Jenny Eclair
- 64 years old
- English
- Actor and stand-up comedian
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There were fewer mixed feelings about Our Woman ... in which Jenny Eclair plays an ex-Fleet Street hack working in a tiny village on a community website. It's supposed to be a sitcom, but there was a lot of flailing, with neither enough situation or comedy to warrant the commission. Still, I listened all the way through.
Nosheen Iqbal, The Guardian, 15th March 2013Review: Bridget Christie; Our Woman in Norton Tripton
Radio 4's dearth of good comedy is no joke - as these latest offerings from Bridget Christie and Jenny Eclair show.
Nosheen Iqbal, The Guardian, 15th March 2013Anyone familiar with the work of Jenny Eclair will recognise her hand in this madcap, slightly ramshackle new comedy. Eclair co-wrote the story with Julie Balloo about washed-up, middle-aged, divorced Fleet Street journalist Ros, who has ended up living in her childhood village of Norton Tripton.
The only job she can get is working for her monstrous ex's sister, who runs the local tourist website - but is patently not happy doing stories about flower displays. Eclair has great fun portraying Ros's angry desperation at how her life has detoured into a cul-de-sac as her ex-husband's career goes stratospheric, while Mark Heap brings his trademark oddball schtick to the role of her sidekick.
It's a riotous farce that reminded me of the stories of Tom Sharpe in its eccentric characters and extreme situations.
David Crawford, Radio Times, 12th March 2013Whitby Festival: Jenny Eclair's date at festival
Jenny Eclair is the latest comedian to be snapped up to perform at Whitby's first comedy festival.
Whitby Gazette, 8th March 2013Jenny Eclair, touring
Deliciously potty-mouthed comic on fine form.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 31st October 2012A look back on the alternative comedy movement
Rik Mayall, Jenny Eclair and Ben Elton are among the 1980s alt.comics who shaped comedy today.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 16th October 2012Jenny Éclair's comedy heroes
The comic prefers 'comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena'.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 9th October 2012Jenny Eclair interview
nny Eclair, 52, tells Metro about how her appearance on I'm A Celebrity helped her career, the possible reason she got fired from Loose Women and her new comedy tour Eclairious.
Andrew Williams, Metro, 3rd September 2012Video: Jenny Eclair 'serious' about writing
Jenny Eclair has insisted she is serious about writing, ahead of the release of her third novel.
BBC Breakfast, 4th July 2012Jenny Eclair leaves Loose Women panel amid tensions
Jenny Eclair is leaving Loose Women after failing to bond with the other panellists.
The Mirror, 14th June 2012