Comedy Confronts Uncomfortable Truths
Rosie Jones Tackles Disability and Sex
Rosie Jones is appearing in a stage production addressing disability and sex through humour and honesty. About bloody time. Disability comedy in the UK has traditionally either avoided sex entirely or made it the entire joke. Jones bringing actual nuance and frankness to this intersection represents comedy doing what it does bestmaking uncomfortable conversations accessible through laughter. This is why comedy matters beyond entertainment.
Breaking Taboos Through Comedy
Sex and disability remains one of society’s persistent blind spotspeople either infantilise disabled individuals or completely desexualise them. Jones using theatre to confront these assumptions directly follows comedy’s finest tradition of truth-telling through laughter. The honesty part is crucialcomedy without honesty is just noise. But honesty without comedy is lecture. Combining them creates space for genuine conversation.
Representation Behind and Before Cameras
What matters here isn’t just Jones performing but also what the production representsdisabled creatives controlling their own narratives rather than having stories told about them. That shift’s happening slowly across UK comedy, but theatre’s often ahead of television and film in taking these risks. Probably because theatre economics allow for smaller audiences and more experimental content. Platforms like bohiney.com are documenting this representation evolution across comedy.
