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", 'Obviously I said yes, very very happy. [2] He has two younger sisters, Carys and Nia. Since 2018 Elis has appeared as Nez in the semi-improvised mockumentary Tourist Trap on BBC One Wales. [26], In 2016, James hosted Elis in Euroland for BBC Radio Wales, a series reporting on the 2016 Euros campaign by the Wales national football team, of which he's been a lifelong fan. James worked in various jobs before becoming a professional comic, including temp work, charity work, and part-time work at a caf. In 2009, the pair met and began dating in 2010. Drawing on these rich conversations, together with the help of a team of mental health experts, How Do You Cope? Porter's early stand-up shows focussed on the single life. Do you suffer from health anxiety and OCD like Jane?Not so much any more. Rich and I weren't in a long-established relationship and I didn't know if it was going to last. Daily Mirror in 2021 reported: she proposed to Welsh partner, fellow comedian and Radio X host Elis James in 2016 after meeting at a comedy gig in Barnstaple in 2009. Isobel Isy Suttie, 42, was born in Hull and raised in Matlock, Derbyshire. Isy was going to Sydney for a few weeks to work, then I was going there to do standup for three months, says Elis. I'm very very happy to finally be making an honest man of Elis.'. If I was stressed, Id start to worry about my health. Our ads are non-intrusive and relevant. Was Peep Show a game-changer for your career?Definitely. We were pining for each other so much, says Isy. Isy Suttie was born on 11 August 1978 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In 2006, James received the National Student Radio Awards for Best Comedy. The recording starts with Robins standing on a chair, tapping a glass and announcing 'Isy would like to say a few words and see how it goes ', A clearly emotional Suttie can be heard thanking her friends for coming before saying to James: 'I love you. Corcoran explained in 2014: "We would write each show from scratch in the space of five days and the first time we'd perform it would be in front of the audience. Engaged since 2016, they have two children and live in London Isy and Elis 'It's nice. A few days in Southend with two female friends felt thrillingly exotic after being locked down in Camberwell, south London for the past 15 months. "And obviously, amazing woman and all that sorts of stuff. Suttie was born in Hull and raised in Matlock, Derbyshire, to an English mother and a Scottish father. The pair are now recording the show from their respective bedrooms: Robins home alone in rural Buckinghamshire; James in south London, where he lives with his partner, the comedian Isy Suttie, and . He is a man of average stature. "Obviously I said yes. Then I didnt read much between 17 and 19, apart from Heat magazine, because I was busy drinking Diamond White in the park. ", It wasn't always like this. ", Justin Edwards stars in the fourth series of 'In and Out of the Kitchen' with Miles Jupp, which begins on 5 August on Radio 4. He has relocated to South London. over six weekends from 7 August at the Leicester Square Theatre. You're happier in a relationship, but you have to engineer stuff for comic material." James's first language is Welsh, and one of Suttie's best-known routines is a love song to her boyfriend in a pidgin beginners' version of the language. Sign up to our daily newsletters for all the latest and greatest from across London here. Im useless with tech so I spent a fortune on phone calls, he says. "I didn't want us to get to the point where we always had to go to each other's gigs. Didnt several fellow comedians lend their expertise in certain areas?Yeah, I was very grateful for that. Isy Suttie is a comedian and actor, best known for her memorable performance as Dobby on Peep Show. She will be on Richard Osman's House of Games every day this week. [12], James was the MC of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival Gala performance at the May 2014 Hay Festival. There was a carton of Ribena between my legs and I had to brake suddenly, he laughs. And what does he have in connection with the Knezovics? She is 100 percent halachically Jewish through her mother's mother, but raised outside the community and religion. Isy Suttie and Elis James are engaged to be married after she proposed at a launch party for her new book. She is an actress and writer, known for Peep Show (2003), Whites (2010) and Skins (2007). Elis performed with partner Isy Suttie, and comedians Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak. Chortle relies on advertisers to fund this website so its free for you, so we would ask that you disable it for this site. He is the narrator of the BBC Four documentary The Secret Life of Farm Animals, first broadcast in March 2022. From there, the show explores how much Robins missed Pascoe and their everyday "domestic adventures". I didnt want messages from people I went to school with telling me theres plenty more fish in the sea.. Beti was born in 2014 and in 2019 they had Steffan. He made the transition to full-time comedy work in 2008. How much of it is autobiographical?Ive had two children, so I know what its like trying for a baby. Elis and his partner Isy reside in Crystal Palace, South London, and have a daughter named Beti Mair who was born in 2014, and a son named Steffan who was born in 2019. The digital age is so good in so many ways, but the fact that you can get a headache, look it up online and immediately