How to Procrastinate Writing Comedies

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The tyranny of a blank screen is the worst thing in the world. I think we need our own podcast to like advise wayward writers and comedians definitely what I need is more ways to procrastinate from actually writing comedies so let's do that though oh no no you don't do it like that go and do some washing up absolutely reallyOh that was so much fun and that's all from us today thank you so much to Angela Barnes for such a frank and fascinating conversation hopefully she'll be back on tour soon. The wintering sessions is produced by buddy piece who also composed the original title musicyou can buy wintering the power of rest and retreat in difficult times in all good book

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Angela Barnes, podcaster, comedian and regular panel guest on Mock The Week (and much more!).

Angela Barnes has zero tolerance for anyone reassuring her that she's pretty - it talks over her lived experience, and does nothing to change her self-perception. Here, she discusses living with Persistent Depressive Disorder, which has made her whole life feel like the drizzly English climate, but which has also made her more able than most to endure the hard-knocks life of a stand-up comedian.

A very cheerful chat which always zeroes in on the important points with lazer focus, picking up on where Angela is in the greater pandemic situation, working with her PDD, building daily frameworks, having a comedy tribe which normalizes certain behaviours and actions, fear of rejection, CBT, entitlement, TV, the perils and - well, perils of social media, and the notion of beauty on a grand scale.

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