Sara Pascoe: How Self-Criticism Fuelled Her Comedy Career (E335)
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Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. I'd have set fire to anyone to get what I wanted at the beginning. I thought I'm scrabbling my way out. I am a terrier. I thought that was the only way to get ahead. The mistake I made was if they like this dog jumping at a balloon, imagine how much they're gonna like me. And they just stared at me, which is absolutely failure. There is absolutely no point. In only being good when you're winning, or only being good when everyone likes you, or only taking pleasure in the wins, and that is true for all of us. That is Sarah Pasco, best selling author, acclaimed stand up, regular star of hit comedy panel shows such as QI and Tasmaster, and also the host of the great British Sewing Bee. Look, there's no doubt she is multi-talented, hugely successful, but today Sarah sits down with me, Jake Humphrey.
And our expert Damien Hughes. to talk about so much more And just telling jokes. Yeah, very much. I was amazed by how she revealed the way she talks to herself before she walks onto a stage and
Listen out for that story she reveals about one of uh Britain's biggest comedians and how they found little joy in winning the biggest comedy award in Britain. And in many ways, Damien, that's the message from this episode, that achievements won't transform your self worth. Sarah talks about struggles at school, bombing on stage, lessons from therapy, and actually why the real stuff The stuff at home, the stuff with friends, the stuff with family. That is where happiness lies. And if you love this conversation as much as myself and Damien did, tickets to her UK and Ireland, I am a strange gloop.
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