Others have Welsh parents and are interested in their family heritage.""I'm trying to boost the audience by getting more Welsh people in," she joked.The versatile actress, writer and musician introduced a three-minute song in Welsh into her act at the Edinburgh Fringe over the summer, which she will repeat the song at an upcoming gig at London's Bloomsbury Theatre."My boyfriend's from Carmarthen and I spend a lot of time there and in north Wales," she said."I got sick of listening to everyone speaking Welsh in the house and not being able to join in, so I decided to start learning it myself."But since beginning a relationship with Welsh comedian Elis James almost two years ago, she has spent more and more time in west and north Wales.She duly enrolled in a beginners class in London."It's the mutations I find the hardest. Why Isy Suttie - … Along the way, Isy picks up a bit of morse code. Isy Suttie Portrays Esther Blanco UK or US UK Isobel Jane Suttie was born on August 11, 1978, in Kingston upon Hull. Isy Suttie recounts the tale of the Crank, a Matlock oddball who Isy's mother has roped into helping Isy study the Welsh language. Isy Suttie sings a profound Welsh love song live from the BBC tent at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011. Up-and-coming English comedy star Isy Suttie explains how she came to start learning Welsh - and use it in her stage act. BBC Home > BBC News > South West Wales. Isy Suttie recounts the tale of the Crank, a Matlock oddball who Isy's mother has roped into helping Isy study the Welsh language. and nos da (goodnight), she soon realised there was more to speaking Welsh than she bargained for - including the mutations when certain words change their spelling when next to others."One or two of them are people who were born in Wales, and have Welsh accents. She is a stand-up comedian, writer, composer, musician and actress. Along the way, Isy picks up a bit of morse code.Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; quite often she's intervened, changing the action dramatically - for better or worse. Menu.
It would certainly be a challenge.""Most of the people on my course are over 50, people like me who have spare time in the middle of the day," said Suttie."The flyer has a line on it which reads: 'Contains three minutes of Welsh'," said Suttie, who was seen last year alongside Alan Davies in the BBC's hotel kitchen-based comedy series Whites."It's taking quite a long time," she said."I'd love to find a Welsh-speaking driving instructor in London, though I'd probably need to learn some key words like 'left' and 'right'.""I'd just had a pint of cider and had had nothing to eat beforehand and I said to Tudur that next year I would do five minutes in Welsh," said Suttie. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. They don't tell you about that before you start - or maybe it's in the small print.In the meantime, however, she says she has an important decision to make on continuing her Welsh lessons.It was while she was at this year's comedy festival in Machynlleth with her boyfriend and fellow Welsh comedian Tudur Owen, that the plan to do an entire stand-up act in Welsh was - accidentally, she explained - hatched."Elis thinks I'm doing really well," said Suttie. "It's hard for him but he's so supportive.""Elis and I speak Welsh for about 10 minutes every day and I'm lucky that we can do that as quite a lot of the people on my course don't have that."Now, after deciding to take the plunge and learn the language, she has introduced a new dimension to her stage routine.She admits she is "nowhere near fluent" but tries to brush up by watching the BBC's Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm - shown on Welsh language channel S4C - whenever she can."I'd like to do it. I looked up her Edinburgh and Beyond bit. Thanks, Having only seen her on panel shows, I didn't realize that Isy Suttie is a musical comedian. Welsh-born comic who appeared in Chris Corcoran’s Committee Meeting in 2008 & 2009 and hosted a television music program called Bandit. She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show, and in 2013 won the golden Sony Radio Academy Award for her radio show Pearl and Dave. It's where your interests connect you with your people.