Comedians Jessie Cave and Alfie Brown have got a bright idea. They’ve been a couple on and off for 10 years but now have decided to start working together. First with a joint work-in-progress show that they will preview at the Edinburgh festival fringe this summer. Then, if all goes to plan, with a podcast. “I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of a couples’ podcast?” Brown says. “The working title is Before We Break Up Again.”
He’s joking – and there might not be a podcast any time soon. But the prospective name for their shared venture is revealing. “Lots of people go: we just want to have a bit of time for us before we have any children. Well, we’ve never had any time for us,” says Brown. Cave got pregnant with their first child after a one-night stand, before they were even an item. Since then, they have had three more children, broken up twice and got back together again both times. “We started our relationship at level 8, without any of the lessons you learn on level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7,” says Brown. Cave agrees: “We definitely have a different rulebook.”
