Janice Connolly
- English
- Actor, stand-up comedian and writer
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Fringe Festival - 2018 show dates
The annual festival is back with comedy, music and cabaret acts for all.
Kathy Giddins, The Sun, 13th August 2018Great Yorkshire Fringe review: Barbara Nice, Raffle
If you saw about 100 folk wearing hi-vis jackets in Parliament Street on Saturday night playing What's The Time Mr Wolf with a middle aged woman carrying a handbag in the shape of an accordion - that was us!
Maxine Gordon, The York Press, 22nd July 2018Eaten by Lions review
A great cast including Johnny Vegas and Asim Chaudhry bring a good dose of fun to the new British comedy Eaten By Lions, which premieres at the Edinburgh International Film Festival today. But director Jason Wingard can be clunky in his handling emotional moments - which lean towards over-sentimentalised cliché - and occasionally the comic ones, too.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st June 2018Barbara Nice's Raffle - review
Barbara Nice: a comfort-blanket name for the champion of common people. Rather too conveniently compared to Victoria Wood and Mrs Merton, tonight she invites us to up the stakes and take a flutter on Lady Luck. No neon glitz Vegas hedonistic abandon here, mind. This is an alt.adrenaline, no-nonsense raffle that promises tombola Tom-foolery in spades.
John Kennedy, The Reviews Hub, 24th February 2018Review: Barbara Nice: Christmas Special
Fans of the Barbara Nice character will adore her Christmas Special as it plays to her strengths of interacting with the audience.
Dave Cunningham, The Reviews Hub, 2nd December 2017Barbara Nice review
Audience sitcoms are notoriously hard to get right, but this pacy, funny and feelgood hits all the right notes. TV commissioners ought to be taking notice.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 14th March 2017Why Barbara Nice is throwing herself into her new show
Barbara Nice, created by Janice Connolly, performs her trademark stage dive, even on Radio 2.
Roz Laws, The Birmingham Mail, 11th March 2017Janice Connolly: comedy's lost its underground spirit
Live comedy has lost much of its anarchic, punk spirit and become more 'corporate'. That's the view of the performer behind the Stockport housewife character Barbara Nice, Janice Connolly, speaking at an 'in conversation' event at the Leicester Comedy Festival last night.
Chortle, 23rd February 2017Radio 2 announces new season of comedy pilots
Radio 2's Comedy Showcase strand is to return, with comedies starring the likes of Harry & Paul, Romesh Ranganathan, Tim Vine and Cardinal Burns.
British Comedy Guide, 14th February 2017How class plays its part in offensive comedy
...and is the industry just too middle-class?
Chortle, 13th October 2016