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Janey Godley: a remarkable comic who built a career on her own terms

by Brian Logan

The Glaswegian comedian who grew up in poverty and married a gangster put her life experience at the heart of her work Nobody did comedy quite like Janey Godley. This wasn't just a matter of her background, which in turn became the currency of her live act " her childhood poverty ("a world of near Dickensian squalor", as one Scottish newspaper described it), her marriage into a notorious Glasgow gangster family. Her …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:24am on November 2, 2024