Emmy Award nominated, multi-award winning comedy writer Christine Rose tells us her father was a veterinary surgeon. She jokes about how, one day, inadvertently taking animal drugs cured her eye infection. Christine talks about making up funny stories when she was a child, how she could always make her dad laugh. Her father finally understood her job when she got writing credit on ‘Have I Got News For You’. Christine remembers her dad was not good with technology and how her mother thought pausing live TV might somehow pause life itself. We hear about Christine’s childhood imaginary friend who lived in the airing cupboard and how the phrase ‘Cloudy Apple Juice,’ can never deter her from enjoying the odd glass of wine.

Christine Rose has written for some of the most influential comedians on TV and radio and received an Emmy Award nomination for The Reluctant Traveler in 2024. Find out more about Christine here! https://www.gloriousmanagement.com/artists/christine-rose

00:00 Intro to Me? I Blame The parents

00:53 Stephen K Amos introduces Emmy-Award nominated comedy writer Christine Rose.

01:36 Stephen K Amos jokes about how his father coming to stay with him during lockdown gave him the idea for making this podcast.

04:51 Christine Rose introduces her father, born in 1935, a veterinary surgeon from Essex who relocated to Cornwall when they were children.

05:43 Christine Rose mentions her older sister Catherine, who inadvertently inspired Christine’s comedy career.

06:19 We hear about Christine’s childhood imaginary friend called Nano Kanan, who lived in the airing cupboard outside her sister’s bedroom.

07:14 Christine’s father’s job was to medically treat large farm animals, and she jokes that when they were sick as children, her dad would just give them animal drugs.

12:45 Christine’s earliest memories are of accompanying her dad to treat sick animals and Stephen K Amos’ earliest memory is of being in a house fire - all for the sake of a home cooked chicken.

15:46 Christine talks about how her dad spotted her creativity from a young age and how she was always able to make him laugh.

19:36 Christine reflects on whether her parents have mellowed with age and how women tend to relax as they grow older, but men can become fixated on little things.

21:30 Christine talks about how her father could do anything practical and was drowning in skills, but he just could not be bothered with technology.

24:02 Christine’s mum was very unsure about the option to pause live TV and wondered if she pushed the button, she might get stuck in the past and have to live 20 minutes behind everyone else.

25:18 Christine’s dad was a frugal man who loved a good trip to B&Q, but he showed a strange display of ingratitude when she bought him some garden furniture.

30:30 The moment Christine’s dad came to appreciate her job was when she got a writer’s credit on Have I Got News For You.

31:46 Christine Rose recalls her father’s motto ‘There’s cloudy apple juice!’ as a way to stop her from drinking wine.

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