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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Christina Walkinshaw - Long-distance friends, hooch and the joy of sleeping alone

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Canadian comedian Christina Walkinshaw about long-distance friends, working at the Yuk Yuk’s comedy chain, fan mail, being punished by the universe and getting glued back together, Michelle Branch, the negative consequences of hooch, being successful 'enough', polyamory and being happily single, jealousy and insecurity, getting 'Canadian drunk', the joy of sleeping alone, the aftermath of after-parties, horoscopes, looking for patterns, stage superstitions, comedy tricks, feminism, going viral, standing up for yourself, being talked about, stage fright, a love of boy bands and 'normal' life.


Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Bailey Lenart

Produced by Sarah Garvey

A huge thanks to Phoenix Artist Club in London for letting me record my podcast and do my shows with them. Special thanks to Peter Dunbar.

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0:00.0

It was funny, so my last relationship and I started a blog about it, which I know sounds like,

0:04.4

oh yeah, you have the post with the bug.

0:06.7

I know, you can just leave your private life alone, could you?

0:09.6

You had to put it on the internet.

0:11.7

Oh my god, I just smoothed your microphone. I'm sorry. You've

0:14.9

shared the saliva of many comedians. My God. Get the purer out.

0:18.7

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:25.0

We're all made of human.

0:30.0

You are listening to the Made of Human podcast. I'm Sophie Hagen. I'm your host. I'm a Danish stand-up comedian that should hopefully explain the accent and the massive amounts of insecurity.

0:42.8

Thank you for listening to this episode.

0:44.8

I'm very excited about you meeting Christina Walkinshaw.

0:48.2

I've been aware of her now for, I guess, a little over six years since I moved in with a Canadian comedian in London when I first moved over.

0:56.0

He told me about her and then I now she's on my podcast.

1:01.0

It's so strange because I just I feel like I've been aware of her for so long and I don't know she was just always like a Canadian comedian and then in my head back then I never thought that people could travel

1:16.8

over the ocean. So it's all very surreal to have met her in Edinburgh and for her to have done the podcast and I'm so excited for you to hear about all the stuff that we talk about.

1:26.2

She's an incredibly interesting and very very funny woman.

1:30.2

So also, mm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-a like, oh when it comes to, you know, being a, just, because we've talked a lot about resistance on this

1:40.8

podcast before and kind of fighting against the system and stuff and oh she's I mean she's spot on

1:48.5

She's exactly what we like so before that you listen to the actual episode. I want to quickly make a few announcements.

1:55.0

I'm back in London now. I've spent a week in Denmark and I spent a month at the

2:00.0

Emperor Fringe Festival and thank you to everyone who came to see the shows I've done. It's so exciting.

2:08.0

I got to do a few work in progress shows for my show for next year and I'm already very much in love

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