Come As You Are with Helen Duff
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Bold subversive and very funny" (The Scotsman) comedian Helen Duff delves deep with brilliantly open, hilariously insightful folk from across the experience spectrum. While the first two seasons explored different experiences of orgasm and sex, the third season is all about care - who and what we care about, how and why we show care, and what we can do to recognise and value care more widely.
From CEO's to top comedians off the telly, we discuss cleaning, cancer, mental illness, memes, sex work, sharing recipes and much, much more.
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Episodes
MINI SERIES - Helen Duff: WHO CARES? Update!
August 01, 2023 06:00 - 7 minutes - 7.25 MBAn update from Helen about where the podcast is going next, her mini series (and maybe more) Helen Duff: Who Cares? And her live show deets for the upcoming Edinburgh Fringe Festival. You can see Helen's WIP hour Lullabies at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at: Monkey Barrel The Tron 14th August 4.25pm Monkey Barrel Hive 2 15th August 3.25pm Monkey Barrel Hive 2 16th August 4.45pm "Strap in for a controlled implosion of chaotic beauty, soothing stories, and unforgettable songs - AKA a ce...
Amy Kavanagh
September 27, 2022 05:30 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBDr Amy Kavanagh is an award winning disability rights activist and campaigner. Amy advocates for a more accessible world through consultancy, writing, policy influencing, media and public speaking. She is engaged with a variety of disability issues including, public transport, social inclusion, video games, accessible social media, feminism and the built environment; all with a core commitment to challenge negative attitudes towards disability. In this episode we discuss what fires Amy up t...
Carmen Ali AKA April Fiasco
September 13, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBCarmen Ali AKA April Fiasco is a multidisciplinary performer and writer, co-artistic director of Sexquisite Events and co-organiser & dancer at Cybertease. She reveals why stand up can feel so much more exposing than sex work; how she's started bringing the funny to burlesque; creating spaces for sex workers to explore their creativity on stage; the overwhelm of group sex and how orgasming late taught her to respect her own boundaries better. The Guardian article Helen mentions can be found...
Olga Koch
August 02, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBOlga Koch is a comedic force to be reckoned with - since debuting to a Best Newcomer nomination for her show "Fight" at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018, she's appeared on Mock the Week (BBC Two), QI (BBC Two), Frankie Boyle's New World Order (BBC Two), Late Night Mash (Dave), Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC Two), Guessable (Comedy Central), Question Team (Dave) all over BBC Radio 4 with her own specials, and is currently co-presenting the "Obsessed with... Everything I Know About Love" podc...
Becky Young of Anti Diet Riot Club
July 28, 2022 07:19 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBBecky Young is the Founder & Co-director of Anti Diet Riot Club CIC, a rebel community fighting body shame, fat phobia and diet culture. On a mission to help people accept their bodies and find freedom from diets ADRC hosts talks, educational and creative workshops, and creates safe spaces for people to share and learn from each other. From meeting with Sadiq Khan to hosting a body-positive festival in London and launching an online membership platform, they tackle the growing body image pro...
Lindsey Bliss Birth Doula
July 19, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBLindsey Bliss (she/they) is a seasoned birth companion, a childbirth educator, author ofThe Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth and mother of seven. Lindsey is considered to be a multiples expert after giving birth to two consecutive sets of twins. Lindsey has been practicing as a birth worker since 2009 and has supported first time parents, multiparas, single parents, LGBTQAI+ families, twin births, medicated and non-medicated vaginal births, cesarean births, and VBACs. In this episode...
Fern Riddell
July 12, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBDr Fern Riddell is a cultural historian specialising in sex, suffrage and culture in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. She appears regularly on TV and radio and hosts the history podcast Not What You Thought You Knew, where she explores how history has made us who we are today. She was also the Historical Consultant on the BAFTA award winning BBC drama Ripper Street and as an on screen expert has appeared in documentaries for the BBC, ITV, C4, C5 and Sky Arts. In this episode we dive deep i...
Kemah Bob
July 04, 2022 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBKemah (she/they) is a comedian, presenter, writer, actor, drag artist and producer from Houston, TX now based in London. Her work centers Black cultural identity, mental health, sexuality, gender, healing and well-being using entertainment as a tool for enlightenment and empowerment. She takes huge inspiration from Oprah, Beyonce and the sun - aiming to spread love, light and warmth everywhere she goes. In this episode we talk about pregnancy sex, covid sex and self imposed sex droughts, po...
SEASON 2 BONUS CONTENT
June 28, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBHelen dives deep with producer Daisy Grant into where she's been for the past 1.5 years and how birth and motherhood have impacted her production of the podcast. To gain early access to episodes and extra content, join our patreon at www.patreon.com/helenduff Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Come As You Are Season 2 Trailer
June 21, 2022 07:00 - 1 minute - 1.67 MBSeason 2 of Come As You Are the podcast drops in 2 weeks - with guests ranging from cracking comedians Kemah Bob and Olga Koch to sex historian Fern Riddell and birth doula Lindsey Bliss! Subscribe now and join our patreon at www.patreon.com/helenduff Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sophie Duker
March 23, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBThe Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee and bombastic black sheep who enjoys telling jokes, breaking hearts and taking names, Sophie Duker is a shooting star on the UK comedy scene. As seen on BBC2 (Mock The Week, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order), Channel 4 (8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Riot Girls), E4 (8 Out of 10 Cats), BBC Three, Channel 5 and Comedy Central. In this episode we talk about riding out online abuse, how therapy has helped Sophie stay present in her body whilst enduring a med...
