2008 WINNER
FUNNY WOMEN FRINGE AWARD
as "the funniest woman on the Fringe" and "one of the most prolific and extraordinary stand-up comedians working in the UK."
2008 WINNER
FRINGE REPORT AWARD
as "Best Performer"

To hear Janeys acceptance speech when winning Best Performer at the 2008 Fringe Report Awards, CLICK HERE
(1 min 18 secs)

"JANEY GODLEY REMAINS UTTERLY UNIQUE ON THE FRINGE, with a seemingly endless fund of rich anecdotes about her life and a common touch that destabilises the performer-audience divide to endearing, entertaining effect." (The Scotsman, 11th August)

"RAZOR SHARP... Wonderfully foul-mouthed family entertainment" (Herald, 19th August)

"Terrifing tenderness which keeps the audience coming back year after year... her ability to deliver laughs again and again... fascinating, harrowing, tender and hilarious..." (one4review, 4th August)

TOP TEN COMEDY PICK
Sunday Mail, 3rd August

WHAT THE SHOW IS ABOUT

Janey has outlived her mother and has no guidelines for her future. Janey's mother Annie was murdered when she was 47 and Janey was 21. This year, Janey has reached 47 and her daughter Ashley is 21.

Janey is not a natural home-maker nor a perfect mother or wife. She is no Domestic Goddess. She has improvised her way through domesticity just like her mother before her and just like her own stage shows and - guess what? - it has worked. Almost!

Just a few problems along the way: the marriage, the guns, the state of her daughter Ashley’s room and Janey’s inability to cook soup. She has sharp, jaw-dropping observations on homemaking and motherhood this year. But what will happen next?

Why does she have to clean table-tops compulsively? Who on earth cleans windows with vinegar and newspapers and why should they need to?

Cupcakes do not a marriage make. But what’s with the talking raccoons? Extraordinary home truths about family, friends and her lack of housewifery skills from a far-from ordinary woman next door.