health. And following a sellout Edinburgh run, |
| 0:45.3 | Lily is definitely one of the most exciting, up-and-coming voices in comedy in the UK. |
| 0:50.8 | She is a BBC New Comedy Award finalist, a runner-up at the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year competition, |
| 0:57.5 | a funny woman finalist, and Lily was part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. |
| 1:05.9 | She's a regular on The Stand-Up Sketch Show on ITV2, having made three series and the Christmas special, |
| 1:12.6 | and her other TV credits include period dramas on BBC 3, The Joy of Missing Out on all four, |
| 1:19.7 | the fake podcast show on E4, and Comedy Central Live. |
| 1:24.0 | Lily is also debated at the Oxford Union. |
| 1:27.6 | Lily's podcast is called ghastly women, |
| 1:30.3 | which she co-host with the former guest of my time capsule, Esther Manito. |
| 1:34.6 | It was a winner at the 2025 Golden Lobes. |
| 1:38.0 | So let's hear about her show, her life, |
| 1:41.2 | and the five things that Lily Phillips would want in a time capsule. |
| 1:48.0 | Hello. |
| 1:49.0 | Hi, Lily. You're all right? |
| 1:51.1 | Yeah, how are you? |
| 1:52.4 | Oh, great, thank you. |
| 1:53.9 | There we are. |
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