A monster\u2019s guide to tolerance and temperance. Jess Fostekew<\/b> can feel herself becoming an emotional wildebeest right when her world (and the whole world, thanks) demands cool, collected ultra detached saint-like kindness and understanding. S**t.<\/p>\n
She goes digging around in her DNA for answers and finds so many beautiful horrors. Witness her effort to become a brand new, mythical, mystical \u2018coper.\u2019 OR NOT. She gets cancelled, she gets touched and she gets a dolphin-based epiphany all in one show. The silliest of comedy for the scariest of days from Edinburgh Best Show Award Nominee.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve seen Jess on BBC\u2019s QI, Live at the Apollo, Celebrity University Challenge and Richard Osman\u2019s House of Games. From Travel Man on C4 and World\u2019s Most Dangerous Roads on Dave. You know her from her two BBC R4 series of Sturdy Girl Club plus podcasts The Guilty Feminist and Hoovering. And, of course, from new mighty smash hit Gladiator\u2019s fan-podcast Contender Ready which Jess co-hosts with Olympic weightlifting superstar, Emily Campbell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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