Sara Pascoe: New Travel Show, Life On Tour & Parenting

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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