They sold it to me as like Vegas but Blackpool seemed like a pretty quiet seaside town

NEW comedy offering Feel Good is a semiautobiographical series about recovering addict and comedian Mae (Mae Martin) who is trying to get her life on track.

Friends star Lisa Kudrow makes a guest appearance as Mae’s wine-guzzling mother Linda – who inadvertently reveals that her daughter is a drug addict to Mae’s new girlfriend George (Call the Midwife’s Charlotte Ritchie).

Linda is heading to Blackpool with her hubbie ... to scatter their pet cat’s ashes.

Here Lisa tells us what it was like visiting the Vegas of the north.

FOR me it was one time I said a line a certain way ‘I haven’t finished ma Scotch egg’.

It came out like Annie Hall’s dad when he declined to drive Annie and Alvie to the airport saying ‘I haven’t finished ma drink”.

I don’t know why, but it really cracked me up and then I looked up and Mae was laughing too and then I didn’t feel so insane. Thank you, Mae.

I DON’T think so. Mae doesn’t need to learn anything from me. She’s completely wonderful.

I GOT to go out with everyone for Mae’s birthday. That was definitely a highlight for me.

Everyone was great. I feel we got along well. Mae is fantastic! We’ve kept in touch.

I love actress Charlotte (Ritchie) and I’m sorry I didn’t bug her for her contact info ... yet!

Adrian (Lukis), who played my husband, and I have kept in touch. I loved watching him work when I was off camera.

I THINK Linda is fascinating and I understand and sympathize. These scripts are so well written. The people are complicated. The damage is real and yet I was laughing.

I’M not sure I ‘found’ her fast enough for my liking. But to me, the script was written in a way that clearly conveys their family’s past. Linda loves her daughter and she is still always going to be worried about her. I think Linda resents having to give so much of her attention to this worry when she could use that energy on her own ‘projects’ which, of course, she CAN do, but doesn’t, and is resentful of that on top of everything else but won’t acknowledge it.

EVERYTHING. I love what this show is about. This planet is not easy. It can be hard to be a person here and then we unconsciously make it harder while we can still be charming and well-intentioned and it’s funny. I am happy to be part of something that is charming and well-intentioned.

I understand you liked the catering on set – digestive biscuits in particular. Have you been able to buy those in LA?

UH… I order them in bulk! Yes, I have them in the morning with my coffee. Heaven. Thank you Feel Good.

Feel Good can be seen on Channel 4 at 10pm on Wednesdays and the full series is now available, free to view or download, on All 4.

Were you able to give Mae any words of advice about acting and fame? It was Mae’s birthday when you shot together. Did you go out to celebrate? What attracted you to the role? How soon in the process did you get to grips with the character of Linda? What did you enjoy most about making Feel Good? Mae Martin with Charlotte Ritchie, who plays George Lisa Kudrow Below: Lisa with the rest of the cast of Friends: clockwise from top left: Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston

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