Maisie Adam is in her Tadpole Era
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where on Thursdays we raise a glass with a brand new guest.
This week we welcome comedian and podcaster Maisie Adam who tells us all about getting married and taking part in Soccer Aid in the same weekend, the new series of Last One Laughing, and being in her Tadpole Era.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of white wine question time i ran up the path to the church where my |
| 0:08.5 | like husband and his groomsman and my bridesmaids and father dominic were waiting and i was there |
| 0:14.8 | in like basically like a PE kit just sort of practicing walking down the aisle. |
| 0:23.6 | I really hate it when they refer to us as talent. |
| 0:27.1 | You get like, okay, so cruise call time is this and then talent will be on set from this. |
| 0:29.2 | You're like, they're talented. |
| 0:30.8 | They're making sure that we're all audible. |
| 0:32.8 | They're making sure that I look camera friendly |
| 0:35.5 | and not like something from Dawn of the Dead. |
| 0:55.1 | I think we'd been watching like a David Attenborough about Mount Everest. She went, oh, because I've climbed it. I think dad said like, you what, mum? Like, I don't think you did. She like made out like my dad was neat. She was like, because I did. Like, what are you talking? Yes, I did. I went up and I skied down. I went, |
| 0:56.8 | you hike up and you ski down. |
| 1:02.9 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time. The podcast that asked its guest, three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And my guest today is a comedian and |
| 1:08.3 | podcaster from Harragher in North Yorkshire whose comedy career began after her acting career didn't get off to the best of starts. |
| 1:16.4 | Raised in a football-obsessed family in rural Yorkshire, she studied with the National Youth Theatre and then the East 15 Acting School in South End-on-Sea. |
| 1:24.8 | But upon graduating, struggled to find work and decided instead to |
| 1:28.9 | change tact and try out her stand-up skills. And thank God she did. Just a year after her first gig, |
| 1:35.2 | she won the prestigious national contest so you think you're funny at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. |
| 1:41.4 | Two years after that, she made her professional television debut, and well, |
| 1:44.3 | since then, you can't move for her on pretty much every TV panel show going, be it eight out of |
| 1:49.5 | ten cats, mock the week, have I gotten used for you, would I lie to you, or seeing her full |
| 1:55.2 | competitive streak in full flow in Taskmaster, which she won in 2025. And this year, I'm sure we're going to see a comeback of that competitive streak |
| 2:04.6 | as she stars in the second series of The Last One Laughing, |
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