Jamie MacDonald: Life On The Blink

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this second series, blind stand-up comedian Jamie Macdonald playfully deconstructs some of the pre-conceptions of his disability, challenges stereotypes and takes a hilarious trip down memory lane to see how far things have come. He tells his side of the Have I Got News for You story that needlessly outraged half of social media, and he shows that, even in hospital, the best of intentions can be misguided. Written by Jamie MacDonald Script guidance from Laura Lexx Produced by Julia Sutherland A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hi, I'm Athenica Venue and welcome to Comedy of the Week from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.0	your weekly prescription of feel-good funnies to lift the spirits. Enjoy the show!
0:15.5	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:26.5	Sight.
0:29.9	What is it good for?
0:33.9	Absolutely everything is at its end, right?
0:37.7	Actually, even a little bit goes a long way because it's not foretold
0:42.3	that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
0:46.3	That said, in the land of the sighted, he's just a bloke with an eye patch.
0:49.3	LAUGHTER
0:51.3	And when you don't have sight, you have to rely on your other four senses,
0:56.3	like which are good, some say in hand,
0:59.3	but when they do sometimes miss, they're sighted sibling.
1:02.3	It's lucky I'm not a racist.
1:04.3	LAUGHTER
1:06.3	I'll be shit at it.
1:08.3	LAUGHTER
1:13.3	I literally cannot judge a book by its cover.
1:16.3	LAUGHTER
1:18.3	If I wanted to judge something, I've got to go on soon.
1:22.3	No, something reliable.
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