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Janey Godley: the not dead yet tour

My past year has been like a giant “Wordle” game that has swept the nation, I went from “cancel to cancer” in 6 weeks. No, I didn’t smack a man live at the Oscars, in front of millions of people, but I have apologised profusely for historic offensive tweets from over 11 years ago and ended up as the torn worn out pass the parcel for tribal politics in Scotland. All my own doing, but now it’s time to laugh, live and celebrate after dealing this dreadful disease.

I suffered severe mental illness during the online onslaught and whilst on my last tour in 2021 found a giant tumour in my ovary giblets and had to FIGHT to stay alive. Never one for the conventional path in life, I am still NOT DEAD YET and bringing my tour back on the road. So many stories of heart-warming love and outpouring of support to the occasional daily messages hoping I might die soon because … well I am a woman who answered back.

There will be voiceovers and anecdotes, straight from the woman wouldn’t die or shut up. Come join me!

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‘Janey’: Glasgow Review

By Amber Wilkinson 2024-03-10T20:20:00+00:00

Glasgow’s closing film goes on the road with Scottish comedian Janey Godley

Source: GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL

Dir: John Archer. UK. 2024. 78mins

John Archer’s lively profile of Scottish comic Janey Godley takes us on a dual journey – on the road for her Not Dead Yet Tour with her daughter Ashley Storrie during a period when Godley was undergoing cancer treatment, and into the stand-up comedian’s own turbulent life story. Though she mines the latter for laughs on stage, it’s a biography that includes sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle when she was a child, gangster in-laws and the death of her mother, who Godley believes was murdered.

Manages to balance the grimmer aspects of her life with humour 

The result is an often moving documentary, although Archer, thanks largely to Godley’s upbeat approach, manages to balance the grimmer aspects of her life with humour to make it a crowd-pleasing choice as the closing night film of Glasgow’s Film Festival, her home town. It will then go on limited release across the UK from March 15. A ’ Janey : On Screen & On Stage’ tour will see her perform after showings of the film in a move sure to bolster attendance there. Janey will also air on the BBC at a later date.

Godley has been working the stand-up circuit for years but entered the news cycle in 2018 after she began standing on Trump’s golf courses with protest banners proclaiming: “Trump is a c***” (although Godley is not a woman who believes in censoring her language with asterisks or anything else). She gained further notoriety during the pandemic, particularly in Scotland, with her comic voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid-19 briefings and was even chosen to front a Scottish national health campaign until she spectacularly fell from grace after historic racist tweets surfaced.

Godley didn’t shy away from apologising for that at the time and the film also makes no bones about it, as her manager Chris Davis recounts gigs being cancelled up and down the country; although a conversation Godley has with Jimmy Carr late in the film does feel shoe-horned in as the case for the defence. Not long after she was hit by the tweets scandal, the comic was diagnosed with cancer, and Archer’s film is intercut with footage of her friend Shirley accompanying her for treatment. 

Most of the off-stage content is fly-on-the-wall rather than direct-to-camera interviews, as Godley chats to her mate about the prospect of dying – “it’s in my head all the time” – or has heart-to-hearts with Storrie about her daughter’s tricky childhood. Both women are up-front in their exchanges about a period when Godley went to forge her career in London, leaving Storrie with her autistic and frequently suicidal father. He and Godley have been together since she was 19, although he does not appear on camera here.

There is a sense of timeliness to the film, not least because of the inclusion of snippets from Glasgow’s Aye Write book festival in 2023, which saw Sturgeon and Godley share a stage together not long after the politician stepped down from the top job.

The film is driven by the various destinations on Godley’s tour, where we see both her and Storrie interacting with fans or performing onstage in moments from their acts that draw on their life stories. These are then interwoven with reflections on the past, signalled by the sound of a tape being rewound in the edit from James Alcock, including archive footage of Godley as a child and the period when she ran a Glasgow pub.

In order to aid the trips down memory lane, Godley is seen revisiting her childhood street and the pub in question. It’s a tried and tested formula that is employed successfully by Archer thanks to the candour of all the participants, with the conversational approach encouraging everyone to open up not just about factual detail but the emotions surrounding their recollections. She may not always be right, but Godley is forthright even on difficult subjects – and there is a lot to be said for that.

