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 08:24AM on November 2, 2024