In 2016, Sidi appeared in
James Acaster's web series
Sweet Home Lahnsteineringa alongside Jack Barry. The mockumentary received a £5,000 budget from crowdfunding and was filmed in
Lahnstein, Germany.
Stand-up Sidi was a finalist for the
NATYS: New Act of the Year Show in 2016. Her solo shows have often included Sidi playing many different characters. Sidi's
Edinburgh Festival Fringe show "Character Breakdown", in 2015, saw her play six different roles, including a feminist professor who delivers a lecture entirely in Spanish. Sidi's 2016 show, "Telenovela", included a Mexican soap opera and a European woman who dreams of a life as a
TV presenter. In 2018 her show "Faces of Grace" included an American fresh from a bizarre blind date and a tearful wannabe
Love Island contestant. There was also an aspiring nurse described as having "a clench-jawed
Katharine Hepburn style drawl". In 2024, she performed a one-woman parody
Sue Gray show,
Emma Sidi is Sue Gray, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before touring the show nationwide.
Television and radio Sidi appeared in
W1A and as Vlogger Millipede in the
BAFTA-nominated
Pls Like. Sidi's other television appearances include in
Stath Lets Flats,
Drunk History,
King Gary,
Ghosts and in
Starstruck with her real life housemate
Rose Matafeo. Sidi has also written and performed on
The Now Show. In June 2020, during the
COVID-19 pandemic, Sidi released
La Princesa de Woking, a web pilot based on a character from her 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show in which a Spanish-language soap opera is set in a British
cul-de-sac. In July 2021, she appeared as Natalie, secretary to ex-prime minister Henry Tobin, on the BBC radio comedy ''Party's Over''. Sidi competed in the eighteenth series of
Taskmaster with
Andy Zaltzman,
Babatunde Aléshé,
Jack Dee and
Rosie Jones. She won four episodes, finishing third overall behind Zaltzman and Dee. In February 2026, Sidi was announced as part of the inaugural
Saturday Night Live UK cast. ==Personal life==