Janey Godley

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.

Quotes:

“Honest and hilarious – the female Billy Connolly” – Independent

“Never one to shun controversy; little is taboo… a bit more cutting edge than most comics on the Fringe” – The Scotsman

“Critics’ Choice” – Sunday Herald

“At times you feel like you’re being harangued by a mad woman” – Mail on Sunday

PRICE BAND: Bronze £500 to £2,500

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