Chi with a C: ‘I’m trying to un-influence people as much as I can’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “‘You work in Subway all day.’” Think of Gen-Z comedy, and you probably imagine TikTok dances, niche tweets and YouTube pranks. Her most recent viral video imagined British sitcoms for the pandemic era, with Nessa from Gavin and Stacey selling her own homemade vaccine and Philomena Cunk questioning: “Who is Panda Mick and how did he come to be more famous than Susan Boyle is today?” Diane Morgan, the original Cunk, was one of the many actors impersonated in the video to reshare it on social media, something Keskin says she’ll “never be cool about”. “I thought there’s no reason why I can’t do the kind of things that I would watch on TV so I just started,” says Keskin. When Twitter is your job, you “can’t really enjoy it”, she says, especially when fans feel like they know you more than they know your work.