Ruth Jones in costume as Nessa (Gavin & Stacey)
Oh, what’s occurring?
I first remember noticing Ruth Jones as a performer in the darkly grotesque comedy Nighty Night, penned by the brilliantly odd Julia Davis, where Jones played a much put-upon and not terribly bright assistant to Davis’ manipulative monster Jill.
Jones stole every scene she was in, so I was glad to see her pop up a few years later as long-suffering barmaid Myfanwy in Little Britain, forever unable to get Dafydd to accept that he’s not in fact the only gay in the village at all.
She recently popped up on my radar again as one of the principal characters in the British hit comedy Gavin & Stacey (playing Stacey’s best friend Nessa), but it wasn’t until I researched her for this post that I realised she’s actually a co-writer/creator of the show.
Ruth Jones as Linda with Julia Davis as Jill (Nighty Night)
![Matt Lucas (Dafydd) with Ruth Jones (Myfanwy) - [Little Britain]](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_04xrYUMQzNk/S5nit7egd-I/AAAAAAAADhU/mzdZly8kBiQ/s800/dafydd_myfanwy.jpg "Matt Lucas (Dafydd) with Ruth Jones (Myfanwy) - [Little Britain]")
Matt Lucas (Dafydd) with Ruth Jones (Myfanwy) - (Little Britain)
Jones and acting friend James Corden (who plays Gavin’s best friend Smithy) came up with the concept for a one-hour special about a wedding, and when they pitched it to the BBC it was suggested that they turn it into a 6 episode series showing how the couple met and ended up walking down the aisle. They haven’t looked back for the last three years, so hugely successful has the show been. Corden in particular has enjoyed the high life in London, while Jones is more grounded in Wales where she and her husband have a production company which aims to promote Welsh culture and talent.
James Corden and Ruth Jones
I largely started watching it because it was at least partly about the cultural divide between England and Wales, and my husband is Welsh, plus it had Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman and Julia Davis as part of the ensemble cast – who could resist?
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Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- The New Jim Crow
– “The mass incarceration of African Americans over the past 30 years is primarily related to the War on Drugs — a convenient cover for a program essentially targeted at the black community. The talking points all came back to the supposed rates of drug-related violence, but that doesn’t exactly compute with historical fact:”
- Will you pay us to lie to you?
– “Take the new US plan to encourage tourists wary of the country’s Bush-era hostility towards visitors (you know, where they fingerprint incoming foreigners like criminals) to come and visit again:”
- It’s time for action: 10 things you can do to stop the filter
– “There has been a lot of talk in the media and on Twitter over the past week about protests, rallies and other events to stop the Government’s mandatory Internet filter from ever becoming law. Electronic Frontiers Australia remains sceptical of the value and impact of those sorts of events. Rather, the most effective strategy is to apply pressure on our elected representatives, so that they know Australians are opposed to the filter and this issue will cost them votes, as well as the media, so that they give this issue the mainstream media coverage it deserves.”
- It’s just a game
– “That’s not all… Roebuck witters on to say that all the great sportsmen have wonderful, supportive wives at home. That may well be the case. But given his thundering misogyny, I’m willing to bet that if one of these great sportsmen and his wife had decided to bring that marriage to an end, then suddenly, the man’s “special contribution” would be all that mattered, and the wife’s on-going support that enabled the career would count for nothing.”
- Despair
– “There are moments/days where I read something so horrifying that I just utterly despair of society, of who we are, what we do, the people we produce, of the possibility of change and equality, of ‘humanity’.
Today’s story about a man in a wheelchair who was beaten (beaten doesn’t quite get at the brutality of the attack) with metal bars, punched, kiched, ’stomped on’ by two teenage boys.”
- Attacks on Detainee Lawyers Split Conservatives – NYTimes.com
– “Many conservatives, including members of the Federalist Society, the quarter-century-old policy group devoted to conservative and libertarian legal ideals, have vehemently criticized Ms. Cheney’s video, and say it violates the American legal principle that even unpopular defendants deserve a lawyer.”
- Op-Ed Contributor – P.S.A. prostate screening is inaccurate and a waste of money. – NYTimes.com
– “I never dreamed that my discovery four decades ago would lead to such a profit-driven public health disaster. The medical community must confront reality and stop the inappropriate use of P.S.A. screening. Doing so would save billions of dollars and rescue millions of men from unnecessary, debilitating treatments.”
- Book review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
– “Are you a scientist? If you’re not, I recommend that you read Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks because it’s a jolly decent popular science book.
But if you are, I urge you to read it, because it is not really a popular science book at all. “
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by tigtog on March 11, 2010
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While I realise that the lawyers tell you to stick an “allegedly” into sentences describing a crime, Marissa Callegeros, you got it very wrong this time.
Parents and teachers at a Brisbane Catholic boys school where a student was allegedly stabbed to death last month have denied suggestions of a culture of bullying at the college.
Elliott Fletcher is dead. He was stabbed and that stabbing caused his death. There is no “allegedly” that accurately fits into that statement.
I know that the intent is to be circumspect about the guilt of the other student who has been charged with the murder of Elliott, but the “allegedly” belongs somewhere in that collection of phrases a few paragraphs down the column, not in the sentences that describe Elliott’s death.
This is not just sloppy, it’s highly insensitive to the Fletcher family who know very well that Elliott is not just “allegedly” dead. Does the Brisbane Times not employ sub-editors any more?
