Janey Godley
- Scottish
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 21
Janey Godley meets a women who hates female comics
I stare at her and wonder how that can happen? How can a woman HATE all female comics?
Janey Godley, 11th April 2015Janey Godley leads Scottish Comedy Award nominations
Janey Godley has been nominated for four awards in the second Scottish Comedy Awards nominations, announced today.
Beyond The Joke, 1st April 2015My Glasgow: Janey Godley
Janey Godley is a stand-up, writer and actor. In her contribution to our My Glasgow series, she describes how she picked up the paint brush as a way to heal and to relax.
Janey Godley, The Skinny, 22nd March 2015Janey Godley: I'm playing free festival in Edinburgh
So I'm saying yes to Free Festival, don't see why I shouldn't. The Free Festival has become the fringe to the Fringe. I am looking forward to the experience. I have done the BIG venues for years and although I love my boys at the Underbelly and all the gang at Pleasance and Gilded etc... I am looking forward to striking out. There is a snobbery about the Free Festival with suggestions that it is there for 'people who cant get into the big professional venues'. Well I prove that isn't true, as did Luisa Omelian and many others last year.
Janey Godley, Beyond The Joke, 18th February 2015Comedians sign letter condemning "banter"
A collective of comedians including Daniel Sloss, Katherine Ryan, Janey Godley and Jenny Eclair has signed a statement condemning misogyny dressed up as banter. This article publishes the letter in full.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th November 2014Line up for Women In Comedy Festival 2014 revealed
Running in Greater Manchester from Saturday 11 until Sunday 26 October the 2014 Women in Comedy Festival features more than 80 shows across an incredible 16 venues. The festival is full to the brim with female comedic talent with over 125 acts confirmed including big names such as Jo Caulfield, Zoe Lyons, Janey Godley, Luisa Omielan, Felicity Ward, Jo Neary, Barbara Nice, Kate Smurthwaite, Tanyalee Davis, Dana Alexander and Jo Enright.
Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 18th September 2014Opinion: Janey Godley on Swearing
Does my swearing sound worse because I am a working class Scottish woman? If I was an Oxbridge graduate swearing onstage would it be seen as 'urban and gritty' like a hipster getting angry at a flat tyre but in my accent does it sound really harsh and filthy and all you hear is a slovenly washer woman taking us back years with her filthy language?
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th September 2014Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie: act to act
Fringe legend Janey Godley, or "the slightly wicked godmother of Scottish comedy" if you want her own description, is back at the Festival. And this year's show Oh My Godley! boasts not only outrageous stories a plenty, but also a Storrie, as in Ashley Storrie, as in Janey's award-winning comedian daughter. The awards being for the comedy, not the daughterhood I think.
Janey Godley, ThreeWeeks, 13th August 2014Janey Godley interview
Janey Godley is busy. She's a full time comedian and playwright, blogger, actor, podcaster, mother and bestselling author, but she's probably best known outside her native Scotland as a regular on BBC Radio 4's Just A Minute.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 20th April 2014The Janey Godley three minute interview
Janey Godley is busy. She's a full time comedian and playwright, blogger, actor, podcaster, mother and bestselling author, but she's probably best known outside her native Scotland as a regular on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. Billy Connolly once famously said she's, "a fucking great comedian". Martin Walker agrees.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 14th April 2014