Rosie Holt is a British actor, comedian, and satirist. She started her satirical videos, Woman Who..., released on her Twitter feed,[3] during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.[4]The Guardian newspaper noted her "strong line in parodies of the [type of] political speech that veers into drivel."[4]
Holt jointly wrote and performed as part of the double act Holt and Talbot, alongside Christian Talbot, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in both 2017[6] and 2018.[7] Holt is one of several satirists who subsequently found a popular online niche for her art during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
In August 2013, Holt's entry in The Sitcom Trials, 'Never Better', was selected as winner[citation needed]. In October 2021, Holt was interviewed about her success online as part of a Backstage magazine article.[9] She also appeared in an online educational workshop aimed at Buckinghamshire schools, using the short-form comedic video as an example of a new method of communication.[10]
In August 2021, Holt was featured in a newspaper story in the Daily Mirror after the dating app Hinge suggested that her 'most compatible match' would be her brother, Charlie. Her tweet relaying the story attracted 23,000 likes within two days.[5]
January 2022 was a period of intense political controversy about Partygate, and an official report was expected from the Cabinet Office Second Permanent Secretary, Sue Gray. In a satirical video sketch released to Twitter, Holt played the part of a Tory MP being asked by an interviewer whether she had or had not attended a Downing Street party. The video was created by splicing the interviewee's responses with actual footage of questions from a Sky News reporter to Boris Johnson, in which he had dodged questions about whether he had gone to the party. Her response – that until Sue Gray completes her report "your guess is as good as mine: I don't know whether I attended the party" – generated an outraged response from some viewers who missed the satire and who thought that the interviewee was a real MP.[4]
