Suzi Ruffell

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866 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 15 Apr

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What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty · EP5: Suzi Ruffell · 22 Sep 2024 podcast

I love... I think kid's books are brilliant.

But the reason I mention you're writing, David, is that I have enjoyed writing it more than I thought I would.

I don't know whether you've had a similar experience, because you've done a few of them, that I...

thought this is a nice offer that i can do this thing i've written this pitch this person likes it that's a nice thing to do i'm not touring this year so i could write this thing that's the lovely thing to do but i thought the sitting down to write it would end up being like oh this bloody thing again but i've loved writing it which is really lovely and not surprising but like pleasing

Yeah, I think so.

And also the format of the book is at the end of each chapter, I talk to an expert in the field about that part of my anxiety.

So I've got a chapter on coming out and the fact that I sort of hid my sexuality for seven or eight years.

I kind of knew that I was gay, but I didn't come out.

And so I spoke to a gay guy that's also a psychologist about what shame does.

and how we can like bring shame into the light.

And so that was really helpful.

And so we spoke about all kinds of things about hiding parts of yourself, about the freedom of coming out, but then also that you sort of assume that once you've come out, it's done, but that's not really what happens because you come out all the time.

and that it gets easier and then sometimes it's harder and it feels different when you're doing different things and then I spoke to like Dolly Alderton about how to mend a broken heart and I spoke to Elizabeth Day about having anxiety around your career and I spoke to Laura Bates who does the Everyday Sexism project about whether getting married is inherently anti-feminist and so I spoke to like lots of different people so I formulated all these ideas but I left myself with questions because it's kind of a self-help book but I didn't want the help to be from a

fucking comedian yeah like I didn't want to be like guys I've solved it because I haven't that's like my angle is it's fuck so I'd say that I've asked all these questions and I've been sort of brutally honest in a way and it gives you more space than what you have on stage I guess if you were doing a show at the Edinburgh Festival you can take on these things that are slightly bigger and you can be slightly more artistic but because my shows always then tour I

Like, you know, the people of Warwick don't want you to excavate your soul on stage.

What they want is some stories and some gags.

So it's very difficult, unless you're someone that writes those sort of artistic shows and everyone goes because you write that.

I always write sort of, you know, stand-up, stand-up shows.

So it's been a lovely thing as well because I've just had the room to write more stuff.

Then I went to Reformer Pilates.

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