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Janey. Janey Godley. Credit: Hopscotch Films
Janey Godley

Janey Godley

  • Scottish
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

Press clippings Page 20

Janey Godley on the Free Fringe

I have no issue with the big paid venues, I just see issues that the Free Festival can resolve.

Janey Godley, Medium.com, 28th July 2016

Who's representing your city at the Edinburgh Fringe? (Link expired)

Edinburgh is world famous for its annual Festival Fringe (5-29 Aug) which showcases performing arts from across the world, but focusses mainly on comedy.

Alex Watson, WOW247, 26th July 2016

Fringe at the Laughing Horse

They may no longer have the Counting House, but the Laughing Horse's Free Festival still straddles the city.

Robert Peacock, TV Bomb, 26th July 2016

Lee Nelson comic pranks Trump with swastika golf balls

Simon Brodkin - aka Lee Nelson - has pulled his latest high-profile prank, interrupting a Donald Trump press conference with swastika-emblazoned golf balls.

British Comedy Guide, 24th June 2016

Richard Herring's ten best interviews

Lorcan Mullan celebrates 100 RHLSTP episodes.

Lorcan Mullan, Chortle, 23rd February 2016

Janey Godley, Kate Smurthwaite address Cambridge Union

Comedians including Janey Godley and Kate Smurthwaite are to debate romance in the Cambridge Union.

Chortle, 11th January 2016

New documentary film about prejudice in comedy

Stand-up Catie Wilkins is directing her first film, about sexism, racism and class prejudice in comedy. Finding The Funny features comics Tiff Stevenson, Richard Herring, Janey Godley, Brendon Burns, Ava Vidal, Nish Kumar, Grainne Maguire, Andrew Watts, Suzi Ruffell and former stand-up Christina Martin.

Jay Richardson, Chortle, 10th December 2015

Janey Godley on social media and Turkish men

Janey published her jaw-dropping best-selling autobiography Handstands in The Dark in 2005 and also started blogging regularly in early 2005. So, during the podcast, we talked about her widespread social media presence.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd October 2015

Paul Boyd: from Molly Wobbly to the Tower of London

My chum comedienne Janey Godley's weekly podcast has a new signature tune from today, written by the wildly prolific Paul Boyd. "It's the same tune," he told me yesterday at the Tower of London, "I just brushed it up a bit, because I thought: They've had it for five years now. I didn't want to have an outcry from all her fans if I changed it too much."

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 30th September 2015

Janey Godley interview

Scotland's own Janey Godley talks to Martin Walker about her new Edinburgh show, Honest to Godley! In an extended interview they also chat about the Free Fringe, her award winning Podcast, and ask where the Scottish working class women voices have gone.

Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 8th July 2015

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