★★★★★
When someone from our community excels, it can mean you have to be everything to everyone. It’s a sign of Jones’ commitment to the craft of stand-up comedy, that her new hour is a perfectly written set that never panders to expectations or feels the need to represent anything except Rosie herself. This is her stage and she will talk about what she wants. Namely being a triple threat, ‘A lesbian, disabled and a prick’. Her willingness to dissect the price of fame and respond to the calls she gets in the streets, ‘You’re on everything!’ to which she replies ‘I’m not, I’m not on Dancing on Ice!’.
Jones does, for a moment, go into the stand-up done good cliché of ‘buying a house’, a routine many establishment comics seem to do, and can be a little at odds with the rest of the material. This is minor, as Rosie’s focus on sexuality, being a woman, and a lesbian, talking about disabled sexuality in a way that is empowering, and funny in a ‘I’ve been there too’ kind of way.
This is why it is heartening to see Jones perform to a predominately disabled audience, a sign that our communities adore her, but also the comedy is for us, we get it.
With Triple Threat, Rosie Jones cements her reputation as the U.K’s foremost disabled comedian at the top of her game.
Rosie Jones was at The Pleasance as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.
