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S9, Ep 4 How to Fail: Ruby Wax

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

CHAPTER

How to Be Funny

Sally Kohn: Alan Rickman taught me how to be funny. He took me under his wing and he worked with me for 30 years teaching me how to do comedy. So I leave the RSC. I think, Oh boy, my hot stuff. I go to New York. But it didn't work. Every time I touched anything in America, it blew up. It just exploded. And then Al, somebody really famous said, do you want to go out and have a drink? We went to a bar and I got so drunk that he just left me there. There's no easy link. Just jump, jump in there.

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