‘Bake Off was stressful’ Funny woman Morgana Robinson on the challenge of doing both Mel and Sue and getting judge Mary Berry to talk dirty

Morgana Robinson’s new seven-part mockumentary series sees her play the entire client list of a fictional talent agency. Here’s what she thinks of her celebrity impressions and the whole fame game…

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MORGANA ON...MEL AND SUE

'I just loved the concept of doing both of them. They’re so different. We had this lovely girl who was my body double, bless her, who never got to be in it. You just see the back of her shoulder, the poor love. And she was so brilliant. So we filmed me as Mel in the morning and then me as Sue in the afternoon. That’s what we did for a whole week. Mel’s so much easier for me to do than Sue. To be honest, I think my Sue impression’s pretty whack but it’s funny, so who cares?'

MORGANA ON... BAKE OFF

'Doing The Great Sport Relief Bake Off earlier this year was stressful. No one tells you. It’s worse than any work you’ve ever done ever – baking a cake in front of everyone. It was me, Will Young, Alison Steadman and Ade Edmondson. I’ve never seen competition like it. It’s fraught with danger. Everyone’s knees were knocking – for a f***ing cake show! Who would have thunk it? By the afternoon of the second day you start to enjoy it. Mary Berry’s so lovely. I had a leak in my pie and I told her Ade Edmondson had drilled a glory hole in it. Mary asked: ‘What’s a glory hole?’ But they cut all the naughty bits out.'

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MORGANA ON... JOANNA LUMLEY

'With Joanna Lumley the mundane is fantastical. So for the new series we just took the p*** out of that as much as possible. I spent a whole month ‘learning’ her, if that’s the best way to describe it. We filmed the pilot and then I was going straight onto David Walliams and Friend (last Christmas) but they don’t tell you who the Friend is and in walks Joanna: ‘Hello Darling, oh you beautiful girl’ She’s so lovely about everybody. The whole week we were filming I thought: ‘When am I gonna tell her?’ We’d be sitting in the make-up chair talking about everything. In the end I literally left it till about 30 seconds before we wrapped: ‘Just to let you know, I do an impression of you in my next show. Bye!’ She said such a sweet thing. She said: ‘Oh darling, I bet you do me better than I do me.’ She was such an angel. She is annoyingly perfect!'

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MORGANA ON... MIRANDA HART

'We struggled with Miranda for a long time – where would her home be? My favourite one in the show is when she ends up in Game of Thrones. Everyone else in the cast has been killed off so there’s literally no one else left in the country to act in it. She’s playing Tall Peasant 2. It all goes terribly wrong. That was my favourite day of filming. We did two hours of filming and then I realised I didn’t have my teeth in! Then there’s prosthetics up to the nose but her forehead is mine.'

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MORGANA ON... ADELE

'I think as an impression she’s come along since VIP. It was more caricature then. This feels more real. Has she seen it? She’s way too famous to give a s*** about little old me. I know she’s friends with Alan Carr and Alan told me that he told her and she just went: ‘yeahh.’ Basically meaning: ‘Who gives a f***?!’ I love her. That’s what I love about her – her attitude.'

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MORGANA ON... NATALIE CASSIDY

'I would love to film as Nat Cass at EastEnders. Maybe for Red Nose Day? I’d love to meet her. She did an impression of my impression on Big Brother’s Little Brother: ‘Natalie Cassidy Doin’ Stuff’. She was sweeping up backstage at Elstree. So she’s a fan. She’s so selfless and without ego. She did a really heart-breaking show called Becoming Mum after she had her baby and about her relationship with her dad which was really lovely. I haven’t told anyone else this - there’s a whole episode which is just Nat Cass. It’s a sitcom. It’s heart-breaking. I did a cry but they cut it out because it was too sad.'

MORGANA ON... FAME

'I’m not famous. I don’t feel famous. I’m not treated as a famous person. I just get to make these shows every now and again. And every now and again somebody comes up to me and says they love my show and my weird characters. That’s enough for me. That’s lovely. But I can walk down the road and no one knows it’s me. I do Instagram but I don’t do Facebook or Twitter. I think the less time you’re sat thinking about yourself, the happier you are.'

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Morgana Robinson's The Agency Monday 10pm BBC2