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Emma Kennedy

Emma Kennedy

  • 57 years old
  • English
  • Actor and writer

Press clippings

Politicians and comedians pay tribute to Janey Godley

Nicola Sturgeon hails "a force of nature, and one of the funniest people I have ever known".

Chortle, 2nd November 2024

Mark Dolan cuts up face mask on air

Mark Dolan has incurred the wrath of a portion of the comedy community and many others by publicly cutting up a face mask on his show on Talk Radio.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th September 2020

Comedy Women in Print judges revealed

Comedy performers Joanna Scanlan, Lolly Adefope and Pauline McLynn have joined the judges for the UK's only award celebrating witty female writers.

Chortle, 22nd January 2020

Emma Kennedy wins Radio Times 2016 comedy crown

The winner of the Comedy round in Radio Times' 2016 TV Champion is Emma Kennedy.

Kasia Delgado, Radio Times, 4th July 2016

Richard Herring crowdfunds new As It Occurs To Me series

Richard Herring has raised over £100,000 through Kickstarter to make a new series of his internet sketch show As It Occurs To Me.

British Comedy Guide, 5th April 2016

BBC One ends The Kennedys

Writer Emma Kennedy has confirmed that BBC One have declined a second series of her sitcom, The Kennedys.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd February 2016

Second series of The Kennedys in 2016?

Writer/creator Emma Kennedy was answering a Twitter enquiry about whether the first series would be available on DVD* and wrote: "Not for a very long time (ie next year when series 2 goes out)" she later added that "We don't know for SURE until end of Nov."

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th November 2015

Following the farcical exploits of 10-year-old Emma and her upwardly mobile parents on a "new town" estate in 70s Stevenage, Emma Kennedy's autobiographical sitcom has been consistently hilarious - and far from misty-eyed.

The Guardian, 2nd November 2015

Emma Kennedy on writing her new sitcom The Kennedys

Once upon a time Emma Kennedy was a lawyer, then she jacked it all in to become a comedy writer. Nine books and nearly 20 years later, her new BBC One sitcom proves the gamble has paid off, writes Claire Black.

Claire Black, The Scotsman, 17th October 2015

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