The Importance of Looking Good on TV

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There are more female comics on TV than ever before but they are almost all myself excluded. A lot of them are very attractive women and I don't want to take that away from their comedy. If you've got two women equally good at comedy and one of them is hotter than the other one the hotter ones getting on telly that's just the way it is. There're programs for clever boys and pretty girls because the girls are all clever and funny as well but they also have to be pretty to earn their place whereas the boys can just be funny and clever you know so they have to tick two bucks.

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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