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Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen & Suzi Ruffell

Comedy

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Comedians and dearest pals Tom Allen and Suzi Ruffell chat friendship, love, life and culture....sometimes....

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0:00.0	How do you know if you're worrying too much? How can you mend a broken heart? Does peaking at school
0:05.1	ruin you for life? I'm Susie Ruffle, a stand-up comedian, and someone who has always experienced
0:12.0	anxiety. And I've written a book. Am I having fun now? Considering some of life's big questions,
0:18.4	featuring bonus insights from the likes of Charlene Douglas, Sarah Pascoe, Elizabeth Day and Dolly Auditon.
0:24.6	Am I Having Fun Now? Is out now in with me, Susie Ruffle.
0:51.3	And me, Tom Allen.
0:52.7	Susie, are you doing it in that style? Because, of course, you've just been on the breakfast, the BBC breakfasts. No, I wasn't. I was just sort of, I sometimes try and do something a bit different. I like to give you options. That's the thing with you, Susie. You're always giving us options. I love that. I'm always giving options. Yeah. I'm doing a lot of self-tapes. Oh. Oh. It's that. I mean, I've got any of the jobs. It's important to point out. Not yet, but, well, that's the thing, isn't it? And self-tapes, they're like auditions, aren't they? Well, yes, there are auditions that you have to record on your phone. Oh, yeah. Do you think the phone is better than iPad?
1:29.9	I don't have an iPad. Oh, what do you... Oh, what do you... Yeah. My phone is good. Oh, that's good. Would you like me to take you through what I do? I do it on my phone and then I air drop it to my Mac. And then I send it on. And then you send it on, but you don't record it on, say, the Mac's, what's it called camera, yeah.
1:45.8	No, I tell you for why, because often I have to sort of... And then I send it on. And then you send it on, but you don't record it on, say, the max, what's it called camera?
1:45.3	Yeah.
1:45.8	No, I tell you for why, because often I have to sort of have the script there as a reference point. I get it. I get it. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. And then I send it over to Katie Helps, friend of the show. Oh, thank you, Katie. Thank you, KJ. Oh, great. And away it goes.
2:01.9	And away it goes.
2:02.6	But it's a great way to test a marriage.
2:06.7	Really?
2:07.4	What, getting your partner to do the reading with you?
2:11.1	Yes, I can imagine.
2:12.7	Because Alice is many things.
2:15.0	She is a wonderful partner.
2:16.2	She's a wonderful mom.
2:17.8	She is great at cooking. She's very wonderful mom. She is great at cooking.
2:19.7	She's very good at her job.
2:21.2	She's very funny.
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