Covid, Vaccines, Jabs, Ukraine, Russia
The Week According To . . . Abi Roberts
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For this weeks meander through some of the news stories that have grabbed our attention we welcome a brand new guest, the unabashed comedian Abi Roberts!
Having lived and studied in Moscow in the nineties she will be giving her unfiltered opinion on the situation in Russia, looking closely at Ukrainian President Zelensky, telling us her memories of time spent there and then we look at PM Boris Johnson signalling that Putin should face war crimes over the invasion, Formula One cancels the Russian 2022 Grand Prix, Chinese Embassy in Canada highlights the tyranny and brutality seen in Canadian cities (pot calls kettle...), Red states quietly get on board with the vaccine passport, New vaccine promises 100% protection from severe disease, German tech giant builds global COVID vaccine app for the World Health Organisation and another 'rare' fatal seizure in young adults reported: this time a 27 year old actor from Coronation Street.
We finish with the fake news media throwing out COVID in exchange for war, Putin making Biden fart and troubled former British pop star sends a warning to Putin.... We bet he's shaking in his Ushanka!!!!
Abi Roberts is a British stand-up comedian, writer and commentator.
Abi became a professional stand-up in 2012, and since then has played some of the biggest clubs across the UK, and had several sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
She became a comedian because she wanted to write her own material and have the freedom to express her worldview – and make thousands of people laugh at the absurdity and wonder of life.
Abi does not worship at ‘The Church of Woke’! If you ask her how she identifies or what her gender pronouns are, she would give you this answer: “I’m a straight female who’s flattened a lot of grass. I spent much of my university days behind a club called Cinderella’s with a cone of chips in one hand and a pint of Snakebite and Black in the other. For balance. I once dabbled in Lesbiana but couldn’t fully commit because, like a London cab driver, I wouldn’t go south of the river.”
Abi’s stand up show Anglichanka, which was about living and studying in Russia, gained her several 5 star rave reviews and the show toured the UK.
She was the first comedian to do shows in Moscow in both English and Russian, as Abi explains “My father was a spy… sorry, diplomat, so I went to the Soviet Union as a kid and then in the early 1990s I studied opera at the Moscow Conservatoire. Over the years, I’ve met many people who have been persecuted by the Soviet regime, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, so I have an inbuilt hatred of all authoritarian bastards who encourage denouncement and punish freedom of speech.”
She has appeared as a guest comedian on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek, Saturday Live and BBC Radio Scotland’s The Janice Forsyth Show, and ITV’s Good Morning Britain, debating mandatory vaccine passports opposite Edwina Currie.
As a writer, Abi has written for several publications including Spiked and The Times.
Abi is a regular commentator on GB News, You can see her on Tonight Live with Dan Wootton and Mark Dolan and she also appears regularly on Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech Nation as well as Nana Akua’s weekend Debate show on GB News every Friday from 4-6pm.
Twice monthly she joins Ann Widdecombe and Emma Webb in Widdecombe Webb & Woberts streamed LIVE on the New Culture Forum YouTube channel and also contributes regularly on Talk Radio & Times Radio and you can see her in person at the Backyard Comedy Club on Sunday 10th April.
Follow and support Abi at the following links
Website: https://abiroberts.com/
GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/abiroberts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abiroberts?s=20&t=gcvve1Ik83YEhvKcEo_aWA
Instagram: https://instagram.com/abirobertscomedy?utm_medium=copy_link
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AbiRobertsComedyDiva
Originally broadcast as a live news discussion 26.2.22
Audio Podcast version available at https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ and all major podcast directories.
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Links to stories discussed in this episode
Abi on Ukraine/Russia
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497167450785394692?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
Welsh comic Abi Roberts is first UK stand up to perform in Russia - in Russian Jan 2016
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/comedy-news/welsh-comic-abi-roberts-first-10794089
Ukraine and Russia: Is the media telling us the truth
https://twitter.com/BeckkieParnell/status/1497292660679315459
Not one journalist has asked who Zelensky is, and what he has done to Ukraine
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497495530443788288
Boris Johnson has signalled that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, could face war crimes charges over the invasion of Ukraine
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497260226147454981
BREAKING: Formula One cancels 2022 Russian Grand Prix - But taking part in the Winter Olympics in Beijing was fine?
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497225547390328833?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
It's come to this. Chinese Embassy Ottawa highlighting Canadian brutality
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1496721841381163012?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
Covid
And while we were fixated on #russiaukraine ...A National Vaccine Pass Has Quietly Rolled Out – And Red States Are Getting On Board
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/02/24/national-vaccine-quietly-rolled-out
Promising actor, 27, who appeared in Coronation Street in 2018 died after suffering a seizure while on holiday in Costa Rica, inquest hears
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1496968225246093314?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
New vaccine '100% effective against severe disease'
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-live-news-latest-covid-free-tests-boots-uk-12507015
Deutsche Telekom to build global COVID vaccine verification app for WHO
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/deutsche-telekom-build-global-covid-vaccine-verification-app-who-2022-02-23/?taid=6216530200131e0001dd2c0f&utm_campaign=trueAnthem: Trending Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
To Finish on
PIC: Media throwing out Covid as they want a war story now
https://twitter.com/1BJDJ/status/1497246422386843686?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
VIDEO: Putin making Biden fart
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1496951959848464392?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
PIC: Kerry Katona sends Vladimir Putin a warning
https://twitter.com/calimadu/status/1496873120002629638?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
Having lived and studied in Moscow in the nineties she will be giving her unfiltered opinion on the situation in Russia, looking closely at Ukrainian President Zelensky, telling us her memories of time spent there and then we look at PM Boris Johnson signalling that Putin should face war crimes over the invasion, Formula One cancels the Russian 2022 Grand Prix, Chinese Embassy in Canada highlights the tyranny and brutality seen in Canadian cities (pot calls kettle...), Red states quietly get on board with the vaccine passport, New vaccine promises 100% protection from severe disease, German tech giant builds global COVID vaccine app for the World Health Organisation and another 'rare' fatal seizure in young adults reported: this time a 27 year old actor from Coronation Street.