see cancer among the search results isnt great especially if youre a worrier with a tendency to catastrophise. Were about to spend the wedding money on two nights at Center Parcs. "I . The 43-year-old has also featured on Shameless, Damned and Man Down. So I raced through Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy and a few of Erin Kellys books, which I loved. We see you are using AdBlocker software. Now shes about to publish her debut novel, Jane Is Trying, about an anxiety sufferers struggles to get pregnant. Mark Steel lives down the road and told me amazing stories about living in squats during the 80s that had me crying with laughter. But not so different that Welsh comics can't be successful in England, and vice versa. says Robins, outraged. Before moving full-time to comedy, Elis served as a guitarist with the Cardiff-based indie/punk band Heck, fronted by Jemma Roper. Something went wrong, please try again later. The news was revealed on James' Radio X show with John Robins, as they played a recording of the moment. Help keep Chortle viable. "I talk about you loads in my new show!" Ladies! We like going to work. [3] She also provides narration on the UK television show, Posh Pawn . "It's great doing observational material about being in a relationship that makes couples turn to each other and put their arms around each other, as opposed to, 'Oh yeah, I hate my wife too'," says Robins. I'd seen Rich perform and he was very honest about all kinds of sexual things in his act, so I felt like he would understand. 'Wallop' I think is the word!". She popped the question to the Welsh stand-up at a launch party for her new book, Sign up here to get the CardiffOnline newsletter sent straight to your inbox. We see you are using AdBlocker software. They played a recording of the moment Isy proposed which started with Robins standing on a chair, tapping a glass and announcing 'Isy would like to say a few words.', Suttie thanked her friends for coming before saying to James: 'I love you. "Well I'm still the funniest thing in your life," she responds. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Afterwards, I think I knew we were going to be together for ever, and I never really even believed in that before.. Elis was born on November 3, 1980, in Haverfordwest, Wales, UK. Suttie was born in Hull and raised in Matlock, Derbyshire, to an English mother and a Scottish father. Isy Suttie is best known for playing Dobby in 'Peep Show'. How did the idea for Jane Is Trying germinate?The starting point was her working in a bookshop. It felt completely wrong, so I cruelly cut the child and had her trying for a baby instead. The standup and actor on her debut novel about a woman trying to conceive, anxiety in the digital age, and the chances of a Peep Show reunion, Isy Suttie just returned from what she likens to a tired, middle-class hen do. I was only ever contracted for one series at a time but ended up staying for five. Four series have been broadcast so far. She also branched out to writing and penned a novel about an anxiety sufferer's struggles to get pregnant, based on her own health struggles. But the stand-up comic in me did think "oh, if I made a joke now, as long as I read the vibe right, it would be very, very, very funny". Its awful to think weve lost those diverse voices. He started his comedy career in 2005, though he had initially won the Maes B comedy award at the 1999 national eisteddfod. Josh was commissioned and ran for three series on BBC Three from 2015 to 2017. He is bilingual in Welsh and English and has performed stand-up in both languages. Other TV acting credits include Shameless, Damned and Man Down. [36], In 2015 he appeared on The Really Welsh Christmas Quiz on BBC One Wales, alongside fellow comedians Chris Corcoran, Miles Jupp and Omar Hamdi.[37]. Id actually come out of a relationship 18 months earlier but hadnt changed my status. [9], James commenced his role as Rex Jones, an old caretaker who is a post-Marxist with a health-and-safety obsession, in the live show Chris Corcoran's Committee Meeting in 2009. Website and all original content copyright Chortle 2000 - 2023. Whats your writing routine?I used to romanticise the life of a writer banging away at a typewriter, fuelled by cigarettes, coffee and booze. The couple met at a comedy gig in Barnstaple in 2009 and started dating in 2010. "It was the worst feeling I've had in two years that sense of shame" says Robins. "It absolutely works if you think that you're being fair to the other one and they're being fair to you. You're very boring to me now." He explained in 2010 that the worst thing about being a comedian is when the timing of Swansea City games clash with his live show commitments. