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Aug 6, 2022 · Born in Dagenham in 1981 and raised in Romford, Sara Pascoe is one of the UK’s leading standup comedians. Known for weaving whimsical comedy into routines about science and politics, she...
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Dec 20, 2020 · Michael Hogan. The comedian on playing board games with her sister, being overcompetitive – and the link between feminism and quizzing. Sara Pascoe kicks off the Observer’s quiz of the year ...
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May 1, 2016 · By Susan Swarbrick. Share. Comedian Sara Pascoe lays bare her life in Animal, an autobiographical feminist romp through biology and evolutionary history. Picture: Dave Brown. PEERING inside the...
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The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood I’m 39, don’t have any children, and this is the first time I’ve read anything about motherhood that didn’t bore me. It’s a memoir and I actually found the accidental pregnancy that Heawood describes so viscerally really aspirational. She goes into great detail. She likens the birth to being high in a club with ...
I heard about this because it won the best true crime podcast at this year’s British podcast awards. It’s about an almost 40-year-old case of two backpackers from Manchester who turn up drowned in Guatemala after helping someone move a yacht. It looks at why the guy who was eventually charged with murdering them [Silas Duane Boston] wasn’t found un...
This is about legalised slavery via the incarceration system in America. Much of it is so shocking that it doesn’t feel like it could be true. I always knew that the American prison system was bad, but it’s so bad that it stayed in my peripheral vision, because I couldn’t absorb that this is how the world has been structurally built. You almost thi...
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld This novel about Hillary and Bill Clinton is astonishing. It’s imaginary, but Curtis Sittenfeld has obviously done huge amounts of research on Hillary. She really makes you fall in love with Bill, who is so charismatic – a Yale student with a beard. When he started to cheat, it felt like I’d been punched in the heart. Bi...
Abandoman Abandoman is a famous Edinburgh comedian who sells out shows. He does improvised hip-hop, and early in lockdown he started doing nightly shows on Instagram. The first time I watched it, it was like a party – you saw him taking suggestions and the music was great. It just cheered me up so much. He’s moved it over to Twitch now and it’s fre...
I May Destroy You, BBC One Michaela Coel has made something so timely. It’s not purely comedy and it’s not purely drama. I think it’s genre-breaking, and a real debate about consent. It’s a mystery in which the viewer knows as much as the central character, who is a writer. One night, she goes out drinking, but there’s this sense that we’ve missed ...
Feb 22, 2017 · Stand -Up comedian and actress Sara Pascoe on the woman who helped her survive, in more ways than one ... I grew up in Romford, a 20-minute ramble from Hollywood nightclub (famous because Martine ...
Sep 21, 2023 · Before Sara Pascoe wrote her debut novel, she knew two things. “I knew I wanted my main character to have haemorrhoids. And I knew I wanted her to have a period. A realistic one,” the stand-up ...
Jun 1, 2016 · By Linda Geddes. 1 June 2016. Comic timing: comedian Sara Pascoe wonders about women. Francesco Guidicini / The Sunday Times. WHEN Sara Pascoe does her job, she is referred to as a “female...
