[3] Other television work includes playing ‘Miss Adventure’ in the second season of the CBBC show School of Silence.

In 2017 Calman was a contestant on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing alongside professional dancer Kevin Clifton, finishing in 7th place.

In 2020, she presented the BBC Two cookery challenge show Great British Menu, before being replaced by Andi Oliver in 2021.

[7] During her seven-year career in corporate law, she gradually became dissatisfied with working as a specialist in freedom of information and data protection and developed her stand-up comedy in the evenings, eventually giving up her job with Dundas & Wilson to develop her career in comedy.

[7] Calman was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow in 2018; she was honoured for her work in broadcasting and comedy, as well as campaigning on issues related to LGBT rights and mental health.

[8] Calman reached the semi-finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2005 and was a finalist in the Funny Women competition in 2006.

In 2013, Calman wrote about receiving online abuse after joking about the Scottish independence referendum on the Radio 4 satirical comedy programme The News Quiz, including accusations of betraying her country, and of being "racist" towards other Scots.

[18] In May 2016, Calman published her first book, entitled Cheer Up Love: Adventures in depression with the Crab of Hate.

[24] Her father was chancellor of the University of Glasgow and former chief medical officer for Scotland, then England and Wales.

Glasgow is a lovely city, but when I was growing up there was one lesbian bar, and there was a club for men, but there was no internet, there was no way of finding out [about other people].

"[26] The Times commented in 2009 that Calman's "status as a diminutive lesbian — she is 4ft 11in — gives a certain grist to her mill but, her Hobbit-like stature aside, what strikes you about her is her chirpy, optimistic level-headedness.