JANEY GODLEY - Scottish actress, comedienne, author, playwright & journalist

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LATEST

Tickets are now on sale for Janey's performances of Godley's World at The Tron, Glasgow, on 25th March and at the Soho Theatre, London, in April/May.

On 26th March, Janey will be presenting the Best New Comedian award at the Scottish Variety Awards 2010.

Janey will be performing in Toronto in April... Roswell, Georgia and Barcelona in May... and will be in Los Angeles June/July. See GIGS

JANEY ON SCREEN

"Godley's World" clip
Pleasance Queen Dome, Edinburgh
(5 min 56 secs)

Interview on "The Hour" TV show
Janey's talks about "Godley's World"
how she got into comedy and
her plans for George Clooney.
(6 min 57 secs)

Click to see
River City
Excerpts from Janey's 2009 appearance in
the long-running Scottish drama series.
(9 min 14 secs)

ABOUT JANEY
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.

"HANDSTANDS IN THE DARK"

Buy Janey's autobiography in UK shops or from online stores or direct from Janey via the Merchandise button in the left hand column. More about the book via the Autobiography button. Handstands in the Dark was a No 3 hardback bestseller and a UK Top Ten paperback bestseller.

JANEY'S BLOG

Available to read via the widget top right, it is also posted on 172 other websites worldwide and usually receives a total of over 500,000 hits per week. In August 2009, the European media intelligence company Cision named the version of her blog posted on Blogger's Blogspot as the 4th "most read, most discussed and most influential" comedy blog in the UK.

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