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Kay Clark

Kay Clark
character
Tracey Ullman as Kay Clark.jpg
First appearance Saturday Live
Created by Tracey Ullman
Portrayed by Tracey Ullman
Information
Gender Female
Occupation Paper products distribution
Bank teller
Family Mildred (mother)
Father (deceased)
Spouse(s) Kurt Rasmussen (deceased)
Significant other(s) Derrick (boyfriend)
Relatives Aunt Marjorie
Nationality British

For the sport shooter, see Kay Clark-Miculek

Kay Clark is a fictional character created and portrayed by actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. She is the longest character Ullman has ever portrayed, spanning over four decades and three television series. The character was born out of a sketch for a guest appearance on the British television comedy and music show Saturday Live in 1986.

Ullman says that Kay is based on a woman who worked at her bank in England. "Basically, she's forty-three, has never been touched by a man and never will be. There's always one like her in every office who sells sanitary napkins and stamps, with her nice polyester ass waddling across the room. Once, at an office party, someone got her behind the filing cabinets, and he's never lived it down. People go, 'Oh, you and Kayyy - 1982....' 'Shut up! I never did nothing with her!' I love people like that."

For the Fox show series, Kay works for a paper products distribution company, a job Ullman once held. In her HBO series, Kay was employed as a bank teller.

Kay is described an eternal optimist. "Musn't crumble, Kay." She has devoted herself to caring for her invalid mother. While she loves her mother, Kay has outbursts of hatred for her from time to time; though she's quick to scold herself for such behavior.

Kay wears clothing made from polyester, along with a pen on a string which hangs around her neck. She cuts her own hair using a ceramic kitchen bowl and scissors. Kay's mode of transportation is a moped; she is sometimes shown wearing a helmet.

Kay, a New York City paper distribution company office worker, is the constant victim of her co-workers', and even boss', taunts and pranks. Kay takes it all in stride though. She frequently checks in on her mother on the phone. "Hello, Mummy, it's (draws out) Kaaaay." We never see her mother on screen or hear her on the phone. We do know that she's an invalid. The cause of Mummy's injuries are revealed in the sketch "Kay Babysits":

Once there was a little girl about your age who was told never, never to listen to the radio. Because her mother said it was the Devil’s instrument and would give her bad thoughts. And one day, she couldn’t resist, and listened to it anyway. And she heard a weather report saying that a storm was coming. Now later, her mother discovered that the radio was warm. And she asked the little if she played it. And the little girl lied. “No,” she said. Then she saw her mummy leaving the house in a summer frock. She couldn’t tell her to take an umbrella, could she? No. Because she lied. That day, her mother got caught in the storm and came down with a cold. An illness that got progressively worse overly the next thirty years until she was a completely invalid, unable to do a single bloody thing for herself. And do you know what happened to that little girl who lied? She felt so responsible that she let her mother interfere with every aspect of her life. Until that little girl dedicated her whole self of taking care of her mother.


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