Production companies: Hopscotch Films

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Producer: John Archer

Cinematography: Laura Kingwell

Editing: James Alcock

Music: John Lemke

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Janey Godley is a comic with the common touch – her final tour is as much communion as standup

Not Dead Yet addresses the return of Godley’s ovarian cancer. But mostly it is a celebratory farewell from a performer who has welcomed the crowd into her remarkable life

N ot Dead Yet is Janey Godley ’s last tour, she has announced. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021 and given the all-clear after treatment – but the cancer has since returned. That’s a very particular context in which to perform a comedy show; one might expect Godley’s mortality to cast a long shadow. But it doesn’t. OK, so the night begins with what Godley’s daughter and support act Ashley Storrie describes as a “sad funeral montage” of snapshots from the 62-year-old’s life. And yes, she addresses her health at the top of the show, with lots of jokes about the state of her “fanny” and a story about her husband bringing her the wrong sort of underwear for a hospital stay.

But her illness isn’t the focus of the show. If this is Godley taking her leave, she wants to leave us with happy memories, of a comic who found a place, particularly in Scottish hearts, and carved her own niche. Until recently that niche was all about earthy stories – spread across memoir, a novel and standup comedy – of an extraordinary working-class life: a childhood lived in extreme poverty, a murdered mother, marriage into a notorious gangster family. Latterly she won a legion of new fans with a series of viral videos in which she dubbed Nicola Sturgeon’s lockdown-era press conferences into gossipy broad Glaswegian.

Whether it’s the autobiographical comedy from a still rare working-class female perspective, or those videos that kept Scotland laughing through a dark time, Godley has formed an uncommon bond with her audience, which performances like these fortify. Gestures such as the pre-show montage, and sharing the stage with Storrie, are about more than comedy: they’re letting the audience into Godley’s own life. So too a sentimental singalong at the end, which is ostensibly a tribute to the comic’s long-dead mum – but no one in the room is missing the resonances with Godley’s own current challenges, as we’re invited to join in on Labi Siffre’s Something Inside So Strong.

The song ends a section all about Godley’s “mammy”, who is cast as an avenging not-quite-angel in one story when infant Janey is punched in the eye by her school headmistress. The strength of these tales of a 1960s childhood are precisely that they feel beamed in from another world, estranged from many of ours not just by class but by distance in time. There’s no doubt, too, that Godley is a mean raconteur – more so on this evidence than a joke-writer. She leans heavily for laughs on coarseness of expression, or on tenuous generalisations of the “Scottish people do this” or “women don’t do that” variety.

But her stories are vivid enough, and sufficiently packed with hair-raising incident, as to need little garnish of wit. See for example the routine about the gallows-humour trick she invents to get her geriatric dad to do his exercises. Alongside these anecdotes, the middle section is given over to Godley’s video voiceovers: an eclectic mix of current affairs clips (Liz Truss, Meghan Markle, Jacob Rees-Mogg et al) and cute animal footage. Sometimes Godley’s dubbed dialogue feels like a blunt instrument; sometimes, the juxtaposition of image and plain-spoken Glasgow patter is judged to perfect comic effect.

It’s one of those gigs, finally, that feels as much communion as comedy, as Godley’s audience seize the chance to see her and share in her stories, unsure whether they’ll get to do so again. She’s not able, she tells us at the curtain call, to come out post-show for a meet-and-greet. Her chemotherapy treatment forbids it. But the preceding hour on stage was already a meet-and-greet of sorts, as this direct and unpretentious performer welcomed the audience, without ceremony, into her remarkable life – for what may be the last time.

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Trailer for Janey Godley documentary revealed ahead of Scottish tour

Audiences across Scotland will have a unique chance to see the film, titled Janey, on the big screen followed by live stand-up from the woman herself.

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The trailer for a new feature documentary about the life of comedian Janey Godley has been released.

Following its world premiere at the closing gala for Glasgow Film Festival 2024, audiences across Scotland will have a unique chance to see the film, titled Janey, on the big screen followed by live stand-up from the woman herself.