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Suttie has two children - six-year-old. Isy Suttie (Isobel Jane Suttie) was born on 11 August, 1978 in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. Suttie told Chortle: 'Once someone's watched you give birth, it seems only natural that the next step is bickering over vol a vent flavours and whether Manic Street Preachers can work for a first dance. Elis has two younger sisters named, Carys and Nia. Isy admitted that she drew from her own experiences with control to write the book. Free speech: Do comedians practise what they preach? The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Otherwise the joke doesn't work.". "We're similar in that we both quite like doing rude, crude stuff, but we're not very similar performers," says Herring. Justin and I are deeply dull people and live a very dull suburban life." Elis and his partner Isy have a daughter named Beti Mair who was born in 2014 and a son named Steffan who was als0 born in 2019. The news was revealed on James' Radio X show with John Robins, as they played a recording of the moment. Our jobs are very flexible. [14], In late 2015, James recorded a stand-up special in Welsh titled Rhacs Jibiders. In 2009, the pair met and began dating in 2010. That and Adrian Mole were the first books to really make me laugh. At this year's Fringe, Alfie Brown and Jessie Cave, and Bobby Mair and Harriet Kemsley are two couples preparing to spill the beans on their love lives. The show, conceived by Welsh comedian Chris Corcoran, was held for three years at the Muni Arts Centre. Luckily we still find plenty of ways to make each other laugh.. Most of the material that works for me is about rows we've had or ways that he's annoyed me', Elis James and Isy Suttie met at a comedy gig in Barnstaple in 2009 and started dating in 2010. Why not just say you love your wife? She also writes children's books, under the name Catherine Wilkins. [41], In March 2017 James won Chortle's Best Radio Show award with co-host John Robins, for their weekly show on Radio X. I didnt set out to write so much about Janes mental state but it felt natural. And I make fun of your height a lot [Porter is 4ft 11in to Edwards' 6ft 5in], and of you not remembering that I'm left-handed or that I like coconut. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. While Elis admits the tour was a great opportunity, he never would have accepted the offer if he had met his partner first. "Now it's different. He also got back to my texts about vaping exceedingly quickly. In December 2009, they were booked to do another gig together, this time in Cardiff, where Elis was living. Women didn't used to want to come to gigs because even if it wasn't conscious, they felt unwelcome, attacked by the material. "Most of the material that works for me is about rows we've had or ways that he's annoyed me. In their stand-up shows they talk openly about their relationship she about his low sex drive, he about her menstrual mood-swings, Robins says: 'You see comics backstage and they're showing you pictures of their kids and holidays and they're really happy. [43], The shows sister podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, How Do You Cope?with Elis and John" won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for best podcast in 2021. Take my wife Please. Josie Long read bits of the book as it progressed and advised me on protests and marches. So when I finally got out of that relationship, I felt like everything was up for grabs. 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", 'Obviously I said yes, very very happy. [2] He has two younger sisters, Carys and Nia. Since 2018 Elis has appeared as Nez in the semi-improvised mockumentary Tourist Trap on BBC One Wales. [26], In 2016, James hosted Elis in Euroland for BBC Radio Wales, a series reporting on the 2016 Euros campaign by the Wales national football team, of which he's been a lifelong fan. James worked in various jobs before becoming a professional comic, including temp work, charity work, and part-time work at a caf. In 2009, the pair met and began dating in 2010. Drawing on these rich conversations, together with the help of a team of mental health experts, How Do You Cope? Porter's early stand-up shows focussed on the single life. Do you suffer from health anxiety and OCD like Jane?Not so much any more. Rich and I weren't in a long-established relationship and I didn't know if it was going to last. Daily Mirror in 2021 reported: she proposed to Welsh partner, fellow comedian and Radio X host Elis James in 2016 after meeting at a comedy gig in Barnstaple in 2009. Isobel Isy Suttie, 42, was born in Hull and raised in Matlock, Derbyshire. Isy was going to Sydney for a few weeks to work, then I was going there to do standup for three months, says Elis. I'm very very happy to finally be making an honest man of Elis.'. If I was stressed, Id start to worry about my health. Our ads are non-intrusive and relevant. Was Peep Show a game-changer for your career?Definitely. We were pining for each other so much, says Isy. Isy Suttie was born on 11 August 1978 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In 2006, James received the National Student Radio Awards for Best Comedy. The recording starts with Robins standing on a chair, tapping a glass and announcing 'Isy would like to say a few words and see how it goes ', A clearly emotional Suttie can be heard thanking her friends for coming before saying to James: 'I love you. Corcoran explained in 2014: "We would write each show from scratch in the space of five days and the first time we'd perform it would be in front of the audience. Engaged since 2016, they have two children and live in London Isy and Elis 'It's nice. A few days in Southend with two female friends felt thrillingly exotic after being locked down in Camberwell, south London for the past 15 months. "And obviously, amazing woman and all that sorts of stuff. Suttie was born in Hull and raised in Matlock, Derbyshire, to an English mother and a Scottish father. The pair are now recording the show from their respective bedrooms: Robins home alone in rural Buckinghamshire; James in south London, where he lives with his partner, the comedian Isy Suttie, and . He is a man of average stature. "Obviously I said yes. Then