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Janey Godley
Janey Godley at the BAFTA film awards, London, February 2008
Janey Godley at the BAFTA film awards, London, February 2008
Birth name Janey Currie
Born 20 January 1961 (1961-01-20) (age 47)
Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality Flag of the United Kingdom Britiish
Notable works and roles Autobiography Handstands in the Dark (2005). Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Shettleston ( Baile Sheadna in Gaelic is a Suburb in the east end of Glasgow in Scotland. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Stage show Good Godley! (2004).
Website www.janeygodley.co.uk

Janey Godley (b. 1961) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, writer and raconteur whose non-humorous autobiography Handstands in the Dark was a UK bestseller. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience with the absence of the theatrical " Fourth wall " A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Storytelling is the ancient art of conveying events in Words Images and Sounds often by Improvisation or embellishment An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A bestseller is a Book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade [1][2] She was a 2006 Scotswoman of The Year finalist[3] and is currently a weekly columnist for the Monday edition of The Scotsman newspaper. A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series The Scotsman is a Scottish national Newspaper, published in Edinburgh. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. [4]

Contents

Early life and career

Brought up in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland, at the age of 18 she married into a Glasgow gangster family. Shettleston ( Baile Sheadna in Gaelic is a Suburb in the east end of Glasgow in Scotland. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom For other uses see Gangsta. A gangster is a criminal who is or at some point almost invariably becomes a member of a persistent violent [5] Her 2005 autobiography Handstands in the Dark describes working-class Glasgow in the years 1961-1994. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types

For 14 years, she ran a public house the Weavers Inn (formerly the Nationalist Bar[6], later the Calton Bar[7]) in the tough Calton area of Glasgow where she staged the first performances by comedian and magician Jerry Sadowitz. Calton is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The name Calton is derived from the Gaelic "coillduin" which means "wood on the hill" Jerry Sadowitz (sometimes billed as Gerry Sadowitz) (born 4 November 1961 is a Scottish card magician and controversial stand-up comic [8][9]

Later, she became a full-time stand-up herself, running comedy clubs including "Jesters" in Glasgow, and regularly compered at clubs in Glasgow, Manchester, and Liverpool. A comedy club is a venue typically a Nightclub, where people watch or listen to performances including Stand-up comedians improvisational Comedians, A club is an association of people united by a common interest or goal Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary She played regular dates in the Netherlands and played in New York City. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The City of New York [10][11]

She was, for a time, a BBC Radio Five Live entertainment correspondent, reporting for former British MP, Edwina Currie's Currie Club show from London, New York, and New Zealand. See also Entertainment (disambiguation and The Entertainer (disambiguation Entertainment is an activity designed to give people The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Edwina Currie Jones née Cohen (born 13 October 1946) is a former British Member of Parliament. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island

2002-2004 - First recognition

She first gained wider attention on her 2002 tour of New Zealand, where she won Best Show Concept at Television New Zealand’s TV2 International LAUGH! Festival. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Television New Zealand (TVNZ is a state-owned television broadcasting corporation in New Zealand. International or internationally most often describes interaction between Nations or encompassing two or more nations constituting a group or association having A festival is an event usually and ordinarily staged by a local community which centers on some unique aspect of that community [12] At the same year’s New Zealand Comedy Guild Awards, she was nominated as Best International Guest and as Best Visiting Comedian. Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize Excellence in a certain field a certificate of excellence International or internationally most often describes interaction between Nations or encompassing two or more nations constituting a group or association having [13]

In August 2003, Godley's non-humorous one-woman play The Point of Yes about Glasgow's heroin problem in the 1980s was premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and, according to the BBC, her Fringe comedy show Caught in the Act of Being Myself was "hotly tipped" as a Perrier Comedy Award nominee. A play, or stageplay, is a form of Literature written by a Playwright, almost always consisting of Dialogue between Fictional characters Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative The Edinburgh Fringe (officially the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, commonly just The Fringe) is the world’s largest Arts festival. The ifcomedy awards, formerly the Perrier comedy awards, are a group of prizes awarded annually to comedy shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [14]

