Pierre Novellie (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week on Walking The Dog, Raymond and Emily are taking a stroll in London’s Finsbury Park with the extraordinarily talented comedian Pierre Novellie.
It was Pierre’s first time meeting Raymond, and although he doesn’t have a dog now - he fills us in about life growing up in Johannesburg with a guard dog who wasn’t very good at her job, and what it was like to have his parents replace him with two spaniels.
Pierre has written a brilliant book called Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things: A Comedian’s Guide To Autism - and Pierre tells us all about navigating social cues, and how he released he was different as a child.
Part Two of this conversation will be available on Thursday!
Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? is out on 18th July. Preorder your copy here!
Pierre is performing his show Why Are You Laughing? at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on 22nd June 2024 and then touring the UK and Dublin in the autumn. Find tickets and dates here: https://www.pierrenovellie.com/
Pierre co-hosts BudPod with Phil Wang - which is available on all podcast platforms!
You can listen to Emily and Raymond’s walk with Fern Brady from December 2022 here
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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence
Music: Rich Jarman
Artwork: Alice Ludlam
Photography: Karla Gowlett
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| 0:32.3 | How come everyone at Train Club has autism? |
| 0:35.3 | This is so ridiculous. |
| 0:37.2 | Everyone at the Stamp Collecting Guild. Everyone at the Club has autism. This is so ridiculous. Everyone at the stamp collecting guild. |
| 0:39.6 | Everyone at the maths club. Obviously. Come on. |
| 0:46.5 | This week on Walking the Dog, Ray and I went for a North London stroll with the hugely talented |
| 0:51.9 | comedian Pierre Novelli. Pierre is known for his celebrated stand-up shows, along with his TV and radio appearances |
| 0:59.2 | and his very popular podcast with fellow comedian Phil Wang, Bud Pod. |
| 1:03.8 | But I got to know Pierre when we co-hosted the Frank Skinner show on Absolute Radio together, |
| 1:09.1 | which sadly has come to an end. But whether he likes |
| 1:12.4 | it or not, I forced him to carry on being my friend. So we had the loveliest chat about all sorts of |
| 1:18.4 | things like working with Frank Skinner for so long and what we both learned from him. We also talked |
| 1:23.7 | about Pierre's childhood growing up in South Africa and the Isle of Man. And we touched too |
| 1:28.9 | on his autism diagnosis, which he's written all about in his soon-to-be-published book, |
| 1:33.8 | Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things? Which I personally could not have enjoyed more, because it's |
| 1:38.7 | fabulously funny and beautifully written. So do pre-order your copy now via Amazon. Pierre is a fabulous person to go for a |
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