Taskmaster star Chloe Petts: ‘You can be mean about me – just use the right pronouns’

‘I love blending the stupid and the smart’ (Picture: Channel 4)

Chloe Petts is thinking about bedbugs, or, to be more specific, they were thinking about bedbugs right before I spoke to them.

The day I graced Chloe’s laptop screen, they were set to appear on Have I Got News for You, and were quite literally doing their homework before that night’s show when I called. 

‘I think bedbugs get top billing and then plague,’ the 32-year-old joked. ‘Unfortunately, the bedbugs are funnier [than plague].’

In any other context with any other interviewee, trying to find a joke about an infestation of creepycrawlies would be a bit odd. But this is all very in character for the comedian who’s cheerful, high energy, and clearly very...