Sandi Toksvig | Cambridge Union
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Sandi Toksvig speaks in the debating chamber on Sunday 5th November at 7:30pm.
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Sandi Toksvig, a much-loved radio and television presenter, began her comedy career whilst at Girton College, Cambridge where she found time to write and perform in the first all-woman show at the Footlights as well as achieve a first-class degree.
Since playing Ethel in the long-running Saturday-morning show Number 73, her career has included celebrated series such as QI, The Great British Bake Off, The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge, and The News Quiz.
Much of Sandi’s time is devoted to writing. Her work includes more than 20 fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults.
In 2019, she became president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. Sandi is an activist for gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights. She received an OBE in 2014 and in 2015 she co-founded Britain’s newest political party, the Women’s Equality Party.
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I love this woman and her passionate spirit so much!!
Sandi is the best! Not only is she an absolutely brilliant speaker and presenter; but she is hilarious!
Watching from the South of Brazil where macho is still alive and well. Thank you for the information and the passion!
This hour went by so fast. Also, it was so nice to hear Sandi refer to each one asking a question by their names or lovely or sweetheart. Such a lovely speech/interview!
Intelligence really is a spectrum.
The earth needs more people like Sandi, great value. Much respect to her!
I agree wholeheartedly 😊❤
What is a woman, Sandi? 🧐
Sandi's become more charmingly Danish with age. I love her pronunciation of 'o'.
Oh I adore her so warm and fuzzy!
Since childhood I always sooo dreamt for my fantasy adopted parents to be Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig.
Those are the two warmest fuzziest people on Earth!
You'll always be a hero to me Sandi ❤
I didn’t go to Oxford or Cambridge but humans aren’t fish!!
Did you even listen to her talk?
"I didn't go to Cambridge or Oxford"...color me surprised.
Um, you did not have to tell us that. And just to mess with your mind alil more, there is No Such Thing As A Fish!
I’ve known a few fish humans, some are wet, some are sneaky and some just stink the plaice up 😂
@@jamesmcfadden6781 😂
Where did the MC get her accent?!
RP? Someone told her she needed to sound "posh".
Toksvig managed to transition from "American" to a reasonably neutral English accent. Why can't the MC?
Toksvig is , as usual, erudite and concise.
And I don't blame the MC from "conforming" to the norm. It's just sad that she felt the need.
As for those that limit their participation in the human experience, we can only, as Sandi says, feel sorry for them.
READ everything! If you learn only ONE fact that changes your perception of the World, you haven't wasted your time.
It's hard to believe (I do) this happened to Sandy's family in 1994.
It's obvious from the transphobic comments to this one video that there's still a lot of ignorance and hatred out there. The people doing that are EXACTLY the same kind of people who tried to kick her out if Girton because she was a lesbian and who continue to threaten her and her family. I am not quite as old as Toksvig, but the hatred direct at not just trans, but all LGBTQ+ people today is disturbingly the same as it was when I was growing up. The "protect the children" mantra was used against gay people then (and now) and it's being whipped up in exactly the same way against trans people. I frankly admire her optimism, because I must admit that mine is daunted from what I've seen in my lifetime, even with the progress we've made.
As a Duke, mi mantra is keep on laughing, it annoys the bigots
Fun game: take a shot every time you hear the phrase "kind of" - you won't make it to the end of the video!
that was interesting to hear that many times from someone who studies at Cambridge, but I'm sure she was just nervous.
@@Saanyooo I'm fairly sure that Sandi referred to the young lady in question as the Equalities Officer, in which case she's an employee of the University, not a student. Either way, all sorts of people use all sorts of verbal "fillers", some people "um" and "ah", others say "do you know what I mean?", etc., I think people use them to signify they've not finished yet and have more to say and rather than have silence (when the listener or others may interrupt) use these fillers as thinking time to then continue. Of you record yourself in a similar scenario you may be surprised.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Passion! Well said Sandi.😄
I love sandi, ok. Disclaimer! However ,not but, just before she said it I wondered about my position over shop jobs versus warehouse. My husband being a warehouse worker for a well known supermarket. Really sandi, bottom line some of the women working in the supermarket may be capable of the mind destroying , lonely, cruel work of being in a large cage that takes you at speed to where your next pick is. There is so much more to say on this subject. I'm aware it could make me guilty of repeating the old system of strong men being the wage earners for a family while the woman keeps house ,children, part time shop job. But what I really want to shout about is that some of us men and women are still in that kind of UK. It's a big class issue, it's now and it's real. I would really like you people in ivory towers to be aware of this reality of people who's fellow villagers live on the streets, on drugs, by choice. Come to stoke on Trent.
For those working with Ai, remember they will often answer 'it's a giraffe'... the thinking is, an Ai's knowledge is based on electronic information = most electronic information is 'outstanding', 'outliers'. 'outlandish', and now we know it is biased by the writers/overwriters too :) Also remember the first law of computers = GiGo :) Garbage in/Garbage out
What a beautiful and passionate speaker!
What a splendid activist and story teller.
Story teller indeed. Complete fiction and out of touch with reality.
@@MrSteve_Luddite. Now then, here you are. I've been expecting you, Mr Bond.
What an incredible person ❤
Feels as though selling out women and girls on their own sport might be why her political party just crumbled. I suppose she wishes to go down with the ship, honorable in a nihilistic kinda way I guess.
I love this amazing person.
“Defending free speech since 1815.” Lol.
Sorry Sandi. Stacking shelves in a supermarket is not at all the same as stacking them in a warehouse. The latter is considerably more physically demanding.
@@mikelheron20 In America our wearhouse workers use forklifts . We have been using them for the last 50 years. They work really well.
Amazing session, made me buy her latest book!
thinking to do the same :)
Bet Sandi was miffed with that lame intro as having presented “GBBO and QI” - after all the books she’s written and other shows she’s starred in!!!
OMG WHAT A JOY!
I'm struggling.. In history Florence Nightingale IS known as the 'lady of the lamp' to attempt some word salad and say the soldiers of the Crimea knew that is bahookie. Really you can't take anything a comedian says seriously so it's all good. When observing the arts it is subjective. There is no good or bad art. We are left with the overwhelming feeling of being spoken to by the stasi. Is that art?
Lovely! And Brilliant. Thank you.
Everytime I need to be put at rest and to be encouraged, I head for a video with Sandi Toksvig in it.
Wow. The best use of supercilious sarcasm I have ever heard.
❤ Sandi
While I love Sandi, I also stand by the teachings of the Bible. 🙏
Then I hope you act as her devout catholic friend did when she was shunned at Girton.
Excellent Sandi so informative
Love you Sandi.
Beautiful.
Thank you