RHLSTP Book Club 128 - Julia Raeside
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Book Club #128 - Don’t Make Me Laugh - Richard talks to journalist Julia Raeside about her debut novel Don’t Make Me Laugh about the dark side of the comedy industry and the coercive vampiric narcissists who can inhabit it. It’s a lively chat about how comedy attracts emotionally stunted performers and emotionally vulnerable fans and the grey areas that can be created and exploited within that, the changes that have happened to the industry over the years and the problems that still persist, whether people who have been caught out should be allowed to return to the job, how women in comedy have combined to fight the problem and why that’s quite tedious for them and why it’s difficult for men to talk about this issue.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my fan friends. Welcome to another podcast. Look, we're doing live for Hullisterpers again. I'm in Leicester on the 15th of February at the Y Theatre at 2.30pm talking to John Robertson and the boys, the Donald Brothers, who created Viz. Richard Herring.com slash Rahalestapa for that and all the Londonon dates third of march is the next one uh 24th of march |
| 0:22.1 | we've got paul white house that's very nearly sold out and then there's one in april as well and we're |
| 0:26.3 | doing the edinburgh fringe with the rhalestapa as well there'll be more details of that coming up |
| 0:29.9 | very soon uh i'm also not eating saleros in the month of february um I've eaten a salero pretty much every day for the last 10 years. |
| 0:38.2 | I've decided to give them up to raise some money for scope. I'm four days in and it's living hell. |
| 0:43.5 | Please sponsor me at justgiving.com slash page slash no lairo, no, L-E-R-O. Give whatever you can. |
| 0:51.9 | 23 pound 33 is the amount I spend on Saleros every month. |
| 0:55.4 | That's my suggested donation. |
| 0:57.3 | All that money will go to scope. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm trying to raise 500,000 pounds. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm currently nought percent of my way to the target. |
| 1:03.5 | Anyway, sit back, relax, and enjoy listening to another stupid podcast. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome to another Rahalistma Book Club. This week we are looking at Don't Make |
| 1:13.6 | Me Laugh, the story of my life by Julia Rayside. Thankfully, it's not the story of my life. |
| 1:19.7 | I hate it to Ed. And Julia's with us now. Hello, Julia. How are you? I'm really good. Thank |
| 1:26.2 | you. Yes. Good. Well, look, this is |
| 1:29.2 | a book about the comedy industry and it's really, obviously I'm a comedian and I |
| 1:37.0 | recognize some of the stuff in this, I have to say, but I think it's weird as a, so it's about the more seamy side of, |
| 1:47.1 | uh, |
| 1:47.2 | and the me too side, |
| 1:48.7 | I suppose it would be the quickest way of describing it. |
| 1:51.4 | Um, |
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