ComedyCaster » janie http://www.comedycaster.com The Online Directory of Professional Comedians & Comedy Performers Sat, 25 May 2013 07:56:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Janey Godley http://www.comedycaster.com/profile/janey-godley/ http://www.comedycaster.com/profile/janey-godley/#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:05:55 +0000 janeygodley http://www.comedycaster.com/?post_type=ad_listing&p=3708 “The Glasgow Comedy Queen” (The List)
“Compelling… ballsy… a breath of fresh air” (The Guardian)
“The most outspoken female stand-up in Britain” (Daily Telegraph)
“The greatest British improviser of her generation” (What’s On Stage)
“Some of the sharpest-elbowed comedy in the world” (New York Times)
“Scotland’s funniest woman… the Godmother of Scottish Comedy” (The Scotsman)

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’ and was voted No 3 by readers in London listing magazine Time Out’s list of Top Ten Comedians.

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