Francesca Martinez

Comedians feature on fake stamps for charity campaign

Rosie Jones, Lost Voice Guy Lee Ridley and Francesca Martinez have been commemorated on stamps. However, it's nothing to do with the Royal Mail - but a campaign urging the NHS to stop treating people with cerebral palsy like second-class citizens.

Report: Jeremy Hardy's memorial service

Friends and family of Jeremy Hardy gathered to celebrate his life on Monday 13th May at the Battersea Arts Centre.

Opinion: stop using disability as a cheap comedy device

Sacha Baron Cohen playing a disabled veteran in his new series might have caused controversy, but he's doing nothing others haven't done before.

Lost Voice Guy's win a watershed moment for disability?

On Sunday evening, Britain's Got Talent drew to a close and this year's winner was crowned. Nothing unusual there. But Lost Voice Guy's victory wasn't just notable because he was the first comedian to win in the show's history - but also because he has cerebral palsy. Furthermore, the runner-up, another comedian named Robert White, has Asperger syndrome.

Francesca Martinez on self-acceptance and disability

Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. "An act of liberation." This is the advice self-proclaimed "wobbly" comedian Francesca Martinez shared with her audience at Teviot House.

Radio Times review

The show moves to BBC Two, where Alan Carr kicks off about "people who've got too much to say for themselves... always got an opinion". So I'll say nothing about his warm-up routine on Trip Advisor, skin disorders, school photos and Jack the Ripper walks. But if the comedy doesn't work out, Alan, you'd make a great tourist guide.

First on is Francesca Martinez who uses her cerebral palsy (or wobbliness as she calls it) for both laughs and political point scoring. Finally Nish Kumar does a scorching riff on the lack of right-wing comedians and left-wing action movies, before ripping into the political incorrectness of board games.

Comedians let rip at People's Assembly event

Frankie Boyle, Sara Pascoe, Robin Ince and Francesca Martinez joined forces at the Manchester Academy for a night of 'jokes' at the expense of the Tories.

Francesca Martinez inspires everyone with her attitude

The 37-year-old appeared on This Morning chatting about her attitude to life as a comedian with cerebral palsy, and explained that her stint on Grange Hill helped her accept who she is.

Francesca Martinez on accepting disability

After years of being defined by her cerebral palsy, the comedian, author and actor had an epiphany. She decided to stop trying to fit in and just accept herself - 'wobbliness' and all.

Disable comedian speaks: What The **** Is Normal?

Francesca Martinez has been a familiar face since her days as Rachel in the children's soap opera, Grange Hill. Oddly, it wasn't the fact that she as disabled that was most apparent to her real school peers or that she was on telly, it was the fact that she didn't even have a telly that caught the attention of other kids determined to give her a hard time: "How can I miss a lot of school legally and suddenly I got offered this part on Grange Hill. It felt like I'd won the lottery and of course all the girls hated me even more than they did already."