'If I went on Question Time again, I'd shut Twitter down'
Comedian Rosie Jones seems to be everywhere these days from Casualty to QI. But as she prepares to begin her first solo stand-up tour she's also battling against her own feelings that she doesn't belong.
"I've really only been doing comedy for six years, and two of those were wiped out by a pandemic," she tellsHer tour - Triple Threat - will examine the idea of dealing with new fame and whether she actually deserves it, a topic which sees art mimic life. "I go in thinking of the comedian stereotype which I grew up with which was male, non-disabled, straight, loud and talking really quickly.Rosie has cerebral palsy. It affects her speech and walk and she says she's "constantly fighting internalised ableism".Internalised ableism, a phrase we're hearing a lot more of especially on social media, is when a disabled person absorbs the discrimination they face and think that way about themselves, too.
She says: "Every single day I get some form of ableism online or in real life and I think in order to eradicate that, in order to face the abusers I've got to come here and go 'you know what, it's not Ok'.When Rosie appeared twice on BBC One's flagship debate show, Question Time, social media lit up with seriously unpleasant comments about her which made headlines."[They were saying] that I should be in a cage, I shouldn't be on TV, I should die.
"I think Question Time is brilliant but it attracts a lot of angry people and not only being female, disabled and gay I am also, surprise, surprise, extremely Labour-leaning. So when I went onto that show and said 'here's what I think' a lot of right-wing people didn't agree with me and the easy thing to get me for was my disability.
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