In April 2004, she started writing her daily on-line blog on the Chortle comedy website; it continues today on her own website. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of In May 2004, Stuck in The Middle a BBC Radio 4 documentary series on relationships to which she contributed won a gold at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. An interpersonal relationship is a relatively long-term association between two or more people Gold (ˈɡoʊld is a Chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and Atomic number 79 The Sony Radio Academy Awards (the Sonys) started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry [15] In June, she performed at the Glastonbury Festival. For the classical music and theatre festivals co-founded by Rutland Boughton between 1914 and 1926 see Glastonbury Festival (1914-1925 The

Throughout August, she performed her new 60-minute stand-up comedy show Good Godley! at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning 40 stars in reviews[16] and was again tipped for Perrier nomination. See also Critic. A review is an evaluation of a publication such as a movie, Video game, Musical composition [17]

In October, she appeared for a fortnight on the daily Channel 4/E4 (channel) reality show Kings of Comedy. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began E4 is a digital television channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, launched as a pay-TV companion to Channel 4 on 18 January [18] In December, she performed Good Godley! at the Soho Theatre in the West End of London and contributed to Channel 4's four-hour The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments. This article is about an area of Manhattan, New York City. For the area in London UK see Soho. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions businesses headquarters and the commercial

2005 - Autobiography published

2005 hardback autobiography
2005 hardback autobiography

In June 2005, she again performed at Glastonbury[19] and her non-humorous autobiography Handstands in the Dark was published in the UK and Ireland by Ebury Press, a division of Random House. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher [20] It told the story of her sexual abuse as a child between the ages of 5 and 13, the murder of her mother, Glasgow's heroin 'plague' of the 1980s and her troubled marriage amid a world of gangsters. Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one person upon another Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with Malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries NOTICE TO WOULD-BE ROMEOS ************** Gangsters redirects here For the computer game see Gangsters (video game.

That same month, a revised version of The Point of Yes was staged at the Soho Theatre. [21] In August, she contributed to We're All Grown Ups Here, another radio documentary by Stuck in The Middle's Sony Award-winning producer Sara Conkey. A radio documentary or feature is a Radio documentary programme devoted to covering a particular topic in some depth usually with a mixture of commentary and sound is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with Her new stand-up show Janey Godley is Innocent was staged throughout August's Edinburgh Fringe. The Edinburgh Fringe (officially the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, commonly just The Fringe) is the world’s largest Arts festival.

Other appearances included regular spots on BBC Radio 4 chat show Loose Ends both as interviewee and interviewer and a major profile/interview on award-winning Swedish TV Arts show Kobra [22] as well as contributions to the BBC TV documentary Scunnered [23] about the Scots dialect. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The arts is a broad subdivision of Culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. Scots ( The Scots leid) refers to Anglic varieties derived from early northern Middle English spoken in parts of Scotland and Northern A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος dialektos) is a variety of a Language that is characteristic of a particular group of

In December, she performed Janey Godley Is Innocent to 100 long-term prisoners (including lifers) inside Glenochil high security prison, Clackmannanshire[24][25]. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of Clackmannanshire ( Siorrachd Chlach Mhannainn in Gaelic; nicknamed "the wee county" and sometimes called Clacks is one of the 32 local government . . and an extended two-hour version of the show at London's Cochrane Theatre. The Cochrane Theatre is a receiving and producing theatre that aims to present all aspects of the performing arts within a proscenium arch Her book Handstands in the Dark was voted a 'Best Read of 2005' by listeners of BBC Radio 4's Open Book series. [26]

2006 - Scotswoman of the Year nominee

In February, she performed at the Hackney Empire, London, in the five-hour Malcolm Hardee Memorial Show. The Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street in the London Borough of Hackney, built in 1901 as a Music hall. [27]

In March, she started a video blog; and she performed Janey Godley - Unscripted! at the Glasgow Comedy Festival. Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images She continued to be a regular on Loose Ends and on chat shows on various BBC channels. A talk show ( American) or chat show ( Global) is a Television or Radio program where one person or group of people come together to