I didnt read much between 17 and 19, apart from Heat magazine, because I was busy drinking Diamond White in the park. ", It wasn't always like this. ", Justin Edwards stars in the fourth series of 'In and Out of the Kitchen' with Miles Jupp, which begins on 5 August on Radio 4. He has relocated to South London. over six weekends from 7 August at the Leicester Square Theatre. You're happier in a relationship, but you have to engineer stuff for comic material." James's first language is Welsh, and one of Suttie's best-known routines is a love song to her boyfriend in a pidgin beginners' version of the language. Sign up to our daily newsletters for all the latest and greatest from across London here. Im useless with tech so I spent a fortune on phone calls, he says. "I didn't want us to get to the point where we always had to go to each other's gigs. Didnt several fellow comedians lend their expertise in certain areas?Yeah, I was very grateful for that. Isy Suttie is a comedian and actor, best known for her memorable performance as Dobby on Peep Show. She will be on Richard Osman's House of Games every day this week. [12], James was the MC of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival Gala performance at the May 2014 Hay Festival. There was a carton of Ribena between my legs and I had to brake suddenly, he laughs. And what does he have in connection with the Knezovics? She is 100 percent halachically Jewish through her mother's mother, but raised outside the community and religion. Isy Suttie and Elis James are engaged to be married after she proposed at a launch party for her new book. She is an actress and writer, known for Peep Show (2003), Whites (2010) and Skins (2007). Elis performed with partner Isy Suttie, and comedians Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak. Chortle relies on advertisers to fund this website so its free for you, so we would ask that you disable it for this site. He is the narrator of the BBC Four documentary The Secret Life of Farm Animals, first broadcast in March 2022. From there, the show explores how much Robins missed Pascoe and their everyday "domestic adventures". I didnt want messages from people I went to school with telling me theres plenty more fish in the sea.. Beti was born in 2014 and in 2019 they had Steffan. He made the transition to full-time comedy work in 2008. How much of it is autobiographical?Ive had two children, so I know what its like trying for a baby. Elis and his partner Isy reside in Crystal Palace, South London, and have a daughter named Beti Mair who was born in 2014, and a son named Steffan who was born in 2019. The digital age is so good in so many ways, but the fact that you can get a headache, look it up online and immediately see cancer among the search results isnt great especially if youre a worrier with a tendency to catastrophise. Were about to spend the wedding money on two nights at Center Parcs. "I . The 43-year-old has also featured on Shameless, Damned and Man Down. So I raced through Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy and a few of Erin Kellys books, which I loved. We see you are using AdBlocker software. Now shes about to publish her debut novel, Jane Is Trying, about an anxiety sufferers struggles to get pregnant. Mark Steel lives down the road and told me amazing stories about living in squats during the 80s that had me crying with laughter. But not so different that Welsh comics can't be successful in England, and vice versa. says Robins, outraged. Before moving full-time to comedy, Elis served as a guitarist with the Cardiff-based indie/punk band Heck, fronted by Jemma Roper. Something went wrong, please try again later. The news was revealed on James' Radio X show with John Robins, as they played a recording of the moment. Help keep Chortle viable. "I talk about you loads in my new show!" Ladies! We like going to work. [3] She also provides narration on the UK television show, Posh Pawn . "It's great doing observational material about being in a relationship that makes couples turn to each other and put their arms around each other, as opposed to, 'Oh yeah, I hate my wife too'," says Robins. I'd seen Rich perform and he was very honest about all kinds of sexual things in his act, so I felt like he would understand. 'Wallop' I think is the word!". She popped the question to the Welsh stand-up at a launch party for her new book, Sign up here to get the CardiffOnline newsletter sent straight to your inbox. We see you are using AdBlocker software. They played a recording of the moment Isy proposed which started with Robins standing on a chair, tapping a glass and announcing 'Isy would like to say a few words.', Suttie thanked her friends for coming before saying to James: 'I love you. "Well I'm still the funniest thing in your life," she responds. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Afterwards, I think I knew we were going to be together for ever, and I never really even believed in that before.. Elis was born on November 3, 1980, in Haverfordwest, Wales, UK. Suttie was born in Hull and raised in Matlock, Derbyshire, to an English mother and a Scottish father. Isy Suttie is best known for playing Dobby in 'Peep Show'. How did the idea for Jane Is Trying germinate?The starting point was her working in a bookshop. It felt completely wrong, so I cruelly cut the child and had her trying for a baby instead. The standup and actor on her debut novel about a woman trying to conceive, anxiety in the digital age, and the chances of a Peep Show reunion, Isy Suttie just returned from what she likens to a tired, middle-class hen do. I was only ever contracted for one series at a time but ended up staying for five. Four series have been broadcast so far. She also branched out to writing and penned a novel about an anxiety sufferer's struggles to get pregnant, based on her own health struggles. But the stand-up comic in me did think "oh, if I made a joke now, as long as I read the vibe right, it would be very, very, very funny". Its awful to think weve lost those diverse voices. He started his comedy career in 2005, though he had initially won the Maes B comedy award at the 1999 national eisteddfod. Josh was commissioned and ran for three series on BBC Three from 2015 to 2017. He is bilingual in Welsh and English and has performed stand-up in both languages. Other TV acting credits include Shameless, Damned and Man Down. [36], In 2015 he appeared on The Really Welsh Christmas Quiz on BBC One Wales, alongside fellow comedians Chris Corcoran, Miles Jupp and Omar Hamdi.[37]. Id actually come out of a relationship 18 months earlier but hadnt changed my status. [9], James commenced his role as Rex Jones, an old caretaker who is a post-Marxist with a health-and-safety obsession, in the live show Chris Corcoran's Committee Meeting in 2009. Website and all original content copyright Chortle 2000 - 2023. Whats your writing routine?I used to romanticise the life of a writer banging away at a typewriter, fuelled by cigarettes, coffee and booze. The couple met at a comedy gig in Barnstaple in 2009 and started dating in 2010. "It was the worst feeling I've had in two years that sense of shame" says Robins. "It absolutely works if you think that you're being fair to the other one and they're being fair to you. You're very boring to me now." He explained in 2010 that the worst thing about being a comedian is when the timing of Swansea City games clash with his live show commitments. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Suttie has two children - six-year-old. Isy Suttie (Isobel Jane Suttie) was born on 11 August, 1978 in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. Suttie told Chortle: 'Once someone's watched you give birth, it seems only natural that the next step is bickering over vol a vent flavours and whether Manic Street Preachers can work for a first dance. Elis has two younger sisters named, Carys and Nia. Isy admitted that she drew from her own experiences with control to write the book. Free speech: Do comedians practise what they preach? The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Otherwise the joke doesn't work.". "We're similar in that we both quite like doing rude, crude stuff, but we're not very similar performers," says Herring. Justin and I are deeply dull people and live a very dull suburban life." Elis and his partner Isy have a daughter named Beti Mair who was born in 2014 and a son named Steffan who was als0 born in 2019. The news was revealed on James' Radio X show with John Robins, as they played a recording of the moment. Our jobs are very flexible. [14], In late 2015, James recorded a stand-up special in Welsh titled Rhacs Jibiders. In 2009, the pair met and began dating in 2010. That and Adrian Mole were the first books to really make me laugh. At this year's Fringe, Alfie Brown and Jessie Cave, and Bobby Mair and Harriet Kemsley are two couples preparing to spill the beans on their love lives. The show, conceived by Welsh comedian Chris Corcoran, was held for three years at the Muni Arts Centre. Luckily we still find plenty of ways to make each other laugh.. Most of the material that works for me is about rows we've had or ways that he's annoyed me', Elis James and Isy Suttie met at a comedy gig in Barnstaple in 2009 and started dating in 2010. Why not just say you love your wife? She also writes children's books, under the name Catherine Wilkins. [41], In March 2017 James won Chortle's Best Radio Show award with co-host John Robins, for their weekly show on Radio X. I didnt set out to write so much about Janes mental state but it felt natural. And I make fun of your height a lot [Porter is 4ft 11in to Edwards' 6ft 5in], and of you not remembering that I'm left-handed or that I like coconut. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. While Elis admits the tour was a great opportunity, he never would have accepted the offer if he had met his partner first. "Now it's different. He also got back to my texts about vaping exceedingly quickly. In December 2009, they were booked to do another gig together, this time in Cardiff, where Elis was living. Women didn't used to want to come to gigs because even if it wasn't conscious, they felt unwelcome, attacked by the material. "Most of the material that works for me is about rows we've had or ways that he's annoyed me. In their stand-up shows they talk openly about their relationship she about his low sex drive, he about her menstrual mood-swings, Robins says: 'You see comics backstage and they're showing you pictures of their kids and holidays and they're really happy. [43], The shows sister podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, How Do You Cope?with Elis and John" won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for best podcast in 2021. Take my wife Please. Josie Long read bits of the book as it progressed and advised me on protests and marches. So when I finally got out of that relationship, I felt like everything was up for grabs. 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