Rosie Jones announces 2025 tour
...as well as launching her own charity foundation
Rosie Jones is to tour with a new stand-up show I Can't Tell What She's Saying.
The show will hit the road in September, following a work in progress run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The blurb promises that ‘she'll be talking about the big stuff: being single, the pressures of representing huge sections of the population, and gravy. Oh, and boobs.’
It comes ahead of her Channel 4 sitcom, Pushers, in which she plays a drug dealer called Emily. The show was piloted as a 2021 Comedy Blap called Disability Benefits, and commissioned for a six-part series in 2023.
Jones also writes the show with Peter Fellows, who was previously a producer on Veep.
The comedian has also recently set up the Rosie Jones Foundation to give mental health support for people who have cerebral palsy, as she does.
In an interview on the charity’s website, the comic said it was a ‘very big, scary decision to start my own foundation’, adding: ‘I love my job. I love being in comedy, and I love making people laugh, but it got to a point where I was aware that I had a platform that not a lot of disabled people had, and I wanted to do something for good.’
And of her own mental health, she said: ‘Being honest about my sadness and my anger has only made me stronger. It’s allowed me to be more authentically myself. I wouldn’t want anyone else with CP who’s struggling to look at me and think "Rosie’s happy all day every day". I think that’s unrealistic.
‘ I think everyone, regardless of disability, has bad days. But it’s tricky because my bread and butter - what pays my bills - is being a comedian. Even when I started therapy, I was trying to make her laugh, make her like me. But I know now that there’s a time and a place to do my job’
Her foundation will help link people with CP with therapists who also have the condition. ‘That way they feel they are already in a safe space when they come to the first session,’ she said.
Tickets for I Can't Tell What She's Saying go on general sale at 11am on Friday.
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Published: 7 May 2025
