Desiree Burch

Come As You Are with Helen Duff

Desiree Burch is a comedian, writer, solo performer, actor and NY-to-London transplant. She exploded onto the UK comedy scene in 2015, winning the Funny Women Award, and since then, she has appeared on, ‘Live at the Apollo’ (BBC), 'The Mash Report', 'Mock the Week, ‘Frankie Boyle’s New World Order' (BBC2), 'Live from the BBC' (BBC3), ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Qi’ (BBC), ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’ (Channel 4), and co-hosted ‘Officially Amazing’ (CBBC). She’s been heard on ‘The News Quiz’ (BBCR4), The Now Show (BBCR4), ‘It’s Not What You Know’ (BBCR4) and on podcasts such as ‘Welcome to Night Vale’, ‘The Guilty Feminist’ and ‘The Adam Buxton Podcast’. Catch her in Comedy Central Special 'Desiree Burch Live' and as the narrator of Netflix dating show "Too Hot to Handle" now, and follow her on @destheray on Instagram and Twitter.

In this episode, we hear what inspired Helen to make a podcast all about orgasms in the first place, before diving deep with Desiree about how her past experiences working as a dominatrix in New York, studying at Yale University, and growing up as a fat person of colour in a very white, very image obsessed area of California impacted her relationship with sex, orgasm and selfhood. Plus craigslist, lyrical f*cks, and how Hot Chip defined a generation of awkward encounters.

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Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes by Helen Duff, arranged by Paddy Gervers; edited by Lorna Treen; produced by Helen Duff, Lorna Treen and Daisy Grant.

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This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson.

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