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 Janey Godley – Tell It Like It Is!
Thursday 6 March
8pm
The Garage
£9.50/ £7.50 conc
Tickets: 0870 013 5464
The Scotswoman Of The Year nominee and much lauded, much hyphenated
stand-up-author-playwright-columnist-actress Janey Godley isn’t
choosing 2008 as the year she pauses for breath.
In the sliver of spare time she has away from the madness, Janey will
be gracing the 2008 Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival with a
special one-off full length show.
On the page, Janey’s astonishing autobiography Handstands In The
Dark was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and has recently
enjoyed success in North America. A million miles away from the usual
misery memoirs flooding the shelves of Waterstones, Janey showed an
awe-inspiring ability to spin vivacious humour without an ounce of
mawkishness from her extraordinary background of drugs, abuse, murder
and gangsters in Glasgow’s East End. Handstands rocketed Janey
Godley to the premier league of new Scottish writers and she settled
easily into her role as a weekly columnist for The Scotsman.
On air and on screen Janey is a regular, hugely popular guest on the
likes of BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends and Just a Minute and
starred in Channel 4’s reality show Kings of Comedy
But it’s onstage that she really shines. One of the busiest women on
the Edinburgh Fringe, since 2003 Janey has performed solo stand-up and
improv, hosted her own chat show (where she bagged the only Edinburgh
appearance of John ‘Smeato’ Smeaton), acted in her own play
exploring Glasgow’s heroin plague The Point Of Yes and created a
two-woman sketch show with her own daughter Ashley Storrie.
Outspoken, breath-takingly ballsy and completely lacking a
self-censorship button, Janey Godley is as far removed from the
average stand-up as it’s possible to be.
www.janeygodley.co.uk
Press Quotes
‘The Godmother of Scottish comedy... truly inspired’ Scotsman
‘Sensation... Exceptionally funny’ Herald
‘Scotland's funniest woman’ List
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