CHASING THAT FIRST BIG LAUGH

Alison Spittle didn't grow up with aspirations to be a comedian, but realised in her teens that she had a talent to make people laugh. "I remember one time I made one of the neighbours vomit laughing," she says, with a solemn nod. "It was a story about a bad shift. She physically vomited and I was like, 'Class — I can do this for a living.' "There's no better feeling of power," she adds, smirking, "than making someone vomit." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]