While she had a dry run at travelogues with the C4/YouTube series Mission: Accessible, which gauged disability access at various UK attractions, Trip Hazard is the first show she has fronted that doesn’t make an issue of her disability. Photograph: Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/Rex/Shutterstock Jones on stage at Latitude festival, 2019. She’s done Live at the Apollo, has her own BBC Radio 4 standup vehicle Box Ticker, and even acquired that essential notch in any modern comic’s bedpost – spurious outrage – when an “inappropriate” gag about Greta Thunberg got Twitter in a lather a year ago. Having cut her teeth working in TV production, and as a writer on shows such as The Last Leg, Jones is now a fixture on the starrier side of the cameras. When she worked out how to use this to her advantage, delivering in her own sweet time far more subversive punchlines than the audience expected, a standup career took flight. She once ruled out a career performing comedy “because people would get to my punchlines before I did”. The aforementioned “speaking slowly” is a symptom of her ataxic cerebral palsy, which also affects her movement. I feel like the luckiest person in comedy.” And I’ve gone out and filmed a primetime Channel 4 travel show. But, she says, “I’ve not stopped working. OK, so her gig at the prestigious Melbourne comedy festival was nixed, and a Tokyo Paralympics presenting role went south. While the last 12 months have been an unmitigated disaster for most live comedians, Jones’s star has kept rising, and the work keeps rolling in. Silly, smart and narrated by Olivia Colman, it is unlikely to be the last. It is, says Jones, “the first show I’ve done where I’m the head of it”.
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