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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Suzi Ruffell - ‘I didn’t know I was gay until I saw Titanic’

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this special live edition of How to Fail, Elizabeth is joined by comedian Suzi Ruffell. Suzi has performed five sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as appearing on live at the Apollo and filming an Amazon special of her show ‘Dance Like Everyone Is Watching’. She was nominated for Best standup show in the National Comedy Awards and has just written her first book ‘Am I Funny Now?’. Suzi opens up about her sexuality, her Kate Winslet obsession and talks about her totally relatable failures in this entertaining and hilarious, but moving episode.  Elizabeth and Suzi answer YOUR questions in our subscriber series, Failing with Friends from a live audience in Cardiff. Join our community of subscribers here: https://howtofail.supportingcast.fm/#content Have a failure you’re trying to work through for Elizabeth to discuss? Click here to get in touch: howtofailpod.com  Production & Post Production Coordinator: Eric Ryan   Live Sound Engineer: Will Kontargyris Studio & Sound Engineer: Matias Torres Assistant Producer: Suhaar Ali Senior Producer: Hannah Talbot Executive Producer: Carly Maile How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production.   Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.6

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0:22.1

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0:25.7

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0:31.9

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0:44.4

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0:55.9

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1:01.0

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1:17.3

Welcome back to How to Fail and if you're new here, welcome.

1:24.0

This episode with the hilarious Susie Ruffle was recorded live at New Theatre in Cardiff.

1:24.7

Enjoy.

1:39.3

Hello, Cardiff. Oh my goodness, it's so wonderful to be here. Thank you, thank you for coming out to this very, very special live recording of How to Fail presented by our friends at Hey You. It is a delight to be in Wales. It really, really is. Thank you for the warm welcome.

1:45.6

And my guest tonight is the comedian and writer Susie Ruffle.

1:50.6

Growing up in Portsmouth, she struggled to fit in at school

1:53.8

and by her own admission became the class clown

1:57.0

to get people to like her.

1:59.0

On screen, her heroines were Victoria Wood, Catherine Tate,

2:03.3

and French and Saunders. But it wasn't until she attended drama school in London that she first

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