TAKING NO PRISONERS

Sara Patricia Pascoe might look like she has just stepped out of a Walt Disney biopic, with that big blue-eyed look and Barbie blonde hair, but she takes no prisoners. She is rough and tumbles and extremely out of the box almost all of the time.

She told the Guardian, “I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it’s bad, but I just couldn’t get enough books, and I also didn’t like to give them back once I’d read them. I just read everything. I get a fizzy thing in my brain,” She always refers to herself as “fizzy”, like a champagne bottle with the cork off, perhaps.

She was different to other girls. Perhaps her originality had something to do with her parent’s divorce and the fact her mum had to support her and her two sisters on a low budget. Money was not number one on her agenda those days simply because there wasn’t enough to buy a Mars Bar on her way home from school.

“When I was little, I wore shoes that were too small for me for years, so my feet grew weird, my little toenails grow and then they just fall off and then they grow again.” She told the Guardian one of her little toes is lacking a nail; the only sign of the poverty she had once experienced. She is much richer now. She even bought a house and a dog.

ROCK AND ROLL ANGELS

Sara is a quicksilver Gemini with her moon in Capricorn; the kind of Gemini that ensured some evolved rock and roll angel would gift her with tons of individuality and a humanitarian outlook; the kind of attributes that got her noticed, along with her good looks of course. She could be deemed an intellectual with a funny bone, a sort of female Stephen Fry, only thinner and very much shorter. Like the master himself, her train of thought is utterly skew whiff and incredibly on target with jokes like “You should only have sex with a famous person if you really, really genuinely want to tell people about it afterwards.”
She does not define herself really, even if she pretends to perhaps. She did not even vote for the “gag hag” title because she once had a long-term relationship with fellow Comedian John Robins. She is the type of gal who goes beyond definitions; her type of “Funny” is a cryptic take on sex and female singlehood, it hits the mark simply because it goes beyond stereotypes. The result is we laughed ourselves silly through many, of her TV hits, including The Thick of It, Being Human, Have I got News for You and the all-female sketch Show Girl Friday.

ON THE EDGE OF THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

Let’s face it, she makes a mockery of the idea that women are never funny, perhaps because she dances on the edge of the light fantastic as if she never broke her toenails. She is a household name, probably a result of being continually invited on panel shows like Mock the Week. She told the Guardian, “A panel show is, would you like thousands of Pounds? Yes, please. Would like to come and sit with your friends? Yes, please. Do you want wine in a mug? Yes, please. All you have to do is sit there and talk to your friends and then someone edits your worst bits out. It’s like the best version of you on your night out.”

But hang on, there must be a chink in her armour somewhere. Is it absurd to be consistently funny and consistently successful without ever wanting to bang one’s head against a brick wall? The only planet one could blame for Sara’s odd emotional hang-up is the moon. Those blue moon rays keep people at a distance. Yes, folks laugh at her hilarious jokes but when the curtain comes down, she does not have to think about them anymore. They do not realize how self-critical she can be or that her independent heart needed someone to come home to when she had a bad day. Venus in Gemini ensured this beautiful comedienne found her match. She married Steven Raskoupoulos, also the next best thing to a court jester. She gave birth to their first child on Valentine’s Day in February 2022. Someone in heaven was laughing when that happened, laughing with joy.

So yes, Sara does do “silly billy” well, as the Guardian claimed, but her onstage comedy might become less revealing; she could dedicate herself to writing funny books more exciting than the one she has already written, like “Animal: the Anatomy of a Female Body!” From a purely psychic viewpoint, Neptune’s imaginative rays in Sagittarius will work overtime towards another epistle, this time all about motherhood. We can’t wait to laugh.