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"The most outspoken female stand-up in Britain" (Daily Telegraph)
"Scotland's funniest woman... the Godmother of Scottish Comedy" (The Scotsman)
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Janey will be performing two shows daily at the Edinburgh Fringe, 4th-30th August...
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ABOUT JANEY Multi-award-winning Scottish comedienne, playwright, award-winning blogger, best-selling author and former Scotsman newspaper columnist Janey Godley has performed her comedy shows and one-woman play around the world, including off-Broadway in New York. She is a regular on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. In 2006, Janey was nominated and was close runner-up for the annual Scotswoman of the Year title as 'the most inspirational woman in Scotland'; at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, she won the Spirit of The Festival Award. A regular 5-star performer at the Edinburgh Fringe, in 2008 she won the Fringe Report Award as 'Best Performer' and two Nivea Funny Women Fringe Awards - as 'Best Stand-Up' and, overall, for 'Best Show' as "one of the most prolific and extraordinary stand-up comedians working in the UK". In 2008, she also won Edinburgh's WAG of the Year Award as 'Best After Dinner Speaker', was nominated as 'Best International Guest' in the 2008 New Zealand Comedy Guild Awards and was voted No 3 by readers in London listing magazine Time Out's list of Top Ten Comedians. In 2009, her new Edinburgh Fringe show Godley's World received three 5-star reviews... and the New Zealand Comedy Guild nominated Janey as 'Best International Guest'; they had also nominated her on each of her previous visits in 2002, 2006 and 2008. ONLINE COLUMNS Janey writes a monthly column for The 3rdi, the online magazine for women in business... and a weekly Sunday column for HubPages. You can access it via the widget on the right. JANEY'S BLOG Available to read via the widget in the right hand column, it is also posted on 172 other websites worldwide and usually receives a total of over 500,000 hits per week. In August 2009, the European media intelligence company Cision named the version of her blog posted on Blogger's Blogspot as the 4th "most read, most discussed and most influential" comedy blog in the UK. "HANDSTANDS IN THE DARK" Buy Janey's autobiography in UK shops or from online stores or direct from Janey via the Merchandise button in the left hand column. More about the book via the Autobiography button. Handstands in the Dark was a No 3 hardback bestseller and a UK Top Ten paperback bestseller. bookings e-mail: Press & media requests to: publicity@janeygodley.com |
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