Teenage kicks: The creator of Derry Girls
The Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls is TV’s first runaway hit of 2018. Nadine O’Regan talked to its writer-creator Lisa McGee who, although now based in London, grew up in Derry in the 1990s
‘It feels like something is happening - like people are interested in what we have to say. I always felt like female comedy was put into this box. But female comedy isn’t just about being a woman; it’s about being human. There seems to be a real appetite for it now, and that’s exciting.”
Over the phone from her home in London, Lisa McGee is musing on a changing situation for Irish women ...
