Nicola Sturgeon wants to follow in the footsteps of Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd with an award appearance at the Golden Globes in two years’ time.
The ex-first minister revealed her ambition as she announced her appearance at March’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
Sturgeon, 54, who will be co-hosting a show with Scots crime writer Val McDermid, explained that she was chuffed to be “doing a gig”.
As she attended the launch party at Glasgow’s Social Hub, she said: “We are appearing at this year’s comedy festival which is as much as a joke to us as it is to anybody else.
“We don’t have a double act name but watch this space – it might happen.
“We did a gig together, haha, ‘a gig’ together, before Christmas about books and it went well and we thought why not?”
Asked if she was inspired by fellow Scot Gadd who won a double award for his production of Baby Reindeer at the Golden Globes, she added: “Absolutely – do you think we’ll be at the Golden Globes next year? Maybe the year after.”
Sturgeon, who drove to the launch party after passing her driving test just over a year ago, stuck to soft drinks while Val went for something stronger.
She said: “I’m going to have a drink. It makes it easier to be driven by Nicola.”
Sturgeon, who will join former SNP MP Mhairi Black at the festival, added: “We think we’re funny but probably our nearest and dearest don’t think we’re funny.
“It’s books and banter.”
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