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Who Hurt You?

Comedian Suzi Ruffell - Dating, dyslexia and turning tragedy into funny

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Suzi Ruffell about being happy, dating, turning tragedy into comedy, putting anger into comedy, the currency of being funny, dyslexia, wanting to be a doctor, navigating school, and touring with Alan Carr.


Trigger warning – therapy, breakups, bereavement, death, homophobia, dyslexia, ADHD


Artwork by Justine McNichol

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

And then he'd sort of do a bit about the people that he'd met the day before.

0:04.4

So he'd be getting ready, go, oh, I'll tell you the fellow I met yesterday,

0:06.6

so he was Lippa Pudlion. He chalk like that. And so he'd do all the voices of people.

0:10.4

It would be like a bit that he was doing like a little skit of people.

0:13.5

I do think it's directly linked to me being like, that's great, that's funny.

0:17.4

You are listening to Made of Human, also known as the Mo-Pard, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, who is a Danish comedian.

0:28.1

Mowhod Trying to find out how to do life

0:34.0

more

0:35.0

but it turns out nobody knows

0:40.0

mau

0:41.0

no I am recording this intro not too long after I recorded last week's intro because I'm procrastinating

0:51.8

I'm meant to be writing an article for a newspaper and I don't want to.

0:58.0

It's an annoying article to write.

1:01.0

It's one again one where I have to sort of defend my right to not be

1:06.7

abused as a fat person and you know where do you even start you know why do you start?

1:11.2

So many people are going to be reading it going but

1:13.8

but it's bad to be fat so it's like every article you write about that sort of stuff you have to start by going

1:19.1

right first of all it's okay to be fat and blah blah and it's just tiring I mean to be honest you

1:26.8

foreign for an activist which in theory I guess I am I sure hate to activist I really hate to activist I don't think it's fun

1:38.5

what is fun though is speaking to Susie Ruffle she she should have, of course, without a doubt,

1:45.0

Suzy Ruffel should have been on this podcast years ago.

1:48.0

And I was trying to figure out why she hadn't.

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