Comedian Harriet Dyer - Mental health, bereavement and being a weirdo
Who Hurt You?
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Harriet Dyer about making comedy from mental health issues, childhood abuse, bereavement, being bipolar, creating community, (literally) thinking she was Kat Slater from Eastenders, establishing boundaries, having a lovely homelife and sea-monkeys.
Trigger warning (Please note some of the language is visceral and descriptive) – child sexual abuse, rape, kidnapping, violence against children, drug use, death, alcohol use, dentist, suicide, bereavement, suicidal ideation, addiction, death, sectioning, medication, bipolar, violence against pets, stalking, mental health issues, abuse, gaslighting, sex.
Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering
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| 0:00.0 | Like most of us comedians I just make it a joke. I did this Q&A a while ago for this mental health thing and this girl said that she thought people were dicks because when she told them her problems they didn't react in the way that she thought they should have but then |
| 0:14.5 | she realized after therapy and stuff that it was because she was making light of |
| 0:18.3 | it so they didn't realize that it was as much of an issue and I think on the |
| 0:21.8 | whole because I've always made light out of it. |
| 0:23.6 | I think people just haven't realized and just thought, oh, she's just telling the story. |
| 0:27.6 | You are listening to Made of Human also known as the old part, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, who is a Danish comedian. |
| 0:38.4 | Mop! Trying to find out how to do life. |
| 0:44.0 | But it turns out. |
| 0:48.0 | Nobody knows. |
| 0:50.0 | Mop. |
| 0:52.0 | No. No. I am sitting in a hotel room in Manchester. |
| 0:59.0 | Before Harriet Dyer, the guest came to my hotel room. I just wanted to move a table from the wall and into |
| 1:06.4 | the center of the room so that we had a table to record by. Turns out, wasn't really a table, it was more like a weird kind of shelf that was actually stuck to a bit of the wall. |
| 1:17.0 | So as I tried to move it out, I tore down a piece of the wall and broke the hotel room. so I feel like now I'm a proper rock star and I don't know what to do I think I'm going to have to go and speak to them |
| 1:30.0 | and apologize for ruining the hotel room. |
| 1:33.0 | So Harriet Daya came by, she just left, |
| 1:35.8 | and I want to get this out to you immediately |
| 1:39.5 | because I've been behind, and I know you can, I haven't even announced it anywhere, I've not behind and I know you can I haven't even announced it anyway I've not even |
| 1:44.7 | tweeted about it I've not even I wish I wasn't this behind I'm telling you it will |
| 1:52.2 | get back on track it will become every Wednesday again everything will be good I am trying I'm fighting really how to get it all to function and I mean that so like just now speaking to Harriet I was like |
| 2:07.1 | oh I love this so much like this gives me so much joy it's not something I ever want to not do so |
| 2:16.7 | it's because I lost four episodes because I lost four episodes |
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