<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> JANEY GODLEY - Scottish actress, comedienne, author, playwright & journalist

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COMEDY - MUSIC - THEATRE - FACTUAL TV - FRINGE 2008 - BLOGS - BOOK


COMEDY

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Abi Gets Her Revenge...
...for having been told to appear in Aunty Janey's videos.
27th October 2008
(16 secs)
shot by Anne Margaret McPherson


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Sarah Palin's Pregant Daughter
Janey as US Presidential candidate Sarah Palin with Abi as her daughter.
27th October 2008
(1 mins 18 secs)
shot by Anne Margaret McPherson


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Domestic Godley
A 1960s childhood, Jesus & King Billy, old perverts and modern crime, in an extract from Janey's show at the Pleasance Dome, during her run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
25th August 2008
(7 mins 52 secs)
shot by Gangster Videos


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Janey Godley - New Zealand
1960s nostalgia and her mother's improvisational skills in an extract from Janey's show at the San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington, during her run at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival.
24th April 2008
(2 mins 40 secs)
shot by N.A.Razzak/Daniel Judkins


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Janey Godley - Tell It Like it Is!
- Glasgow
Extract from Janey's show at the Garage venue, during the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
6th March 2008
(4 mins 33 secs)


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Janey Godley - Tell It Like it Is!
- Edinburgh
Two excerpts from Janey's series of sell-out shows in The Pleasance Dome at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2007.
Glasgow Airport terrorist attack.
(9 mins 57 secs)
Pot-bellied pigs and crocodiles in Glasgow.
(5 mins 8 secs).
shot by Ashley Storrie


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Abi Confesses
Janey talks to 3 year-old Abi about a series of mysterious pet deaths.
7th May 2007,
(2 mins 4 secs)
shot and edited by Janey


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Janey Godley - Live!
Janey performs at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
8th March 2007
(1 min 6 secs)
shot by BBC TV "Culture Show"


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Good Godley! 2007
Four extracts from Janey's show at East Kilbride Arts Centre, Scotland.
9th February 2007
Murder and Jesus
(7 mins 32 secs)
My Mammy
(5 mins 11 secs)
The Pain of Childbirth
(6 mins 4 secs)
Attention Deficit and Racism
(2 mins 10secs)
edited by Janey


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Not Sion Simon, not David Cameron
Janey's take on the Labour MP's much-criticised satire on Conservative leader David Cameron's touchy-feely online video.
14th October 2006
(2 mins 26 secs)


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Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie's "Square Street"
Janey and daughter Ashley Storrie in two extracts from their heavily-ad-libbed Edinburgh Fringe sketch show
26th August 2006
Sandra & Alison
(4 mins)
The Psychic
(3 mins 3 secs)


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Janey Godley's Blog - Live!
Janey's performance at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe,
26th August 2006
(53 min 22 secs)


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The Aristocrats
Janey's 3-year old great-niece Abi tells 'The Aristrocrats' joke.
11th July 2006
(1 min 22 secs)
video by Janey


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Wellington - New Zealand
Two excerpts from a show at the Indigo Bar in May 2006.
Clip 1
Janey talks about oral sex, hitting a man with cerebral palsy and the raccoon & black man in her head.
(9 mins 59 secs)
Clip 2
Janey talks about Gary Glitter, plumbers in porn films, using an inflated man in Amsterdam, child abuse, murder and being arrested by the police.
(9 mins 56 secs)
video by Ashley Storrie

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Auckland - New Zealand
The edited TV version of Janey's performance at the St James Theatre, Auckland, in the opening Gala of the ODDFELLOW's New Zealand International Comedy Festival
12th May 2006
(3 mins 47secs)

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Make Me a Lady
Things are not quite what they seem.
4th May 2006,
(8 mins 11 secs)
video by Ashley Storrie

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Janey Godley - Unscripted!
Two extracts from at the Glasgow Comedy Festival, Scotland, on 25th March 2006,
Janey on Porn
(5 mins 2 secs)
Janey on Religion
(4 mins 33 secs)
video by Ashley Storrie


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Psychic Reading
Improvisation with daughter Ashley Storrie. An experiment for their planned stage show Square Street.
11th January 2006
(45 secs)


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Janey Godley Is Innocent
Extract from Janey's 2005 Edinburgh Fringe show at Glasgow's Merchant City Festival.
23rd September 2005
(2 mins 33 secs)
video by
Steeleworks Productions


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Janey Godley Is Innocent
Extract from Janey's show at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2005.
(10 mins 1 sec)
video by
Steeleworks Productions


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Good Godley!
Extract from Janey's breakthrough show in the Underbelly venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
(2 mins 37 secs)

MUSIC


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Children in Need 2006
The Proclaimers' song "Sunshine on Leith" performed by Janey and Scots comic Craig Hill on the annual BBC charity appeal show
17th November 2006
(2 mins 19 secs)

THEATRE


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The Point of Yes
Two clips from Janey's performance at Glasgow's Peterson Park Hall
27th October 2005
(5 mins 53 secs)
video shot by
Steeleworks Productions
FACTUAL TV


