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Star of Miranda and Bridget Jones Sally Phillips sure knows how to make us laugh. Her effortlessly funny, easy-breezy and light-hearted characters can often leave us wishing we could be a little more like them and not take ourselves too seriously. After all, life is about having fun, right?

Ahead of Sally's new radio show Talking To Strangers, which she wrote with Lily Bevan for BBC Radio 4, we asked the comedian to shed some light on how we can be funnier, less serious and just a little bit more silly day to day.

How would you suggest women let go and take themselves less seriously?

First, it is important for women to realise that there are many situations where we have the opposite problem - we don't take ourselves seriously enough. In the workplace or at home, women often undervalue themselves but actually they are worth more than they think - they don't ask for pay rises and they accept raw deals like a man not treating them nicely. That said, there are also times when we need to let go and take ourselves less seriously. These are my tips…

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1. Keep laughing, no matter what happens.
If you find you can't make yourself laugh - do what I do as Tilly in Miranda - expel all the air from your lungs and then say 'huh huh huh huh' without breathing in. Eventually it becomes a laugh and it seems to make people around you laugh too. It all gets genuine very quickly.

2. Enjoy your flaws and failures. You may as well.
I am currently working in LA – the town of the perfect body, face and head. I woke up on day one with a very itchy scalp and I had to admit that there was a strong possibility that I had nits - oh the shame. But the hilarity on Facebook! 200 likes in an hour.

3. Don't give yourself too hard a time about your appearance.
That way madness lies.

4. You can't please all of the people all of the time.
Accept them, don't try to fix them - unless it's by giving them cake.

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5. Everything in moderation all the time is a bit dull.
Excess, just occasionally is good for the soul – but if you video it, don't put it online until you're sober.

6. Be really silly at least once a day
If you are worn down by responsibilities, caring for people and so on, I recommend pretending to be any of the Muppets, preferably Miss Piggy or the Swedish chef. Do not explain to others what you are doing. Keep a straight face if at all possible as if this is just how you talk all the time.

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Me and my on-screen-daughter, Lily James, at the LA premiere of Pride, Prejudice And Zombies.

How to be silly, according to Sally Phillips...

1. Go to the library and ask for a book on how to read.

2. When the money comes out of the cashpoint, run around screaming 'I won! I won!".

3. Buy an ice-cream, ask the ice-cream man if he still believes in unicorns and then smash the ice-cream cone on to your forehead, maintaining eye contact and looking at him suggestively.

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4. Buy false eyelashes and wear them as a moustache or stick them to the inside of your nose and give yourself a point for every person that stares.

5. Grow out your pubic hair, dye it funny colours and then go swimming. Get a friend to film people's reactions as you walk past.

6. Go sledging without a sledge at least once.

7. Do something that absolutely terrifies you with your friends and film each other. Put on YouTube.

8. Make yourself a bikini out of duct tape.

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Me and my friend Lucy Cooke (National Geographic Explorer) on Venice Beach.

What inspires you to be funny?

I love the absurdity of real life. Six or seven times a day I notice something that I think is a bit odd and mentally log it. If I'm still thinking about it next time I write a script, it'll go in. Today, someone said 'Turmeric tea. It's the new kale,' which was ridiculous, of course.

What's guaranteed to always make you laugh?

My children always make me laugh. I know I'm biased but they are so funny. I think I thought, before I had them, that comedy was something that anyone could learn – then I had my boys and went, 'Ah no. I see now. It's all genetic'.

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My son, and natural born clown.

Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan's new radio show, Talking To Strangers, is on BBC Radio 4 from 4 February.

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