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What was your first job? I got a job working in a gourmet deli called Pretzel Pantry- I was very handy with a schnitzel.

How much was in your first pay packet and what did you spend it on? I’m currently struggling to remember my own name so I have no idea, and I have no idea.

What is the worst job or task you have ever been given? Lets justsay you haven’t lived until you’ve had to clean a urinal.

What are your qualifications and where did you study? I did two years of a theatre arts degree at Curtin University in Perth which means I’m highly qualified when it comes to giving people massages and drinking cask wine.

Did you ever consider any other career? I did consider becoming a nun but then I realised I had ankles so I knew it would never work out.

Do you have any advice for young people entering the workforce? Marry money- in other words, try to avoid it.

How do you cope with work related stress? Thereare advantages to largely working in bars.

Describe a typical day for you When I’m doing a season, I’m flat out for a good hour-and-a-quarter a day, which is quite difficult to sandwich in between all the sleeping and drinking I have to do.

How do you deal with difficult people? Badly. Asix-year-old child once told me I was made out of wee and I cried.

If you could change jobs for a day what would you do? I wouldn’t mind being the Pope for a day for starters. I think I’d look pretty natty in that outfit.

Sunday Telegraph, 17^th December 2000

For a woman whose life is based on comedy, Judith Lucy has had a very unfunny couple of years. The stand up comedian, turned radio and television personality, is emerging from a period of hell.

"1999 and 2000 have been running neck and neck," she said. "1999 looked like everything was coming up roses- I had fallen in love, I was going to Montreal for the comedy festival, I was releasing a CD and was even taking phone calls from Jay Leno’s show. Everything I touched was turning into gold"

But it wasn’t long before all the hope and promise disappeared. Personally and professionally, Lucy’s life turned into disaster.

She returned home from Montreal to discover the Mick Molloy show, on which she had a regular spot, had been axed after just eight weeks.

Her CD had been regulated to the discount bins and her head-over-heels romance had soured.

But these disasters were nothing compared to the personal hurt about to hit. Lucy’s father died about 12 months ago, soon after the pair had a falling out. And just a month ago, her mother died.

But rather than wallow in her sadness, Lucy has seized on her annus horribilus, making up the focus of a new stand up comedy show, Colour me Judith.

"It all began when the Mick Molloy show was axed. I had a falling out with my father, Dad died, we had to put Mum into a home but, hell, that doesn’t stop me from doing a dance at the end." Said Lucy, who stresses the show is never disrespectful. But she is scathing of the man who dumped her.

"That was just one of those unbelievably embarrassing ones," she said of her relationship.

"I could not believe the things that were coming out of my mouth:’ You make me feel complete, you have opened me up like a beautiful tulip who’s never heard a bird sing."

Lucy can laugh about failed romances and poor performances, but she’s still coming to grips with family tragedies.

"You can bounce back from career stuff but when your parents die its not a lot of fun" the comedian admitted.

But she is feeling optimistic.

"I was talking to my hairdresser the other day – he’s a bit of a New Age hippy-trippy – and he said he knew a lot of people who had had a really bad year. He said it’s all going to turn around next year because it’s the Age of Aquarius."

By Alice Jones, Sunday Telegraph, December 10^th 2000

The funny girl returns to the stage this week with her one-woman show Colour me Judith. She took time out from rehearsals to show off her funny bone.

Just to continue drinking and smoking- it's not going to be easy but I'll give it my best shot.

I've always dreamt of doing something that involves singing or dancing and I've never been inhibited by a lack of talent.

People might be shocked and stunned by this news, but I'm a big fan of country music, not that there's any Garth Brooks in my collection or anything. But my most recent purchase was Johnny Cash's last album. You can't beat the man in black.

Ooohh that's much too much of a toughy, unless it's something like Ripper '86 or Ripper '75. It's too tough to choose, but I do keep coming back to those wonderful '80s compilations.

Without a shadow of a doubt it's Bert Newton. He's a showbiz wonder. He is closely followed by Denise Drysdale- any woman who runs around in a chicken suit and gets dressed up in crazy clothes is a hero of mine.

Some of the things people say to you. A taxi driver in Brisbane once said to me "Well, I guess it's back to the hotel, where you can drop the voice and persona". I guess he didn't realise this was the permanent version of me"

Sun Herald 7/1/01