Janey Godley: If you really must swear, do it properly – there's a dear
Published Date:
18 August 2008
LAST week, I won the Nivea Funny Women Fringe Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Being a female stand up can make you feel rather isolated in what is effectively a male dominated industry, so anyone who supports women comics is cool with me.
There are so many barriers for women in comedy; the lifestyle alone is daunting. You leave your family behind every weekend and go off to stay in a collection of anonymous hotels just to make people laugh and it can be awfully lonely at times.
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The full article contains 767 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
18 August 2008 10:45 AM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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