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Standard Issue Podcast

Leave Juliet Cowan alone

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-five years after making the final of So You Think You're Funny, Juliet Cowan has taken her first show to the Edinburgh Fringe. She talks to Hannah about taking the estrogen goggles off, the rashness of perimenopause, returning to comedy, and her successful acting career, which has included roles in This Life, Back To Life, Back to Black and Pulling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:34.3

Hello there, it's Tuesday.

0:36.6

The news is, well, it's just horrible, so if you're looking for a good distraction,

0:41.0

you have come to the right place. Today I'm talking to the

0:45.1

actor, writer and former stand-up turned current stand-up, Juliet Cowan, about her

0:51.3

first Edinburgh show, The delightfully titled,

0:54.7

Fuck off and leave me alone.

0:57.1

Juliet was in the final of renowned comedy competition,

1:00.1

So You Think You Funny, back in 1999, but for reasons we go into in this interview, she stopped.

1:07.2

Not that she's not been busy because while her name might not ring an instant bell, her face almost certainly will, because

1:15.6

Juliet has been working incredibly consistently for the past 25 years in some really popular

1:21.7

stuff like this life, back to life, phone shop, the power and

1:27.1

everybody's favourite outrageous sitcom pulling.

1:31.2

We chat about all of that, a play which is about her mother's dementia and why, after all this time, she's giving comedy a second go.

1:40.0

Coming up later this week, we're watching the karate kid in rated or dated which Mickey loved as a kid

1:46.9

but Jen has never seen before is she a convert well you'll find out and there's more Jen on

1:52.4

Friday where she's talking about the Modern Pentathlon with

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