1. Sophie Duker's mother is from Cameroon and her father is from Ghana.
18 Facts About Sophie Duker
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Sophie Duker attended North London Collegiate School until 2008 before studying French and English at Wadham College, Oxford.
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Sophie Duker joined the Oxford Imps in her first year at university.
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An alumna of the Pleasance Comedy Reserve, Sophie Duker was shortlisted for the Funny Women award in 2015.
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Sophie Duker founded and hosted the "Manic Pixie Dream Girls" show as part of Edinburgh's Free Festival in 2016 and 2017.
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Sophie Duker has written for the Huffington Post and she was an assistant producer for Frankie Boyle's New World Order and a researcher for 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
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In 2017, Sophie Duker appeared in a Turtle Canyon short titled "The Dates", which explores bisexual dating culture.
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In 2018, Sophie Duker set up the comedy night "Wacky Racists", which currently has a monthly residency at 2Northdown in Kings Cross, London, and performs spin-off shows at festivals and events across the UK.
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Sophie Duker co-starred in the pilot for a hidden camera sketch show on Channel 4 called Riot Girls as well as on the Comedy Central UK comedy show What I Wish I'd Said in 2018.
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Sophie Duker took her 2019 show, "Venus", to the Brighton Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe, performing at the Edinburgh Pleasance from 31 July to 25 August 2019.
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In 2019, Sophie Duker appeared on the hip-hop comedy panel show Don't Hate the Playaz.
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Sophie Duker joked about the phrase in the context of discussing her views on whiteness and capitalism in response to a 1970s clip of James Baldwin talking about black power.
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Sophie Duker described that "far-right blogs to mainstream tabloids" began covering the story six days after the episode aired, with the Daily Mails Sarah Vine criticising the comments as "hateful dogma", after which 1,300 complaints were made to the BBC.
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Sophie Duker was subject to racist harassment on social media over the comments.
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However, Sophie Duker quit after the first episode in protest over cuts to her monologue about conflict between Israel and Palestine, with comedian Kemah Bob and the show's assistant producer quitting the show alongside her.
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Sophie Duker's first gig after lockdown was a fundraiser for Reclaim These Streets in July 2021.
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Sophie Duker won her episode of the latter with the specialist subject of Alan Bennett's play The History Boys.
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Sophie Duker returned to the Edinburgh Festival line-up in 2022 with a show titled "Hag".