How to Reach Out to a Friend with Jack Rooke

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Have a friend going through a bad time? Feel like you don’t know what to do or say? Stevie and Tessa talk to comedian, writer, presenter and author of upcoming book Cheer The F**K Up Jack Rooke to find out how to do more than just nervously ask them if they are ok every four seconds, and actually be supportive.

Follow Jack Rooke on Twitter: @jackrooke and Instagram: @jackdaverooke

Jack's book Cheer The F**K Up is out on the 30th July - pre-order it here.

Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive Productions.

Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:13.2	welcome to Nobody Panic with me Stevie and me Tessa and today joining us we have a new
0:19.8	celebrity guest.
0:21.3	Do do do joining us Celebrity Guest. Do da da da da.
0:23.0	Joining...
0:24.0	It's this... Steve is bought a horn, guys.
0:28.0	And she's insisting on calling it a Celebrity Guest.
0:31.0	Now joining us today on the Graham Norton sofa, it's author, writer, poet, comedian.
0:37.0	Lover.
0:38.0	Lover, revolutionist, fashion, fat gay, jackrup.
0:45.0	You know the other day I got interviewed
0:48.8	onto this comedy central thing, and the first line they did,
0:51.6	they said, they called me a self-confessed fat gay.
0:54.7	How could I be? I'm not, it's not a confession. I'm not confessing.
0:59.9	Jack Rook, absolute legend with a book out, 30th of July.
1:04.0	That's Harry Potter's birthday.
1:06.0	No big deal.
1:07.0	Is it really?
1:08.0	I believe so, yeah.
1:09.0	The reason that we're doing this episode,
1:10.0	how to reach out to a friend is because that is all about what your book's about isn't it?
1:15.6	Yes so the book it's the book is basically a kind of comedic memoir meets
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