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Comedy of the Week

Janey Godley: The C Bomb

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Janey Godley doesn’t know how long she’s got left, so she’s telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best. In this episode, we hear how Janey became an unlikely teen bride for a shy autistic 16 year-old who dressed like insurance salesman, and how a mixed marriage that seemed doomed before it even began, has lasted for over 43 years. Oh, and there’s that time they met Prince. With added insight from Janey’s daughter Ashley Storrie, who helps her mum remember the stories of their life together with humour and love. Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled’ and the very dark place that took her to. Then, just months later, the hand grenade of a cancer diagnosis forced her to start fighting for her life. Now, after finally admitting that after everything she’s been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine”, and with a terminal diagnosis, she’s submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling. And as a result of this insight, she’s more hilarious and compelling onstage than ever. Janey’s experienced a life of extremes but has come out the other side with rare insight, still able to make light of all its trials and tribulations in her signature dark and uncompromising style. Recorded live in front of an audience in her hometown, Glasgow. A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.5

I'm Ginny Godley and you're listening to The Sea Bomb.

0:10.6

It's not about that sign I once held up and it's not about getting cancelled.

0:15.2

It's not even the big sea, the terminal cancer I'm living with.

0:19.5

The sea bomb for me was counselling with everything that's happened in my life.

0:24.4

Tons of it.

0:25.4

I might not be fine.

0:26.9

Who knew?

0:27.9

You're going to hear me talking to my daughter Ashley Storie at home and to a live audience

0:33.6

at Webster's Theatre in Glasgow.

0:38.2

I helped you write some things down that you were going to say in your comedy show.

0:42.1

Yeah.

0:42.6

And I went away and left you for a couple of times.

0:45.3

I worked really hard on it.

0:46.7

You've added two things to the list.

0:48.6

That was as hard as I could be.

0:50.0

So you wrote two things down of the 40 things that I wrote down of your material.

0:54.6

Yeah, because you can remember my material better than me.

0:57.0

That's because you never paid for a babysitter or had to sit in comedy clubs.

1:00.1

You threw up.

1:01.1

So you grew up.

1:02.2

Yeah, you met Dad.

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