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Five Thirty Show
Janey discusses 'Chav' and 'Ned' culture on STV magazine show.
16th July 2008
(4 mins 55 secs)


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I'll Crack The Jokes
Janey talks about Jesus.
3rd June 2008
(1 mins 15 secs)


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Sunrise - New Zealand
Janey interviewed on TV3 News' breakfast show about gangland, guns and a Perrier Award.
30th April 2008
(4 mins 47 secs)


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Five Thirty Show
Janey discusses raising alcohol prices in Scotland on STV magazine show.
12th February 2008
(4 mins 07 secs)


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From SR to Lavvie Heid
Janey comments on three of STV's "best ads of the last 50 years" in two clips:
CLIP ONE (1 min 43 secs)
Caledonian Girls / Impulse
CLIP TWO (1 min 55 secs)
VW Golf car
31st December 2007


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John Smeaton on "Janey Godley's Chat Show"
Extract from John's exclusive hour-long chat with Janey at the the Edinburgh Fringe about his part in defeating the Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport
23rd August 2007
(4 mins 47 secs)


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Scotswoman of the Year
The video used to introduce Janey at the 44th annual Scotswoman of the Year Awards
23rd October 2006
(2 mins 48 secs)


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Good Morning New Zealand
Janey and daughter Ashley interviewed on TV1's morning show
17th February 2006
(6 mins 29 secs)


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Kobra
Swedish State Television's profile of Janey on their flagship Arts series
26th October 2005
(6 mins 47 secs)


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Craig Hill's Out Tonight
Janey interviewed (seven minutes) on the hit BBC1 Scotland entertainment series
21st October 2005
(7 mins 13 secs)


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Scunnered
Clips from Janey's contributions to the BBC1 documenentary on Scottish dialect
22nd August 2005.
(1 min 23 secs)


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100 Greatest Christmas Moments
Janey talks to camera about The Snowman.
December 2004
(0 mins 29 secs)


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Janey in July 2004
Janey talks to camera for six minutes about her life. This is Janey as herself, not a performance.
(6 mins 37 secs)
video by
Gangster Videos


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Artery
Janey discusses Rembrandt's women in an edition of STV/Grampian TV's long-running arts series.
August 2001
(1 mins 26 secs)


FRINGE 2008

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Domestic Godley
An extract from Janey's show at the Pleasance Dome about her 1960s childhood, Jesus & King Billy, old perverts and modern crime.
25th August 2008
(7 mins 52 secs)


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The Edinburgh Fringe 2008
Janey's video includes chats with Jay Lempueror, Wil Hodgson, Rick Shapiro, Charlie Wood of the Underbelly, Bethany Black, Kev F Sutherland, Janey's daughter Ashley and footage of Janey's win at the Nivea Funny Women Awards.
August 2008,
(9 mins 27 secs)


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UNCUT Rick Shapiro
Janey chats to US comedian Rick Shapiro in an alleyway during the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2008.
(2 mins 51 secs)


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Fresh Air Radio
Janey talks about the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe, women in comedy etc
1st August 2008,
(6 mins 47 secs)


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Funny Women Award 2008, part 1 of 2
Janey wins the annual award for funniest female performer at the Edinburgh Fringe.
11th August 2008,
(9 mins 42 secs)
shot by Ashley Storrie


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Funny Women Award 2008, part 2 of 2
Janey wins the annual award for funniest female performer at the Edinburgh Fringe.
11th August 2008,
(8 mins 12 secs)
shot by Ashley Storrie


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Domestic Godley Promo 1
Janey's promo for her show at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh, 7.00pm, 30th July - 25th August
(58 secs)


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Domestic Godley Promo 2
Janey and daughter Ashley promo the show.
(1 min 50 secs)

VIDEO BLOGS
To see the blogs, click the date.

Video Blogs 2006
Janey and her daughter Ashley


21st March
Sport, Ashley & Janey's brother
(4 mins 57 secs)
29th March
Stage shows & baby Abi
(3 mins 52 secs)
5th April
Smoking, bird flu & old age
(8 mins 22 secs)
13th April
The slap on the ass
(6 mins 44 secs)
28th April
at Glasgow Green
(6 mins 6 secs)
13th May

from the London BAFTAs to the New Zealand Comedy Festival
(4 mins 38 secs)

24th May
in Wellington, New Zealand: "Good Godley!" clip and The Birds
(6 mins)
5th June

in Auckland, New Zealand; Awards & party
(7 mins 10 secs)
19th June

"Good Godley!" clip + New Zealand highlights
(5 mins 05 secs)
9th July

in Oxford, on sexism, the countryside, Tony Blair and barbeques.
(3 mins 48 secs)
26th August

at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(2 mins 1sec)
22nd September

on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow
(3 mins 3 secs)
7th November

at Oxford University
(3 mins 57 secs)


AUTOBIOGRAPHY


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You can see some of the places mentioned in Janey's autobiography Handstands in the Dark by clicking on the book cover. Narrated by Janey and filmed by her daughter Ashley.
(1 min 10 secs)

No 3 hardback bestseller, issued June 2005.

Top ten paperback version issued August 2006.

US distribution from January 2007.