Can you have a successful comedy career and a balanced family life?
Comedian and writer Sara Pascoe joins Romesh Ranganathan to talk about touring, parenting and why stand-up comedy can make balancing family life surprisingly difficult.
They get into Sara's early beginnings in comedy, wanting to be an actor and how the stand-up landscape has changed over the years. Expect stories of people pleasing in the entertainment industry, Sara's writing process (after winning the Dame Jilly Cooper Award) and her new travel series Zero Stars with Roisin Conaty, where the pair travel to some of the worst-rated holiday destinations in Europe including a chaotic cruise and a trip to Albania.
Plus: roast potato cooking tips, Sara’s “Dragon’s Den” business idea, a question from Shanthi and as always a round of Misquoted.
A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:00 Selling out tours
00:00 Dealing with criticism
04:58 A gift for Sara
06:10 Roast potatoes and cooking tips
09:40 Sara’s comedy beginnings
12:04 The changing nature of the comedy game
13:33 Balancing family life
20:10 A question from Shanthi about being a mum
23:09 Rom and Sara on the role of parenting
26:11 The importance of reading
29:10 Comedy chat
35:38 Sara’s Dragon’s Den Idea
36:57 Sara on winning Dame Jilly Cooper Award
40:50 Sara’s writing advice
43:06 Zero Stars the new travel show
53:35 Rom’s Albanian tattoo story
55:45 Misquoted
01:05:37 Outro
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