Rosie Holt on being a Twitter comic, women in media and why we should laugh at things that make us angry
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Channel 4 News
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Rosie Holt has become famous on Twitter, where she reinvented herself via satirical videos; A conversative MP and right-wing activist who many mistake for being real.
In this episode Rosie joins Krishnan to discuss life as a social media sensation, women in media and why we should laugh at things that make us angry.
Produced by: Imahn Robertson
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| 0:00.0 | Helo and welcome to ways to change the world. I'm Christian Gary Murphy and this is the podcast |
| 0:07.4 | in which we talk to extraordinary people about the big ideas and their lives and the events |
| 0:10.9 | that have helped shape them. We are in a small comedy club around the corner from Channel 4 News |
| 0:16.9 | today because my guest on this week's show is an emerging stars. She's become really famous |
| 0:23.2 | on Twitter largely through lockdown as a Conservative MP and right-wing activist who many people |
| 0:30.1 | mistake for really being a Conservative MP or right-wing activist but she is in fact |
| 0:34.8 | Rosie Holt. Welcome to the podcast. Hello. |
| 0:41.1 | Now look you've become huge over the last couple of years suddenly and yeah unexpectedly |
| 0:45.3 | I would imagine. Yeah. Because really you're an actor. Yeah. So how did this happen? Well lockdown |
| 0:50.8 | happened really so before that I was about to go on tour. I was about to go do a six month tour |
| 0:54.8 | in America of a comedy show called The Crown Jewel which was a parody of Netflix, The Crown |
| 1:00.1 | and it was me and one other actor playing all the parts and then lockdown happened so that |
| 1:05.2 | put a stop to that and then like everyone I was at home kind of straighted and not doing anything |
| 1:12.0 | and it was during lockdown run it was the the Black Lives Matter protests and Cedete Khan had |
| 1:18.4 | posted that they were taking down a statue of Robert Milligan and there was a lot of very angry |
| 1:22.6 | comments saying you're ruining democracy or a raising history and I was reading this and I was |
| 1:28.4 | sort of both kind of amused and slightly surprised about how angry people were about this and |
| 1:34.3 | the next day I put up a video pretending to be a woman who was saying these statues being taken |
| 1:38.8 | down as terrible they're a raising history just like Stalin did who incidentally I have a statue |
| 1:43.9 | of in my garden and it went viral and people thought it was real and told me to take my statue |
| 1:49.2 | of Stalin out of my front garden and how did it go viral because you know there will be people |
| 1:55.2 | creators all the time who are trying to think who are trying to make something yeah go viral like |
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