4th August 2007
JANEY GODLEY- DOMESTIC GODLEY
by William Cook
Janey Godley has the perfect qualifications for a career as a talk show host. Before she became a stand-up comic, she was a Glaswegian pub landlady with gangsters for in-laws, and this week you can watch her talking to some of her fellow Edinburgh Festival stars. On Saturday, she's chewing the fat with one of Britain's greatest game show hosts, Les Dennis; on Monday, it's the turn of self-appointed German comedy ambassador Henning Wehn; and on Friday; she meets Paul Provenza, director of the infamous documentary The Aristocrats, plus Scotland's answer to Graham Norton, Craig Hill. It was Norton's live chat show in Edinburgh 10 years ago which elevated him from cult success to household name and this show could well do the same thing for Godley. After all, there can't be many talk show hosts who could write so movingly about their murdered mother, their alcoholic father, their sexually abusive uncle and their 22 friends who died from heroin addiction and still manage to raise a few laughs. |