Rosie Jones (comedian)

In 2011, Jones was hired for a year as a junior researcher for Objective Media Group as part of a disability scheme at Channel 4. She was unemployed for a few years following this. In January 2015, Jones began a screenwriting class with National Film and Television School.[3] Jones reached the final of the 2016 Funny Women Awards.[3] She began writing for The Last Leg during their coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics.[9] Jones has also written for Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule, Would I Lie to You? and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.[3][4]

In 2017, Jones appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats.[5] In 2018, Jones appeared in Silent Witness[10] and on The Last Leg.[6] In 2019, Jones was a guest on Hypothetical and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and again on 8 Out of 10 Cats and The Last Leg.[8][7][5][6] She has also appeared on the podcast The Guilty Feminist,[11] the Channel 4 online programme The Last Leg: The Correspondents,[12] the BBC Three series "Things Not to Say",[13] BBC Radio 4's Fred at the Stand[14] and BBC web series Period Dramas.[15]

In June 2019, Jones launched a new podcast alongside fellow comedian Helen Bauer entitled Daddy Look at Me. The podcast features Bauer, Jones and a guest discussing their childhoods and what they did in order to get attention in their youth.[16]

In 2020, Jones guest starred in an episode of the third series of the BBC drama Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators.[17] and on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, presented by Nish Kumar.[18] She also appeared on an episode of Joe Lycett's Got Your Back.[19]

Alongside series creator Laurie Nunn, Jones co-wrote episode four of the second season of the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education, released in January 2020.[20]

Jones appeared as a panellist on BBC One's Question Time on 12 November 2020.[21][22]

Jones has ataxic cerebral palsy;[37] she incorporates her slow speech pattern into her comedy, constructing jokes to subvert the punchline that audiences expect.[2][9] For instance, she has used the opening line "As you can tell from my voice, I suffer from being northern."[3] Jones unexpectedly refers to previous jokes later in her performances, a trait which one critic describes as "clinically planned".[29]

She describes her style as "cheeky",[2] commenting that she makes jokes that able-bodied people could not.[4] Jones' stand-up comedy relates to disability and sexuality,[9] and has been described as dark comedy.[27]

In 2019, Jones received mixed reception for a joke made on The Last Leg in which she said that as a 16-year-old, environmental activist Greta Thunberg should only be concerned with "drinking Lambrini and getting fingered."[38]

Jones is gay. On the BBC Sounds podcast Duvet Days, she said "Growing up, there was nobody in TV or radio that looked like me – that sounded like me. There was Francesca Martinez in Grange Hill, but that was the only person really. And also my sexuality came into that, like when there was a disabled person they were very much the victim and they didn’t have a sexuality, they were very much the stock disabled person. That meant growing up, I didn’t accept my sexuality because I thought I’m not gay and disabled."[39]

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• Rosie Jones at IMDb