In May, she performed Good Godley! at the ODDFELLOWS New Zealand International Comedy Festival; she won the Spirit of The Festival Award[28] and "Good Godley!" was nominated for Best International Show. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island

2006 paperback autobiography
2006 paperback autobiography

In August, her autobiography was released in a paperback edition becoming a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller[1][2] and she performed in 83 shows in 24 days[29]at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival including, each day, her three separate hour-long shows: her play The Point of Yes, her new stand-up show Janey Godley's Blog - Live! (premiered at London's Soho Theatre in June) and Square Street, a comedy sketch show co-written and co-performed with her daughter Ashley Storrie. [30]

In October, she was nominated as Scotswoman of The Year[31] in the 44th annual contest, reached the final six shortlist[3] and was runner-up. In November, she sang for charity on BBC1 Scotland's annual "Children in Need" appeal night[32]and blogged for Amnesty International[33]. In December, she was nominated by the New Zealand Comedy Guild as Best International Guest of 2006[34].

2007 - Starts Scotsman column

weekly page in The Scotsman
weekly page in The Scotsman

In March, she performed a one-off show Janey Godley - Live! at the Glasgow Comedy Festival[35] and began writing a weekly column for the Monday edition of The Scotsman newspaper. [4] In May she performed her play The Point of Yes in The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street, Manhattan[36] and, in June, she performed at the Glastonbury Festival (her third consecutive appearance - there was no Festival in 2006). Bleecker Street is a famous street in New York City 's Manhattan borough Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York In August, she appeared in two daily shows throughout the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Janey Godley - Tell It Like It Is! at the Pleasance Dome and Janey Godley's Chat Show[37] at The Green Room (a sister venue to the New York theater); both shows received 5-star reviews. [38] During the year, she performed in her show Good Godley! at various venues around Scotland as well as Belfast, Toronto[39] and off-Broadway in New York. [36][40]

2008

In February, Janey received the annual Fringe Report Award as Best Performer on the London Fringe. [41] In March, she won the annual Edinburgh WAG of the Year Award as best after-dinner speaker. [42] In April, Time Out, London, readers voted her No 3 in their list of Top Ten comedians. Time Out is a Publishing company based in London, England. The company's best known product is the Time Out weekly listings Magazine [43]

Social involvement

Godley ran comedy workshops at the 2001 London Comedy Festival. A workshop is a room or Building which provides both the area and Tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair After the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe, as well as continuing her stand-up work, she was commissioned by the Scottish Health Board and several local Scottish councils' social service departments to perform her play The Point of Yes to housing associations in 'problem areas', to drug forums around southern Scotland and to the inmates of Shotts prison in North Lanarkshire. Local government in Scotland is organised through 32 unitary authorities consisting of Councillors elected every four years by registered voters in each of the A drug, broadly speaking is any chemical substance that when absorbed into the body North Lanarkshire ( Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath in Gaelic) is one of 32 Council areas in Scotland. [44]

She was also commissioned by a Scottish Drug Forum to run comedy workshops for 15 -18 year olds and drama workshops for recovering heroin addicts, using their own experiences as inspiration. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative The term " addiction " is used in many contexts to describe an obsession compulsion or excessive Physical dependence or psychological dependence such as [45] In 2004, 2006 and 2007, she ran 'Confidence in Kids' comedy workshops in Glasgow and, for Equity, a comedy industry workshop at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe. Equity (formerly British Actors' Equity Association) is the Actors Trade union in the United Kingdom For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious"

One of her paintings was sold[46] at Arthur Smith's award-winning[47] Arturant Exhibition at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2007,[48] with the money going to two charities: the Justice For Gordon Gentle campaign and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD UK). Arthur Smith (born Brian Smith in 1954 is an English alternative comedian and Writer. Gordon Gentle was a 19 year old soldier from Pollok, Glasgow, who died in Iraq on 28 June, 2004, after 6 months training The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions ( ICAHD) is Nonprofit advocacy organization that uses non-violent direct-action means to oppose and resist Israeli In October 2007, she auctioned off another painting in aid of The Samaritans[49][50] and, later that month, she became the Patron of Glasgow's DRCAF (the Dumbarton Road Corridor Addiction Forum). Dumbarton ( Gaelic Dùn Breatainn d̪̊unˈb̊ɾʲɛhd̪̊ɪɲ is a Burgh in Scotland, lying on the north bank of the River Clyde [51]

