How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
by Elizabeth Day · 3 Apr 2019 · 284pp · 95,029 words
commentators who argued that having a succession of famous people on the podcast to bemoan lost cricket matches (Sebastian Faulks) or embarrassing one-night stands (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) was an egregious form of humble-bragging. Their argument seemed to be that if a person ended up successful, then they couldn’t possibly have
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I never have. Schooldays were categorically not the best days of my life and, in fact, I still have nightmares about them. On the podcast, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of the Bafta-winning Fleabag, spoke about the ‘duality’ she felt at school. At home she had been raised to be strong-minded and
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older I got, the more it became clear that I really slipped between the cracks somehow. And it is so hard to get back in.’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge struggled to get the parts she wanted at RADA and felt so broken down by her tutors that she lost confidence and spent much of
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surviving your twenties makes you realise is that life, after all, is texture. ‘I feel like I did it [my twenties], I committed to it,’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge said when I spoke to her about her own decade of transition. ‘I’d really like to have the skin from my twenties,’ she joked
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of this and it’s true that one of the great things about failing at dating is that it gives you so many entertaining anecdotes. Phoebe Waller-Bridge was inspired to write much of Fleabag by a string of romantic failures in her twenties. ‘I think fighting so hard to be so in
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to feel I’m winning at being like someone else. This has been something that has come up again and again in my conversations with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who as well as being a podcast guest is actually a friend and one of the only people I will ever do karaoke with. We
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forty-two countries. Similarly, the hit comedy series Fleabag had at its core the story of a friendship between two women, partly inspired by creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s real-life best friend, Vicky Jones, with whom she founded the production company Dry Write. At the time I interviewed Waller-Bridge for the
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needed younger women to help us plant a flag in the summit of our anger and to colonise it as part of our internal landscape. Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been a pioneer in bringing female anger to the fore of our collective consciousness, both in Fleabag and her hit female serial-killer drama
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
by Phoebe Robinson · 14 Oct 2021 · 265pp · 93,354 words
go, because that’s the point of living in New York City. Now this isn’t some theory I made up, such as “because of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s astronomical success in Hollywood, when I finally make it, I’m only going to be known as ‘Black Phoebe.’ ” The truth is people do
Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
by Peter Biskind · 6 Nov 2023 · 543pp · 143,084 words
ran way more female-made and woman-driven series than any other service, not only Transparent, I Love Dick, Good Girls Revolt, One Mississippi, but Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and several others. If Price feels that the punishment didn’t fit
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are that it will become no more than a footpath choked by a tangle of roots and weeds. Amazon signed one of those prestige talents, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, coming off Season 2 of Fleabag in 2019, to a $20 million a year three-year deal that came to nothing, but was renewed anyway
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix
by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski · 18 Apr 2022 · 414pp · 117,581 words
. Maisel, an hour-long comedy about an Upper West Side Jewish divorcée who breaks into stand-up comedy in the 1950s; Fleabag, an adaptation of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning play about a young woman coping with life in London; Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, which follows an up-and-coming CIA
How to Work Without Losing Your Mind
by Cate Sevilla · 14 Jan 2021
actually two different things, even though they tend to travel together.1 Envy is when we feel we lack a desired attribute enjoyed by another. (‘Phoebe Waller-Bridge is so funny and talented; I want to be a multi-Emmy and BAFTA award-winning actress and screenwriter, too!’) Jealousy is when something we
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and work from home and feel good about your life and work balance – doing it in bed in your pyjamas ain’t great. (Just because Phoebe Waller-Bridge does it doesn’t mean you should.)3 For us mere mortals, showering, brushing our teeth and putting on some proper clothing – even if it
The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker · 3 Mar 2020 · 279pp · 90,888 words
and colleagues add up to only a minority. On the evening of Johnson’s suspension of parliament we went to a West End theatre, where Phoebe Waller-Bridge, to the delight of a rapt audience, spent eighty minutes talking about her vagina in character as Fleabag. Extraordinary events convulsed the UK’s public
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
by Amanda Montell · 14 Jun 2021 · 244pp · 73,700 words
tell them which to pick. “I want someone to tell me what to wear every morning. I want someone to tell me what to eat,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s thirty-three-year-old character confesses to her priest (the hot one) in season 2 of her Emmy-winning series Fleabag. “What to hate
The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak
by Rosie Wilby · 26 May 2021 · 227pp · 67,264 words
for a creative ‘wife’, an artistic soulmate who wants to take on the comedy world together. I always feel super-jealous when I read about Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her ‘love-affair friendship’1 with Vicky Jones, who directed the first stage version of Fleabag at Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. I had a