Scottish actress, comedienne, author, playwright & journalist

RADIO - Stuck in the Middle, the Sony Award-winning documentary radio series to which Janey contributed, is repeated at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 7 Monday-Friday 6th-10th July... Janey was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends on Saturday 27th June. In the UK, it can be heard on BBC iPlayer until 4th July.

COMEDY

Janey will perform her new show Godley's World in the Pleasance Dome throughout the Edinburgh Fringe, 5th-31st August. TICKETS ON SALE HERE.

Edinburgh, August 2009

The Edinburgh Fringe 2009 Janey's teaser for her new show Godley's World. (1 min 53 secs)

In May, Janey performed her full Domestic Godley stage show at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. You can see her on the Cadbury Crunchie Comedy Gala HERE. You can read an online interview HERE.

"Affable, natural, warm... fascinating... Godley is unique... the hour races by"
(TV New Zealand, 12th May 2009)

"Her ability to draw a crowd in and keep them entertained is remarkable"
(TheatreReview, New Zealand, 10th May 2009)

"Funny - and real... an instant winner year after year"
(Dominion Post, New Zealand, 7th May 2009)

"Warm, incredibly funny and real"
(TheatreReview, New Zealand, 6th May 2009)

"A wee wonder of infectious stage presence"
(New Zealand Herald, 4th May 2009)

TELEVISION - Janey performed on New Zealand TV2's Cadbury Crunchie Comedy Gala on May 6th and was interviewed live on the Sunrise show on New Zealand's TV3 on April 30th.

Click to see Janey in "River City"

ART - One of Janey's paintings was sold by The Samaritans at a charity auction in Edinburgh on 22nd June.

Multi-award-winning Scots 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.

Also a regular 5-star performer at the Edinburgh Fringe, Janey won the 2008 Fringe Report Award as 'Best Performer' and two 2008 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 No 3 in London listing magazine Time Out's list of Top Ten comedians and was nominated as 'Best International Guest' in the annual New Zealand Comedy Guild Awards.

Her autobiography Handstands in the Dark was a No 3 hardback bestseller and a UK Top Ten paperback bestseller. In 2006, Janey was nominated as and was close runner-up for the annual Scotswoman of the Year title as 'the most inspirational woman in Scotland'.

If you want quick quotes about Janey, you can get some on her new website, which is currently under construction.
CLICK HERE.