Comedian Rosie Jones - Speaking slowly, perfectionism, and growing up with cerebral palsy

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Sofie Hagen

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Sofie talks to Rosie Jones about comedy, speaking slowly, using humour to diffuse awkward situations, growing up with cerebral palsy, going to the Edinburgh and Melbourne festivals, being a dickhead to Nish Kumar, perfectionism and doing crosswords while eating softmints.

Trigger warning – OCD, smoking, alcohol, cerebral palsy, shame, guilt, embarrassment, street harassment, ableism, ableist attitudes and abuse, ableist slurs, fatphobia, therapy

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0:00.0	It takes normal comedians years to find their voice, but I've been given a voice and a style
0:15.0	said a lot of the groundwork was done for me anyway.
0:20.0	For ages. done for me anyway.
0:23.6	ages I thought I can't be a comedian because I speak so slowly everyone will get to their punch land before me.
0:39.5	You are listening to made of human also known as the mole part a podcast hosted by
0:46.2	Sophie Hagen who is a Danish comedian
0:50.4	maupau trying to find out how to do life.
0:58.0	But it turns out nobody knows Mopah.
1:00.0	Nobody knows Mopah.
1:05.0	Mopah.
1:14.0	I am talking to you from my flat, which today has been completely completely rearranged all the furniture is in very different places
1:18.3	than it was this morning because of my OCD and you know what one of the worst things about having
1:25.8	OCD is I think one of the worst things is people angrily saying to you to not
1:31.6	be flippant about using the word OCD when you don't have OCD, which really sucks to hear when you have OCD.
1:39.0	Like, oh no, no, no, if I don't put my my bookcase at the other end of the room I will die and everything
1:47.0	bad is going to happen so I do think that is the very definition of O. C. D. of having to buy so much pasta because if I run out, everything's going to just fall apart. I have so much pasta because my brain is like, buy, buy more pasta, you might run out, buy more,
2:06.7	what have you run out?
2:08.0	And there's never any answer to this what if,
2:11.1	it's always what if, you know, it's always what if you run out of pasta it's never it doesn't give me an
2:17.0	answer because the answer is so what nothing happens nothing bad happens if you run out
2:22.3	of pasta you'll be fine. I have rice. It's fine.
2:24.3	You can buy more pasta when you need pasta. You can, it's fine. I mean even now I can't, I can't even say that without my brain being like no
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