London Hughes — the Croydon comedian who is about to conquer America

When the comedian London Hughes moved to America, she asked her fellow Brits Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Daniel Kaluuya and Lenny Henry to sign her visa application form. “And Phoebe gave me some killer advice,” Hughes says from her new home in Los Angeles, where she has been busy recording three shows for Netflix and getting ready to star in her first Hollywood feature film. “She said, ‘Just go for it. Go to America. They will love you there, and then Britain will love you afterwards.’ ”

Kaluuya, who had seen some of her early London gigs before he became a star of American films such as Get Out and Widows, told her the same thing. Opportunities are too limited at home. Or, as Hughes tweeted