We finish with the fake news media throwing out COVID in exchange for war, Putin making Biden fart and troubled former British pop star sends a warning to Putin.... We bet he's shaking in his Ushanka!!!!
Abi Roberts is a British stand-up comedian, writer and commentator.
Abi became a professional stand-up in 2012, and since then has played some of the biggest clubs across the UK, and had several sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
She became a comedian because she wanted to write her own material and have the freedom to express her worldview – and make thousands of people laugh at the absurdity and wonder of life.
Abi does not worship at ‘The Church of Woke’! If you ask her how she identifies or what her gender pronouns are, she would give you this answer: “I’m a straight female who’s flattened a lot of grass. I spent much of my university days behind a club called Cinderella’s with a cone of chips in one hand and a pint of Snakebite and Black in the other. For balance. I once dabbled in Lesbiana but couldn’t fully commit because, like a London cab driver, I wouldn’t go south of the river.”
Abi’s stand up show Anglichanka, which was about living and studying in Russia, gained her several 5 star rave reviews and the show toured the UK.
She was the first comedian to do shows in Moscow in both English and Russian, as Abi explains “My father was a spy… sorry, diplomat, so I went to the Soviet Union as a kid and then in the early 1990s I studied opera at the Moscow Conservatoire. Over the years, I’ve met many people who have been persecuted by the Soviet regime, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, so I have an inbuilt hatred of all authoritarian bastards who encourage denouncement and punish freedom of speech.”
She has appeared as a guest comedian on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek, Saturday Live and BBC Radio Scotland’s The Janice Forsyth Show, and ITV’s Good Morning Britain, debating mandatory vaccine passports opposite Edwina Currie.
As a writer, Abi has written for several publications including Spiked and The Times.
Abi is a regular commentator on GB News, You can see her on Tonight Live with Dan Wootton and Mark Dolan and she also appears regularly on Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech Nation as well as Nana Akua’s weekend Debate show on GB News every Friday from 4-6pm.
Twice monthly she joins Ann Widdecombe and Emma Webb in Widdecombe Webb & Woberts streamed LIVE on the New Culture Forum YouTube channel and also contributes regularly on Talk Radio & Times Radio and you can see her in person at the Backyard Comedy Club on Sunday 10th April.
Follow and support Abi at the following links
Website: https://abiroberts.com/
GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/abiroberts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abiroberts?s=20&t=gcvve1Ik83YEhvKcEo_aWA
Instagram: https://instagram.com/abirobertscomedy?utm_medium=copy_link
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AbiRobertsComedyDiva
Originally broadcast as a live news discussion 26.2.22
Audio Podcast version available at https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ and all major podcast directories.
To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more go to https://heartsofoak.org/connect/
Please like, subscribe & share!
Links to stories discussed in this episode
Abi on Ukraine/Russia
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497167450785394692?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
Welsh comic Abi Roberts is first UK stand up to perform in Russia - in Russian Jan 2016
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/comedy-news/welsh-comic-abi-roberts-first-10794089
Ukraine and Russia: Is the media telling us the truth
https://twitter.com/BeckkieParnell/status/1497292660679315459
Not one journalist has asked who Zelensky is, and what he has done to Ukraine
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497495530443788288
Boris Johnson has signalled that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, could face war crimes charges over the invasion of Ukraine
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497260226147454981
BREAKING: Formula One cancels 2022 Russian Grand Prix - But taking part in the Winter Olympics in Beijing was fine?
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497225547390328833?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
It's come to this. Chinese Embassy Ottawa highlighting Canadian brutality
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1496721841381163012?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
Covid
And while we were fixated on #russiaukraine ...A National Vaccine Pass Has Quietly Rolled Out – And Red States Are Getting On Board
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/02/24/national-vaccine-quietly-rolled-out
Promising actor, 27, who appeared in Coronation Street in 2018 died after suffering a seizure while on holiday in Costa Rica, inquest hears
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1496968225246093314?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
New vaccine '100% effective against severe disease'
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-live-news-latest-covid-free-tests-boots-uk-12507015
Deutsche Telekom to build global COVID vaccine verification app for WHO
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/deutsche-telekom-build-global-covid-vaccine-verification-app-who-2022-02-23/?taid=6216530200131e0001dd2c0f&utm_campaign=trueAnthem: Trending Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
To Finish on
PIC: Media throwing out Covid as they want a war story now
https://twitter.com/1BJDJ/status/1497246422386843686?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
VIDEO: Putin making Biden fart
https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1496951959848464392?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
PIC: Kerry Katona sends Vladimir Putin a warning
https://twitter.com/calimadu/status/1496873120002629638?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g
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