Alice Devlin
March 16, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 53.5 MBAlice is an actor, director, writer and workshop facilitator. She is an artistic director of Bric a Brac Theatre, an all female Lecoq trained collective, and co-produces alternative comedy cabaret Piñata. She often writes under the (not so mysterious) pen name ADB. In this episode we discuss BDSM, role-play, submission as a power position, clowning, and Anne Summers parties unleashing your aquatic side at a young age. You can find Alice bringing sunshine to everything she does on: Instag...
Annie Bashord
March 09, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBAnnie performs monthly at the online cabaret Big Wowie and is part of the comedy collective HaHaFlix. At 18 Annie assisted Paul King (The Mighty Boosh, Paddington) on the Fringe show The Blue Diamond of Azkabar which toured her home county of Kent. Having completed her degree in English and Drama at Goldsmiths she went on to assist Cal McCrystal in Switzerland on the Spymonkey show Bless. Next she moved to Paris to study with Philippe Gaulier. Since graduating, Annie has performed several or...
Ariane Barnes
March 02, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBAriane Barnes is a performer, teacher and embodied diversity and inclusion strategist. In this episode we talk trusting your instincts, setting up support networks to empower marginalised women facing prejudice in the performance industries, healing the body and brain connection, the importance of cultivating safe spaces when it comes to enjoying sexual intimacy, and unleashing your inner freak. Ariane is the founder of Different Women, an organisation that runs workshops & empowerment eve...
Tom Rasmussen
February 23, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBTom has been performing and singing in drag since 2010. Their first solo show ‘Crystal Rasmussen presents the Bible 2’ was among the 20 best reviewed shows across the whole 2019 Fringe. Tom is also a writer, and after they spent five years dining out on stories of the drag and queer scenes in publications like the Guardian, Gay Times, Dazed & Confused, i-D and the Independent, Tom published their first book Diary of a Drag Queen (Penguin UK/FSG USA), which is now being developed for screen. ...
Jess Burgess
February 16, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBJess Burgess is a librarian and Virginia Woolf fangirl living in Hove. After a traumatic three years at The Oxford School of Drama, they worked as an actor and playwright in London until running away to the sea in 2019 in search of inner peace. Writing credits include Fucking Outside the Box (VAULT Festival 2014), NAKED (VAULT Festival 2015), Feed Her Milk (Theatre Delicatessen) and Awake & Asleep (Treadwell’s Bookshop). She has an unedited play about sex magic saved to her laptop, which h...
Leila Navabi
February 09, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBLeila is a 22 year-old writer, comedian and producer. Having started her career straight from school at 17, she has written and produced content for MTV, Comedy Central, Channel 4 and the BBC. She produced series 22 and 23 of Radio 4 Extra's 'Newsjack', 'The Summer Comedy Festival with Sara Pascoe' for Radio 4, and hit Spotify-Original podcast 'Rose and Rosie: Parental Guidance'. As a writer, she has worked across many projects including BBC One's 'Tourist Trap' and BBC Sounds' 'The Leak'. ...
Samantha Holdsworth
February 02, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBSamantha Holdsworth is the Founder and CEO of Clowns Without Borders UK, an international humanitarian charity that delivers joy and play to children living in refugee and displacement camps. As a Facilitator, Clown and Producer, Sam has devised and delivered countless community-based and arts-led projects around the world. She is passionate about the arts as a catalyst for social change. In this episode, we talk about stepping into your power at 40, setting up an international humanitarian...
Karen Hobbs
January 26, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBKaren Hobbs is a comedian, writer, actress and ambassador for the cervical cancer charity Eve Appeal, raising awareness of a potentially terminal disease that she was diagnosed with at 24 and from which she has subsequently made a full recovery. In this episode, we talk Class-A c*nt ex-boyfriends, rediscovering sex after major surgery, shredding the shame of speaking openly about cervical cancer, and orgasming like there's a tsunami on the horizon that only you and your vagina can cont...
Jodie Mitchell
January 19, 2021 09:42 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBJodie Mitchell is a comedian, podcaster and drag king, performing as John Travulva with Pecs Drag Kings, founding member of the omni-hilarious queer comedy collective LOL Word Comedy, and one half of the podcast Secret Dinosaur Cult with Sofie Hagen. In this episode, we talk masc shame, internalised butchphobia, homophobia, fatphobia and - on the flip side - consensual, joyful, egalitarian sex. In this quietly-captivating exploration of identity, role play and self expression, Jodie reveal...
Desiree Burch
January 12, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBDesiree Burch is a comedian, writer, solo performer, actor and NY-to-London transplant. She exploded onto the UK comedy scene in 2015, winning the Funny Women Award, and since then, she has appeared on, ‘Live at the Apollo’ (BBC), 'The Mash Report', 'Mock the Week, ‘Frankie Boyle’s New World Order' (BBC2), 'Live from the BBC' (BBC3), ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Qi’ (BBC), ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’ (Channel 4), and co-hosted ‘Officially Amazing’ (CBBC). She’s been heard on ‘The News Quiz’ (BBCR4), T...
Come As You Are Trailer
January 04, 2021 14:00 - 1 minute - 13.2 MBA teaser trailer for podcast Come As You Are, the new podcast all about orgasms with comedian Helen Duff. First episode drops January 12th 2021. Can you guess who our mystery guests (for now) might be? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.