331 - Janey Godley

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Superb comedian, thrilling storyteller and born survivor Janey Godley not only answers back to her online death-threats, but publishes her whereabouts with an open invitation to "come and have a go". We talk about how she thrived despite abuse, poverty and alcoholism in her upbringing; detail her absolute conviction in the power of honesty; and learn how an early experience at the Edinburgh Fringe led her to reject the comedy industry and focus instead on her audience.

CW: We talk about abuse Janey suffered as a child, at the very start of this show, and throughout.

25 mins of extras available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club include Janey on how her refusal to play along led to her being banned from a chain of comedy clubs; how she approaches publicising criminal connections whilst keeping her own nose clean; the ramifications of her husband’s autism, and the glee she feels at her daughter Ashley Storrie’s success in the comedy world. Join now and support the show at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders

Thanks to the Stand Newcastle

www.janeygodley.com | @janeygodley

Janey Godley’s Soup Pot Tour is on right now - tickets available through her website

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0:00.0	Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?
0:04.6	Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,
0:09.7	including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the S the uh, the Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm
0:38.3	talking to Janie Godley I recorded this conversation in the Newcastle Stand Green Room.
0:43.6	Thank you very much to the stand for having us all that weekend and for letting me record in your
0:47.6	wonderful, wonderful comic strip covered room.
0:51.6	Janie is a revelation to me.
0:54.0	People have been telling me, perhaps you were among them,
0:56.0	that I should get her on the podcast for years and years,
0:59.0	and I've just never had the pleasure of seeing one of her shows.
1:02.0	So it was an absolute revelation to see her batter, a club audience in a sold-out Newcastle stand.
1:10.0	And you can see, I mean I can imagine when we talk in this episode about the incredible
1:14.6	storytelling that she's capable of, sort of in the vein of Billy Connolly, if that's not too
1:19.0	lazier comparison, but all of it based on some of the most extraordinary life experiences.
1:25.0	Now, while we're on the subject, a content warning, we will be talking from the very start of this episode about some of the abuse that Janie suffered as a child, not to mention some tricky
1:36.8	aspects of her life.
1:38.6	So I think as content warnings go, you should probably just go into this one generally warned.
1:44.7	Janie is on tour at the moment and if you are anywhere in Britain she's touring outside of Scotland
1:49.8	and down well into England so have a look at Janie godly.com to find out her tour details
1:56.2	if you as I'm sure you will get a lot out of this.
2:00.3	This is a a good. I really enjoyed it. It's a proper comedy savvy crowd and it's nice, you know, they're all in the good thing about the stand is they know where to put the audience and they know where to put the stage. Because so many clubs, you know,
2:23.7	they don't think through where the audience should be sat
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