Janey: On Screen & On Stage will see the comic reflecting upon life growing up in Glasgow and overcoming personal tragedy to become one of Scotland’s most celebrated comedians. 

The documentary by John Archer about the comic shows how Janey found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she revoiced then first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid briefings.

“First I was cancelled, then I got cancer,” Janey notes as she recalls being called out for racist historic tweets, apologising and then trying to rebuild her career before receiving her diagnosis. 

That didn’t stop her from going on tour and Archer interweaves fly-on-the-wall footage with interviews from people such as Jimmy Carr, Nicola Sturgeon, and Janey’s daughter, Ashley. 

Following the tour screenings, audiences will have the opportunity to experience Janey’s award-winning comedy in person as she steps from screen to stage to perform a live set, share exclusive and hilarious outtakes from the film and answer questions from the crowd. 

“After all I’ve been through these past two years, the film has been the energy boost I needed to pick me up” Janey said. “I hope everyone enjoys the highs and lows of the documentary, there’s laughter and, more than anything, friendship. It’s a love letter to my pals and I can’t wait to see it on the big screen.” 

The tour, which is supported by Screen Scotland, will visit Younger Hall, St Andrews on March 16, Beacon Theatre, Greenock on March 20, Glasgow Film Theatre on March 23, Macrobert Arts Centre in Stirling on April 5, Edinburgh’s Queens on April 6, Bo’ness Hippodrome on April 7, Eden Court, Inverness on April 12, Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy on April 13, Lanternhouse, Cumbernauld on April 14 and the Gardyne Theatre in Dundee on April 20.

Janey will be released in cinemas across the country from March 15.

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Janey Godley ‘Why is She Still Here?’ 2024 Tour.

Against all odds and filled with heaps of chemo Janey Godley returns this Autumn. Controversy, cancellation, and cancer don’t always make the best comedy but in Janey’s hands this will be a dynamite of a gig. The funny Scottish woman behind the voiceovers of Nicola Sturgeon during covid, is back on tour celebrating winning ‘The Billy Connolly, Spirit of Glasgow Comedy Award’. Her feet are numb, and she has a lumpy hernia because of the cancer treatment, but she keeps going! “I can’t believe I’m still alive” she says as many horrid trolls on twitter claim she’s faking cancer “if I was going to fake something it would have been the orgasms I keep having when I realise, they’re obsessed with me!” Voiceovers, comedy, and outrageous stories are on the menu. Don’t miss it. Book now!

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• Janey review: Closing Gala Glasgow Film Festival ★★★☆☆

She’s dealt with criminal gangs, American Presidents, a cancer diagnosis, and 30 years on the comedy circuit. Now Janey Godley confronts the path she’s forged in her new documentary, Janey .

Following Janey’s Not Dead Yet tour, the film takes the audience on a journey through the most impactful moments of the comic’s life. It’s a defiant face-off against a cancer diagnosis that would have many hunkering down.

We learn about her abuse at the hands of an uncle, her mother’s tragic death, run-ins with criminal gangs, and cancel culture. But we are given no answers. It feels like the film is a memorial of the things that Janey doesn’t want people to forget. The things she has achieved, the people she loves, and the wrongs that she has overcome. 

But it wouldn’t be Godley if she didn’t find the funny side. The Glasgow native never lets the audience forget the d**k joke that can be applied to any and every situation. No matter how dire it may first appear.

It can become disorientating how quickly we move from topic to topic. But then again, why would that be surprising for anyone familiar with Godley’s stand-up? It’s quick, cutting, and emotional without minimising Godley’s big personality, on and off the stage.

World premiere

Janey had its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival last week, closing the festivities with a bang. The woman herself had friends, family, and fans lining the red carpet alongside her. It perfectly reflected who this show is for – the people who know her, love her, and have laughed with her all these years. 

People unfamiliar with Godley’s work may indeed struggle in the beginning. Janey doesn’t do much in the way of building a narrative, instead jumping from scene to scene, moving through Godley’s life like a pendulum. That’s a difficult path to follow if you’re not caught up on your lore.

