Sara Pascoe

She's also appeared in Peep Show, Changing Ends, and, appropriate for us, The Snail and the Whale.

She is the author of the Times bestseller You Are Not Alone, created from her multiple award-winning podcast Griefcast, and in 2024 launched the Weirdos Book Club podcast with Sarah Pascoe.

Hello, Cariad.

Hello, Rachel.

I was also very into plays.

I managed to steer my degree into drama.

I wish someone had said, why don't you just try Pride and Prejudice and see how you go? You met Sarah Pascoe.

Yes, at Sussex.

So you can just go around doing five minutes a night.

and learning through trial and error I had a lot of you know people that I started out with like Joshua mentioned earlier but like you know it's like Sarah Pascoe and Nish Kumar Joel Domet was a big one me and Joel would always be like talking about stand-up and what we had learned that week basically of like okay this works why does that work and and it would always be in your head for a long time And then you had to sit down, maybe when you're writing your first hour-long solo show, and actually write it all down and see it on the page and then be able to visualize a little bit more stuff like callbacks or running jokes or whatever and be like, okay, this is how I'm going to join this whole show together and all these different routines together and make them make sense.

fantastic obviously track nine now potentially has absolutely nothing to do with all that we've just discussed for the last couple of minutes um what's the last song that you listened to

yeah new muscles by mary in the junkyard it's probably still i think this is my favorite song of the year um mary in the junkyard if they are listening to this will know what they've done with this song so they'll know that they're going to trick some people with this song because it was a single and And it sounds like nothing else on the whole album.

Like what? There's a bunch of British comedy specials by people I want to see, but I can't find them anywhere.

So one's called Lads, Lads, Lads by Sarah Pascoe.

You were pretty close with that bloody, bloody, bloody.

Bloody, bloody, bloody,

I have not concocted an Irish-specific firstborn daughter book, but it's no coincidence that the female comedians, Joanne McNally, firstborn daughter, the female comedians are all firstborn daughters.

Amy Schumer, Nikki Glaser, Wanda Sykes, of course, the aforementioned Aisling Bea, who's wonderful, Sarah Pascoe.

It's a very female comedian trait, apparently, because we're not afraid to stand out from the crowd.

We're very resilient.