Quotes from Rosie Jones

Disabled people are deliberately ignored because disabled people need more care and more money.

School was tough. My 'friend' group consisted of two girls I had known since Year 7. We initially got on well but as the years went on, they'd tell me I was too loud, too in-your-face, that I laughed too much.

I live in London. But during lockdown I moved back to Yorkshire with my mum and dad.

I spent lockdown back in Yorkshire with my parents, which was... tricky! But it did remind me how beautiful my hometown of Bridlington is, with its beautiful beaches, wildlife, and lovely locals.

When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love.

How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.

I think that the way forward now is more schemes and much more disabled people on TV: in sitcoms, in soaps. A disabled person reading the news would be the dream.

I think as creatures we're incredibly sociable, and I do think comedy brings us all together.

I'm usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.

Growing up, I'd heard so much about Barbados. It was where my parents spent their honeymoon and they also spoke about the time they took me when I was three years old.

I just knew I had it, but my mum and dad were always great, and it was always a thing I had but a thing that wasn't bad. It was just saying like, I have brown hair, I have brown eyes, and I've got cerebral palsy.

Because of my disability I do find that people can be a bit uncomfortable around me, so I've always had one-liners and jokes in my back pocket ready in case someone felt a bit awkward.

I am not alone in that I've had times of unemployment - unemployment is huge amongst disabled people.

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a dialogue, an interaction.

I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn't an angel, because I am far from an angel.

Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.

My walk. Let's clarify this: you're not allowed to laugh at my walk but I am. Most times I am in control of my leggies, but occasionally they have a mind of their own, and the little flicks can be very funny.

I try to make sure that my disability never stops me from doing what I want to do.

I'm just one person with one experience, so really on 'Question Time' and in my comedy day job I just say: 'Hello, I'm Rosie, I'm disabled, this is my view of the world.' If you agree with that, if you can take similarities with that, great, but I never assume that I'm grand enough to speak for a fifth of the country.

Disabled people used to be either the good person or the real evil villain. There's no way in between.

I feel like the luckiest person in comedy.