Speeches by Irons.

“Sharon, assuming you agree with what Geoff was saying about validation and recognition, what would look like in academic circles? What would make it easy for people making policy to pick comedy as a legitimate way of helping with mental health issues, loneliness or any of those things?”

“You are right. There is a legacy here. It has been happening for a long time. It is not new. You are already doing these things. But what can be done to formalise that arrangement a bit more, to provide a bit more structure and a bit more support, and to have those links within communities?”

“Thank you so much for coming today. Both Sharon and Geoff touched on this earlier, but I will talk a bit more about the social value and health benefits of comedy. With that in mind, organisations have gone into prisons and performed there. A campaign called Craic Health is about comedy on prescription and social presc…”

“Matt, you have built an entire industry for yourself off the back of podcasting and social media. How do you feel it has helped you develop your audience, and how important is this for new talent coming through?”

“Lynne, you have spoken before and I want to quote you back to yourself, if you will forgive me. No, sorry, I will quote Jessica who was on earlier. She has talked about women having to choose between taking sexist abuse from men and paying the rent and how “misogyny will wrongly allow women to be labelled as awkward, d…”

“We will come back to that in a bit, if you do not mind. Kate, you have often spoken about having interest from the US when you won your Funny Women award. You are thinking of performers like Gina Yashere and London Hughes, who have gone out there and had big careers. Is that the only way a black woman can be a comedian…”

“Thank you all so much for coming. Picking up on that, when we think about inequalities, we think about class inequality, income inequality, race and gender. Do we think that inequality is ingrained within comedy?”

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“Rating system—”

“Are you suggesting some sort of rating system?”

“Sharon, assuming you agree with what Geoff was saying about validation and recognition, what would look like in academic circles? What would make it easy for people making policy to pick comedy as a legitimate way of helping with mental health issues, loneliness or any of those things?”

“You are right. There is a legacy here. It has been happening for a long time. It is not new. You are already doing these things. But what can be done to formalise that arrangement a bit more, to provide a bit more structure and a bit more support, and to have those links within communities?”

“Thank you so much for coming today. Both Sharon and Geoff touched on this earlier, but I will talk a bit more about the social value and health benefits of comedy. With that in mind, organisations have gone into prisons and performed there. A campaign called Craic Health is about comedy on prescription and social presc…”

“We have seen the decline of public service broadcasting and traditional telly, with that being a big platform for people to launch their careers. Is there an opportunity for social media providers to use some of their social capital and value to develop working-class talent, for example, with their platforms, giving ou…”

“We have seen the decline of public service broadcasting and traditional telly, with that being a big platform for people to launch their careers. Is there an opportunity for social media providers to use some of their social capital and value to develop working-class talent, for example, with their platforms, giving ou…”

“Matt, you have built an entire industry for yourself off the back of podcasting and social media. How do you feel it has helped you develop your audience, and how important is this for new talent coming through?”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. Given the complexities and interchangeable disparities that affect maternal health for black women, does she agree that without a national target or framework we are doomed to make the same mistakes again and again? This travesty needs to end, because no mother…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bury North (Mr Frith) for securing this important debate. I should declare that my husband is a voiceover artist. As with every technological leap forward, whether from theatre to cinema or television to streaming, protect…”

“To wrap it up, on that point, how are you promoting that link and making clubs and schools talk to each other? What are you doing to facilitate that conversation between them, if anything? It is not necessarily all on your shoulders, but how are you doing it?”

“No, mine is just a local, community-led bowls club that has been there for a very long time, and the examples you give of things like breaking down loneliness is exactly what it is doing. My final question is: what do you then want to see local councils and Government do to protect bowling greens and bowling clubs goin…”