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Word of Mouth: Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie

Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie

Comedian Isy Suttie on how she writes comedy

Isy Suttie is an actor and comedian best known for her role in Peepshow and her one woman show Love Letters on Radio 4 as well as many other shows and podcasts.  Here she talks to Michael Rosen about writing her comedy and what informs it.  She grew up in Matlock in Derbyshire and a deep love as well of knowledge of the place and its people find their way into her humour.  Words ending in consonants too are much funnier than those ending in a vowel she says. And as for learning Welsh to impress her partner her song written to show off her language skills to him is a linguistic masterpiece!

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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