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SCOTSIN MEMBERS - Janey Godley - Scottish Comedienne |
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Written by * Eddie Tait
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
JANEY GODLEY is an award-winning Scottish comedienne and actress, playwright, Scotsman columnist and bestselling author.
 JANEY GODLEY is an award-winning Scottish comedienne and actress, playwright, Scotsman columnist and bestselling author.
In 2006, she was a Scotswoman of the Year finalist and narrow runner-up as Scotswoman of the Year.
At the 2008 Fringe Report Awards, she was named Best Performer on the
London theatre fringe and, in Edinburgh, she won the WAG of the Year
title as best after-dinner speaker.
Her autobiography "Handstands in the Dark" was a UK Top Ten bestseller
in hardback (2005) and paperback (2006) - "Utterly compelling... a
word-of-mouth phenomenon... un-putdownable... her writing is
sensationally good" (Daily Telegraph)
She has been called "Scotland's funniest woman... the Godmother of
Scottish comedy" (The Scotsman)... "The most outspoken female stand-up
in Britain" (Daily Telegraph) performing "some of the sharpest-elbowed
comedy in the world" (New York Times) and "the best stuff is unlike
anything I've heard from a stand-up comic before" (New Zealand Theatre
Review)
She appears regularly on stage in London, at the Edinburgh Fringe and on Radio 4's "Just a Minute".
Her blog, written since 2004 and posted on 126 sites worldwide, has
regularly had over 500,000 hits per week. Her full-page column is
published in The Scotsman every Monday. The blogs, columns, audio &
video clips and more details about Janey are available on her
extensive website www.janeygodley.co.uk
Further information:
Image: Courtesy of Janey Godley.
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