But frankly, it’s not for you. Fans of Godley will enjoy this unflinching memoir of a woman hated by many, but loved by many more. 

Godley is set to tour Scotland with special screenings of the film accompanied by a new live stand-up set based around outtakes of the film with tickets on sale now .

Janey is out in UK cinemas on 15 March.

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Janey Godley The ‘Not Dead Yet’ Tour

Janey godley is ‘still alive, by popular demand’ with a brand-new show for 2023 and can’t wait to be back doing what she does best don't miss her live at the grand hall, kilmarnock in february.

About Janey Godley The ‘Not Dead Yet’ Tour

Janey will be supported by Ashley Storrie, the award-winning comedian best known for hosting BBC Radio Scotland’s Friday nights, and guest slot on Breaking The News. A few words from Janey: My past year has been like a giant “Wordle” game that has swept the nation, I went from “cancel to cancer” in 6 weeks. No, I didn’t smack a man live at the Oscars, in front of millions of people, but I have apologised profusely for historic offensive tweets from over 11 years ago and ended up as the torn worn out pass the parcel for tribal politics in Scotland. All my own doing, but now it’s time to laugh, live and celebrate after dealing this dreadful disease. I suffered severe mental illness during the online onslaught and whilst on my last tour in 2021 found a giant tumour in my ovary giblets and had to FIGHT to stay alive. Never one for the conventional path in life, I am still NOT DEAD YET and bringing my tour back on the road. So many stories of heart-warming love and outpouring of support to the occasional daily messages hoping I might die soon because... well I am a woman who answered back. There will be voiceovers and anecdotes, straight from the woman wouldn’t die or shut up. Come join me!

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JANEY – On Screen and Onstage

Wednesday 8th may, 7pm.

Kicking off with JANEY, the acclaimed new feature film about Janey’s life story and ending with a live stand-up show by Janey Godley in person, the On Screen & On-Stage tour is a one-off chance to see a Scottish comedy icon as she reflects upon life growing up in the harder side of Glasgow, overcoming personal tragedy to become one of Scotland’s most celebrated comedians.

About The Film:

Janey Godley takes centre stage in John Archer’s engaging and insightful documentary about the fearless and funny comic. Janey found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she revoiced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid briefings. “First I was cancelled, then I got cancer,” Janey notes as she recalls being called out for racist historic tweets, apologising and then trying to rebuild her career before receiving her diagnosis. That didn’t stop her from going on tour and Archer interweaves fly-on-the-wall footage with interviews from people such as Jimmy Carr, Nicola Sturgeon, and Janey’s daughter, Ashley, that reveal details of a difficult Glasgow childhood.

Presented by Cosmic Cat and Hopscotch Films. Supported by Screen Scotland.

What To Expect:

Join us as we screen JANEY, followed by a live stand-up set by Janey Godley.

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Feb 14, 2023

DATE / TIME: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 - Wednesday, February 15, 2023 8:00 pm

Janey Godley is ‘still alive, by popular demand’ with a brand-new show for 2023 and can’t wait to be back doing what she does best! Janey will be supported by Ashley Storrie, the award-winning comedian best known for hosting BBC Radio Scotland’s Friday nights, and guest slot on Breaking The News.

A few words from Janey:

My past year has been like a giant “Wordle” game that has swept the nation, I went from “cancel to cancer” in 6 weeks. No, I didn’t smack a man live at the Oscars, in front of millions of people, but I have apologised profusely for historic offensive tweets from over 11 years ago and ended up as the torn worn out pass the parcel for tribal politics in Scotland. All my own doing, but now it’s time to laugh, live and celebrate after dealing this dreadful disease.  

I suffered severe mental illness during the online onslaught and whilst on my last tour in 2021 found a giant tumour in my ovary giblets and had to FIGHT to stay alive. Never one for the conventional path in life, I am still NOT DEAD YET and bringing my tour back on the road. So many stories of heart-warming love and outpouring of support to the occasional daily messages hoping I might die soon because … well I am a woman who answered back.

There will be voiceovers and anecdotes, straight from the woman wouldn’t die or shut up. Come join me!

