S7, Ep 2: Joanne McNally, comedian and podcaster

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Joining Grace this week is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed comics and host of the award-winning podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me, Joanne McNally. With a number of sell-out shows and tour dates in the US later this year, they discuss how Joanne uses comedy to process difficult periods in her life, how her mum is her favourite cocktail buddy, and what exactly she stole to get herself kicked out of the Scouts. Hot off her stint on the latest series of Taskmaster, and with an upcoming show at the Edinburgh festival fringe, the real question is: what is the banger of a sandwich Joanne McNally turns to whenever she’s shut off from the outside world and has a rare moment of peace?

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:05.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian. A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack
0:25.6	you cobble together when you curled upon the sofa. Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind clothes don't? behind closed door. Hi there, before we start we wanted to let you know that in this episode we discuss
0:49.9	eating disorders.
0:51.4	We have added details in the show notes for organizations who can offer support.
0:58.0	Hello friends, you have caught me extending for the third time today the cupids bow on my lips that I am
1:07.8	smearing with red lipstick one millimeterimeter higher, and I think I'm going to look like Sophie a Lorenz Doppelganger. I think that's how it works. I do this when I'm nervous, which I always am before guests arrive if I'm very honest with you.
1:26.4	I have got an especially socially awkward feeling about me today because I have been quite ill. For the last
1:35.2	week I have been lying in a darkened room, snotting. Do you know what I mean? I have not
1:41.2	been around humans unless you count those two presents from Holmes under the
1:45.4	hammer.
1:46.4	I know I'm going to act a bit weird today.
1:48.2	I need to get it together.
1:49.4	Okay and I know this is slightly too much lipstick but it's just something to do with my hands while
1:55.8	I wait excitedly for my next guest who is the gorgeous the hilarious the iconic podcaster, it's Joanne McNally. Now Joanne is one of Ireland's most acclaimed comics and host of an award winningwinning podcast my therapist ghosted me which for
2:15.9	anyone who hasn't listened started because Joanne's therapist really did ghost
2:20.8	her. Joanne and her co-host Vogue Williams tore the podcast around the world
2:26.1	and recently had an audience of 65,000 over five nights in Dublin. Her own stand-up shows have broken some records.
2:37.0	The Prosekel Express, which was on at the London Palladium, broke the record for the most alcohol sold in one evening at the venue.
2:47.1	And now you'll find Joanne on the telebox on this season of Taskmaster.
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