In March 2008, she performed for a Terrence Higgins Trust fundraiser in Glasgow. Terrence Higgins Trust is a British charity that campaigns on various issues related to AIDS and [52]

Works

Books

Stage: full-length shows

Newspaper interviews

References

  1. ^ a b Sunday Times Bestseller List, 13 August 2006.
  2. ^ a b Sunday Times Bestseller List, 20 August 2006.
  3. ^ a b Glasgow Evening Times, 13 October 2006
  4. ^ a b The Scotsman.
  5. ^ Scotsman, 15 June, 2005.
  6. ^ Scotsman, 15 July, 2006.
  7. ^ News of the World, 12 March 2006
  8. ^ Daily Record, 13 February 2004
  9. ^ Time Out, 30 June-7 July 2004
  10. ^ Observer, 12 June 2005.
  11. ^ Sunday Post, 26 June 2005
  12. ^ Scotland on Sunday, 22 August 2004
  13. ^ Scotland on Sunday, 22 August 2004
  14. ^ BBC News, 20th August 2003.
  15. ^ Sony Radio Academy Awards 2004 winners.
  16. ^ Reviews cited from August 2004 with date of review following title are 5 stars (Fest magazine, 16th) + 4 stars (Edinburgh Evening News, 12th; Glasgow Herald, 24th; The Scotsman, 12th; Three Weeks, 15th; chortle. co. uk, 8th; one4review. com, 15th) + 3 stars (Guardian, 28th; Metro, 18th; Financial Times) + 2 stars (The List)
  17. ^ BBC website, 20th August 2004.
  18. ^ Chortle, UK comedy industry website, 6 February 2005.
  19. ^ Sunday Post, 26 June 2005
  20. ^ Random House listing.
  21. ^ Observer, 12 June 2005.
  22. ^ Swedish TV "Kobra" programme, 26 October 2005.
  23. ^ BBC TV "Scunnered" programme, 22 August 2006.
  24. ^ Guardian, 17 December, 2005.
  25. ^ Sunday Times magazine, 19th February 2006.
  26. ^ BBC Radio 4 "Open Book" list.
  27. ^ Chortle comedy industry website review, 6 February 2006.
  28. ^ NZ Comedy Festival Award List.
  29. ^ Glasgow Evening Times Diary, 15 September, 2006
  30. ^ Daily Telegraph, 10 September, 2006.
  31. ^ Glasgow Evening Times, 10 October 2006
  32. ^ Glasgow Herald, 7 December 2006
  33. ^ Amnesty website, 25 November 2006.
  34. ^ Glasgow Evening Times, 8 December 2006
  35. ^ Scotsman review, 10 March 2007.
  36. ^ a b The Scotsman, 21st May 2007.
  37. ^ List of Chat Show guests.
  38. ^ Glasgow Herald, 8th August 2007 + one4review. com, 9th August 2007.
  39. ^ The Scotsman, 19th November 2007.
  40. ^ Time Out, New York, 24th May 2007.
  41. ^ Fringe Report awards page.
  42. ^ Sunday Morning with Citizen Tommy, Talk107 Radio, 16 March 2008
  43. ^ Time Out, London, 24th April 2008.
  44. ^ Glasgow Evening Times, 11 August 2006
  45. ^ Glasgow Evening Times, 11 August 2006
  46. ^ The Scotsman, 20 August 2007.
  47. ^ Observer, 26 August 2007.
  48. ^ Edinburgh Fringe press release, 27 August 2007.
  49. ^ The Samaritans website, October 2007.
  50. ^ The Scotsman, 1 October 2007
  51. ^ The Scotsman, 29 October 2007.
  52. ^ preview in The List, 28 February 2008.
  53. ^ Godley website.

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