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GENRE: Comedy

PRICE: £28.00

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Janey Godley to tour with her film

Stand-up and Q&As to accompany new documentary

Janey Godley has confirmed the dates where she will be performing stand-up to accompany the new documentary film about her life.

Chortle last month reported how the feature, entitled simply Janey, would get its premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival on March 10, followed by a tour of Scotland.

Now it has been announced that Godley will appear at ten screenings, starting at St Andrews on March 16 and ending in Dundee on April 20.  Other screenings have also been confirmed, at which the comic will not be performing.

The film follows Godley on her Not Dead Yet tour as she is treated for terminal ovarian cancer, culminating in an emotional hometown show at Glasgow's 3,000-seat SEC Armadillo.

She said: ‘After all I’ve been through these past two years, the film has been the energy boost I needed to pick me up.

‘I hope everyone enjoys the highs and lows of the documentary, there’s laughter and, more than anything, friendship. It’s a love letter to my pals and I can’t wait to see it on the big screen.’

After years on the stand-up circuit, Godley  found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she revoiced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid briefings.  But her new fame brought new scrutiny and she was called out for racists tweets she had made in the past. 

‘First I was cancelled, then I got cancer,’ the comic notes in the film as she tried to  rebuild her career before receiving her diagnosis.

Made by John ​Archer – former head of music and arts at BBC Scotland – the film interweaves fly-on-the-wall footage with interviews from people such as Jimmy Carr , Nicola Sturgeon, and Janey's daughter, Ashley, a comedian who is also a producer of the film.

Where Godley attends the screenings she will also share outtakes from the film and answer questions from the crowd, as well as performing her stand-up.

Godley’s tour dates are here , and details of all screenings are here .

Published: 9 Feb 2024

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The Glaswegian comedian has confirmed she will tour Scotland with special screenings of the new feature documentary about her life accompanied by an exclusive live stand-up set based around outtakes from the film.

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Glasgow's own Janey Godley has revealed she is set to go on tour with special screenings of her new film.

Following its World Premiere as the Closing Gala for Glasgow Film Festival 2024, the comedy star will give audiences across Scotland and beyond the chance to have a unique chance to see ' Janey' on the big screen followed by a live stand-up performance by the comedian herself.

Hailed by Billy Connolly as a "great comedian and an extraordinary life", Janey's new film sees her reflect upon her life growing up on the harder side of Glasgow and overcoming personal tragedy to become one of Scotland's most popular comedians.

Janey: On Screen & On Stage will be a special one-off night of film and live comedy and will see the comedian head to dates in and around Glasgow including the Beacon Theatre in Greenock on March 20, the GFT in Glasgow on March 23, and the Lanternhouse in Cumbernauld, April 14, as well as other dates around the country.

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Janey Godley takes centre stage in John Archer’s engaging and insightful new documentary, which looks at everything from how Janey found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she revoiced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid briefings.

“First I was cancelled, then I got cancer,” Janey notes as she recalls being called out for racist historic tweets, apologising and then trying to rebuild her career before receiving her diagnosis.

Archer interweaves fly-on-the-wall footage with interviews from people such as Jimmy Carr, Nicola Sturgeon, and Janey's daughter, Ashley.

Following the tour screenings, audiences will have the opportunity to experience Janey’s award-winning comedy in person as she steps from screen to stage to perform a live set, share exclusive and hilarious outtakes from the film and answer questions from the crowd.

“After all I’ve been through these past two years, the film has been the energy boost I needed to pick me up” said Janey. “I hope everyone enjoys the highs and lows of the documentary, there’s laughter and, more than anything, friendship. It’s a love letter to my pals and I can’t wait to see it on the big screen”

Tickets for Janey: On Screen & On Stage go on sale from today from the website .

Janey: On Screen & On Stage Tour Dates:

Younger Hall St Andrews 16 March

Beacon Theatre Greenock 20 March

GFT Glasgow 23 March

Macrobert Stirling 5 April

Queens Hall Edinburgh 6 April

Bo’ness Hippodrome 7 April

Eden Court Inverness 12 April

Adam Smith Theatre Dunfermline 13 April

Lanternhouse Cumbernauld 14 April

Gardyne Theatre Dundee 20 April

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