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Perfect Day with Jessica Knappett

EP 38: Kate Barron

Perfect Day with Jessica Knappett

Keep It Light Media / Jessica Knappett

Comedy

4.7533 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Fantastically funny Canadian comedian Kate Barron joins Jess this week to share her ultra indulgent, super relaxing perfect day. Sell-professed “mall rat”, Kate also confesses her obsession with Labubus, GAIL’s, and talks her past life as an art dealer and the differences between the Canadian and UK comedy scenes. Like and subscribe for brand-new episodes every Thursday. Follow us on Instagram @perfectdaycast. And, why not get in touch? Email us at everydayaperfectday@gmail.com A Keep It Light Media Production Sales and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right then.

0:13.9

And then all of a sudden Idrasal walks in my room and he goes, want to fuck?

0:19.3

Hello perfect deyes. I'm Jessica Knappitt and you are my Roman Empire.

0:26.3

Welcome to Perfect Day. It's been sunny. I hope you've been having some perfect days this week.

0:34.3

Or at least some moments of perfect dayness in otherwise imperfect days.

0:41.6

Because, you know, the world is quite hard at the moment, isn't it? It's hard. But there are

0:49.0

always lovely things like trees and Brit Pop and Canadian comedians.

1:00.0

Like my guest today, Segway, the brilliantly bold and brutally funny Kate Barron.

1:08.7

She is a Canadian comedian who's living in the UK and has taken the UK comedy

1:14.6

scene frankly by Storm. And we have a delightful chat about, among other things, her former life as

1:22.6

an art dealer. Love that. We all contain multitudes. We talk the politics, the pretensions and everything

1:32.4

in between in the art world. She talks about making the leap into stand-up in the UK and her

1:39.0

spiritual devotion to Gail's bakery. I get it. Also her formative years as a self-confessed mall rat and her current

1:47.2

hyperfixation with the deeply weird, deeply adorable, but sort of also quite appalling world of

1:54.3

Laboooo-boo figures. I hope I'm saying that right. If I'm not, I don't care. Should we crack on?

2:00.8

This is the lovely Kate Barron's

2:04.5

perfect day. Like you're a psychopath. Go to therapy.

2:22.0

Alright. All right, then.

2:25.7

So you're in London.

2:27.1

I am in London, yes.

2:30.3

You are a Canadian comedian based in London.

2:31.1

Yes.

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