Sophie McCartney in Manchester

Sophie McCartney is a Liverpool-born English comedian and novelist whose work draws on motherhood and millennial adulthood. She became known for her Tired And Tested videos and a parenting parody of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You.” Her Planet Birth sketches won the Funny Women award for best comedy series, while her books include Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride into Parenthood and the novel Mother Hens. The debut Tired & Tested stand-up tour expanded beyond its original run to dates across the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Sophie McCartney followed it with One Foot in the Rave.