Comedian Zoe Coombs Marr - Political comedy, gay marriage and earnestness (Live)
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Australian comedian and theatre-maker Zoë Coombs Marr about marrying "a gay dandy Tilda Swinton", political comedy, the trickiness of earnestness, lesbian separatists, a mirage-like cabin in the woods and her character Dave.
Works mentioned in this episode:
Wild Bore by Zoë Coombs Marr, Adrienne Truscott and Ursula Martinez.
Lesbian Nation by Ariel Levy in The New Yorker.
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| 0:00.0 | The idea of being married doesn't really appeal to me. I never want to be someone's wife. |
| 0:05.2 | It's not a... because it just seems like a really straight thing to do and I'm not straight. |
| 0:09.0 | So I'm like, why would I do that? My parents did that. That's for mums and dads. Not cool kids like this guy. |
| 0:20.0 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:25.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, this is Sophie Hagen and this is my podcast made of human podcast in short |
| 0:34.8 | Mopad this is a live episode the third ever recorded maybe not the third ever |
| 0:40.3 | you'll hear because that depends if we release one of them and it's a |
| 0:46.5 | podcast in which I speak to nice people about life about how to do it and how to |
| 0:50.5 | be a proper human and if they can't we'll just be less alone together. |
| 0:55.0 | I've taken that directly from one of your iTunes reviews. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll be less alone together. |
| 1:00.0 | I came up with that. |
| 1:02.0 | Just before we introduce the guest, I'm on tour at the moment. |
| 1:05.0 | I still have a few dates left in the UK and I will be in Denmark as well in February March. |
| 1:11.0 | I'll be in Copenhagen, always, uh, and Alboo. And there are still tickets left. Buy them. |
| 1:18.0 | Do you think that will work if I'm just a bit... |
| 1:21.0 | Right, oh, this is a good one so before we do this the guest today is |
| 1:26.6 | so a kum's man she's incredible but before we introduce her to the stage and |
| 1:31.0 | to the podcast we shall do this week's acts of disobedience and this |
| 1:36.7 | this listener is called Rosie and I will read it to you now. This is the best thing about a live audience. You all checked |
| 1:45.1 | is it you rosy? No, is it like 10 rosy is in here going no it's this one? I also |
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