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Chris McCausland Says Wife Stopped Asking How She Looks in Candid Memoir

The comedian uses Keep Laughing to show how blindness reshapes routine moments in a marriage.

Overview

  • UK outlets on November 23 highlighted passages from Keep Laughing where McCausland reflects on the everyday realities of married life with blindness.
  • He writes that Patricia no longer asks appearance check-in questions because he cannot reliably answer them.
  • McCausland says she once asked what he thought she looked like but stopped after his responses failed to satisfy.
  • He details limits on shared visual experiences, from Rio de Janeiro’s colors that do not translate to missing out on art galleries and ballet.
  • The memoir notes he lost his sight in his early twenties, met Patricia at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, married in 2012, and credits her support with enabling his rise on stage and TV.