As Rachel Parris takes to the stage with her revised Poise stand-up tour, the comedian is all too familiar with the pitfalls of being a woman who dares to have opinions. Motherhood, middle-age and miserly politicians – all three are the subject of 40-year-old comedian Rachel’s latest musical comedy extravaganza that is coming back strong after a more-than-eventful summer break. Between the first half of the tour and the next the entire UK government changed as 14 years of Tory rule was vanquished by a decisive Labour victory helmed by party leader Sir Keir Starmer .
Although it was the outcome countless were rooting for (including Rachel herself), it comes with one caveat. No more poking jokes at Tory politicians, or at least, heavily reducing. ‘I’ve had to rewrite my Rishi Sunak material, think up some stuff about Starmer and try and find something funny about the current cabinet,’ the Bafta-nominated comic told Metro.
co.uk . ‘The fact that the most comedic thing about Starmer that anyone has found is that he’s a bit boring is in itself very boring.
So that’s not a joke that I’m making in my show, because everyone’s made that joke, and it’s not very funny,’ she added with a wry smile. Rachel’s public acclaim blew up when she joined Nish Kumar on BBC’s hit satirical series The Mash Report to pick apart the chaos the country has been plummeting into full throttle since the Brexit vote in 2016. ‘There was so much low-hanging fruit to mock.
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