
That's it for today!
Huge thanks to Isy and to everyone who submitted questions. Until next time!
SalvadorDarley asks:
If you got a dozen top lads from Matlock and I rounded up a dozen “faces” from Darley Dale, who’d win the resultant “off”?
Xavier Quli asks:
Hi. I think I heard you say recently on the wireless that you were dragged along to Christian holidays as a child. Has your early experience with faith had any lasting effect on you – for better or worse?
bluehamster asks:
What do you think of the never ending trend of forcing comedy through the panel show format?
hoboh2o asks:
How was working on Shameless?
Must admit I found it very funny but rather sad to watch.
Darren Gallacher asks:
Where you upset at not being a major character in the last season of Peep Show?
David Bana asks:
You sing and play the guitar. Are you professionally trained? Did you ever consider a musical career rather than musical comedy as part of your stand up?
Joe Bradbury asks:
Hi Isy, loved your routine on Alternative Comedy Experience! Do you get fed up of being rather patronisingly called a “sexy geek” online?
farmerbob asks:
Have you got any plans for another series of Love Letters? One of my favourite radio shows.
alankimble asks:
I worked with you at an Oddbins call centre years ago, which was quite fun despite it all. Do you remember that time some guy phoned to complain whilst he was in the shower? And do I remember it right that you threw up in a shoe at the Christmas party?
(it’s Theo by the way, hi!)
'I was offered £20 to get off stage at Edinburgh 2005. I haven't ever seen anything as dramatic as that, or think of anything that would come close'
Ash Preston asks:
Hi Isy, looking forward to seeing the new tour. In relation to the Edinburgh £20 memory, what’s the worst case of awkwardness or dying on stage you have seen that wasn’t yourself (you can keep names anonymous). My worst was easily making a woman cry once by doing an impression of the child catcher from Chitty Bang Bang, which I later found out the woman had been terrified of from a young age. What were the chances!
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Spluuuuurgh asks:
If you could only eat the same one main meal at dinner time for the rest of your life what would it be?
'It's all a big cauldron: acting, standup, writing, songs, radio, everything feeds into everything else'
CrazyVaclav asks:
To what extent do you feel that acting experiences have fed into your comedy and vice versa? When you perform in a stand-up comedy context, do you feel that you are sometimes consciously playing a character or a persona for example?
Also, what is your favourite joke?
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H Edge asks:
How does it feel to be (in a complimentary way) a heroine for us nerds out there? Making us feel more accepted with every Batman KAPOW acting role?
'My favourite book is The Magus by John Fowles. I've got a real love of psychological horror'
riclad asks:
What’s your favorite USA and UK TV show, and is there any TV show from your childhood that inspired you to become an actress and comedian?
Do you listen to any podcasts or follow any YouTubers?
Who is your favorite author?
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'The hardest thing about going out with a standup is that if something funny happens to you, you have to decide who gets the material'
thesulks asks:
Do you and partner Elis James spend all day telling each other jokes? And which of you is the funniest?
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'I'm so used to ASMR – it happens on an almost daily basis. It's about the moment of contact, about us both wanting the same thing for a moment'
lewisdenson asks:
I’ve really enjoyed all of your radio programmes like the one about on hold music, but particularly your latest show about ASMR.
Do you think that everyone can receive ASMR or do you think it only affects a certain type of person? Is it a similar feeling to tingles down the spine when at something like a music gig and your favourite song comes on?
I’m always inspired by your work, and I think your laugh is my favourite celebrity laugh.
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ID384208 asks:
How do you approach making comedy about subjects that are not common knowledge like ASMR?
ID2534846 asks:
As a “female comic” do you feel you get complemented/criticised in the context of your sex? ie “you’re funny for a woman” or are you seen as just a comic, regardless of sex?
If the former, what do you think needs to change so that women’s comic abilities are judged/viewed on a par with men?
jameswalsh asks:
Hello – I saw you alongside Simon Munnery at Fylm School earlier this month, I thought you and Kevin Eldon were both excellent, even if it was a bit creepy to have the comedians lurking behind the audience for a change.
How natural is it to make the move from stand-up to writing – do you think some comedians are more suited to it than others? Which fellow comedian on the circuit would you most like to see write a memoir or a novel?
KentonCooooool asks:
Isy, I once seen you at Firefly in the Marcus Garvey Ballroom in Nottingham enjoying yourself. Is Nottingham putting on enough “weird techno nights”?
Hands in the air? Or hands on your head? How do you embrace the weirdness?
presquemonday asks:
If a very very funny yet offensive (level: tongue-in-cheek) joke popped into your noggin regarding David Bowie’s death on the day the world was informed would you have tweeted it for seventy five grand STERLING?
wait_what asks:
How on earth did you cope with some of the cringey scenes? I can barely watch them without my toes/entire body curling, I can’t imagine how difficult it was to film them!
Grimble44 asks:
Isy, tell us the most interesting thing about Matlock.
In fact, tell us ANYTHING interesting about Matlock.
Here's Isy at Guardian Towers
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vammyp asks:
There’s a bloke who goes about Stoke Newington taping bits of rubbish to lampposts and walls, this morning I saw him carrying see-through sandwich bags full of hard boiled eggs and dragging a burning industrial waste bin.
So my first question, why’s he doing this?
And my second question, what’s your favourite pie filling?
Isy is with us now – let's get started
Her first answer is for Jimbob72, who asked:
Why did you decide to make a short film with The Stranglers? I liked it, by the way.
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Post your questions for Isy Suttie
Isy Suttie will be known to many as Dobby, the “IT misfit” on Peep Show, whose romance with Mark was one of the series’ most constant sources of fist-gnawing awkwardness. But as well as stints on Shameless and Boomers, plus radio series and on-stage roles including the A-Z map inventor Phyllis Pearsall, she’s turned to writing.
Her new memoir The Actual One is about the early midlife crisis suffered by so many late-twentysomethings, when you can no longer postpone growing up and it’s time to settle down. After a bet with her mum, Suttie ends up on a quest to find a life partner, “the actual one” of the title. It’s out on 28 January, and Isy is taking it on a book tour next month.
Before hitting the road, she will join us to answer your questions about anything in her varied career in a live webchat from 1pm GMT on Tuesday 19 January. Post yours in the comments below, and she’ll answer as many as possible.
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Thanks for all your questions, especially the one that suggests I could have a role in Batman. If you need touring and book information, go to isysuttie.com. I'm off to eat some Thai green chicken curry.