Fiona Allen would "find it difficult" to be friends with someone who isn't funny.
Fiona Allen needs funny friends
The 58-year-old comedienne - who is married to Michael Parkinson Jr and has Honey, Sofia and Felix with him - made her name starring in Channel 4 sitcom 'Smack the Pony' in the late 1990s alongside Sally Phillips but explained that she used to struggle with mothers at school who did not appreciate her sense of humour.
She told Metro newspaper's Sixty Seconds column: " I'd find it difficult. I used to get a thing with some of the school mums who had absolutely no sense of humour. A lot of them were into horses and one day, given that so many get shot during racing. I said, 'Vet school must be really easy. Day one: this is a rocking horse. Day two: this is a real horse. The rest of the course must be gun etiquette.' They didn't think that was funny at all."
Meanwhile, the former 'EastEnders' star went on to recall that she had "so much fun" during her time on 'Smack the Pony' and remembered a time when she had come up with the idea of incorporating a bull into the script and "fell in love" with the creature on set.
"We had so much fun. I came up with the idea of a bullfighter who fell in love with the bull. She couldn't kill it and they ran away together to Wigan. The producers found a beautiful bull who'd won awards for his personality.
"I was terrified for an hour or two and then I just fell in love with him. I'd been holding his horn like we were holding hands for half an hour and the farmer came up and told me not to do that as they don't like it. He could have told me earlier! And the bull nudged me (he wasn't being awful but he was so massive and strong) and I thought my ribs were going to break. It was the best day of filming. The creativity on that show was fabulous. Sally (Phillips) and Doon (Mackichan) were just so funny, and when Simon Pegg was on I had to look at his forehead because he made me laugh too much.
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