I spent the last twenty years of my work life training people with traumatic brain injury. I loved it when they could begin to see the humor in their problems with speech and memory. When I would say something outlandish, they would say, " Now, who has the brain injury here? " The laughter helps to overcome the fear and stigma. The brain and body relax and function actually improves. Laughing WITH someone, rather than AT them is a gift! Nina and Monkey have given us all that gift today!

Nina, you are amazing and so is your new friend! This is exactly what we all need, to normalize the spectrum of human behavior and stop compartmentalization everything that deviates from the norm. Thank you both!

I love that Jess can see the humour in her condition. The fact that she has made a career out of this thing she cannot control is remarkable. If you laugh, you’re not laughing at her, you are laughing with her.

This is just wonderful! Many thanks to all of you. Please give us more. Biscuit!

I was eating biscuits and playing Sonic Origins whilst listening to Jess. I’ve stammered all my life and can relate to everything Jess said. I think it’s a wonderful interview and love to see more between Nina, Jess and Monkey.

This miraculous and wonderful. And so very human.

Thanks Nina. That was great but too short!

Nina, Jess, this is so good. Thank you both for this short conversation. Ok and now I'm in the mood for biscuits. Luckily it's advent time.

Wow, what an amazing education I just got 👏 You Four are completely adorable together. Thank you so much 💓

This was wonderful. I’m so glad to have seen this. I’m really hoping that we’ll see more of this conversation (or another conversation with Jess). Thank you.

I didn’t realise I even needed this in my life……I do!! This is fantastic 😂

Unexpectedly hilarious! Especially after Monkey got involved. I agree with other commenters in that the video should have been longer - maybe four or five minutes of Jess 'n' Monkey interaction? Great stuff as usual tho', Nina.

What the 😆 this was just amazing on so many levels

Absolutely nothing wrong with your brain Nina. You have a greater connection with your creative mind than most. All genius moments/thoughts come 'out of the blue' and bright-mindedness merely facilitates the arrival of those thoughts. Enjoy yourself as much as we do. The monkey shower of love is yours to clean up, as nature intended.

🎉🎉🎉🎉 what a brilliant conversation!

This is wonderful. Nina and Jess sitting back and leaving monrkey and the ticks to it.

This is so cool! I know someone with Tourette’s and every day chores like cooking meals, cleaning and laundry are very dangerous for her because she randomly flails and throws stuff so a pot of boiling water or some toxic cleaning chemicals can be very dangerous for her. It doesn’t stop her from doing anything but it scares the hell out of most people from hanging out with her. Jess seems to be very cool and I already envy her because she’s friends with Nina and Monkey! 🐵

Loved that Nina, thank you

Haven't seen jess on anything for a while, i do love her.

More of this. This is amazing. I’d listen to an hour of it.

Wonderful, magical, inspiring - I could go on but you know what I mean! 😂❤😂

Brilliant need more x

Amazing.

Someone get this lady a Pillsbury brand deal

We all have mannerisms and quirks that make us unique .

It doesn't surprise me at all that Nina enjoys Jess's tics.

Why does it just seem like Nina has a good soul.

She immediately made me think of the video of the tourettes uber driver that picked up a tourettes passenger :)

Nina lounging on that chair like the queen that she is.

Absolutely loved this video ..biscuit ..hexagon

I think Monkey is the suppressed tourettes part of Nina's brain :)

When I was a teen there was this guy in town who had tourettes and would lick his fingertip, say _"croak!"_ loudly and poke at whatever or whoever was closest to the front of him. He was alright, but you had to learn to dodge the freshly salivated fingertip poke. Edit: Is there no more of this? I loved the banter at the end especially. 😊

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An octopus with a gun. Lol.

We all have things in life that we try to overcome but I struggle to see monkey as anything other than real.

I love Jess. But... and I hope this doesn't make me sound like an arsehole... I also find this very confronting and honestly a little difficult to watch. This sort of thing really makes me aware how fragile the human brain is, how susceptible it is to disruption, and how much of our core being is just the product of neurons firing in a grey lump of organic matter. It's the same reason I find dementia extremely confronting and discomfiting - not that it's at all the same as Tourette's, of course.

What was amazing about this sketch is that when Monkey came out (of the bag), the engagement with Jess was just a comedic conversation, and I forgot her diagnostic label. It wasn't important. Interesting...

Now I wanna see Granny vs Sweet Anita

Both people show a level beyond normal improv subconscious. It’s another layer of subconscious sandwich and the results are so funny 😂

This is something I never would have thought of. Did this happen by accident or was the idea of it an actual decision? I don't mean this gathering, but the initial gathering.

NAN'S TEETH

After watching this poodle I had to poodle check poodle poodle my chest for poodle bruises.

This is the best _biscuit_ with my coffee I've ever had.

I would have never guessed it, but I need more of this interaction in my life.

please post the interview with monkey about his sexual identity

Oh crumbs

Biscuit.

Biscuit

I've never known of someone referring to their tics like they're their own entity before. Theres something disturbing about that. Im not sure if thats a form of dissociating from them, but I cant see how it wouldn't be. And if that wasn't out of place of me to say then this might be, that I don't buy what she said about her tics being a mystery. I only say this because those tics are not just a sterile mental thing, its emotional. And the specific word that becomes a tic has its emotional origin. And so by mapping and charting her tics, the frequency of the individual tics and their combinations, charted against the situations and circumstances they come up, Im almost certain that you will find a pattern. And that pattern combined with the emotional origin of each tic, whether its actually the original emotion associated with the word, or an event that occurred in the past that made the word hold an emotion. I have a very strong feeling like it will reveal an entire story. But see, by not having the insight to this only supports my first point. That she's splitting, to a certain degree, separating from her tics by giving their own entity. This would be a way to deal and have to manage them, and lessen the emotional and mental burden it causes her. For whatever its worth, I don't know if I should mention that I have Autism, not as any justification entitling me to say whatever I want, only in that im not someone coming from a position of total abled ignorance, just possible some ignorance..

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😄😊😊 Classic. 🫂🫂❤️❤️