JANEY GODLEY - Scottish actress, comedienne, author, playwright & journalist

Janey's Blogs - October 2004

janey godley
Posted: 12.15 Oct. 01, 2004

Well the news is out I am going on kings of Comedy.

i decided yesterday and am now looking forward to doing it!

Am slighlty worried about the nightmare and sleep walking thing.....hope i dont frighten the shit out of anyone.

I have bought new pyjamas so at least the nasty bits of my body will be covered up!

I will ask my daughter Ashley to do my blog until i get out at the weekends (feels a bit like an open prison eh?)

She did a good (if not searingly frighteningly honest) job of it when i was in Glastonbury.

In fact she gathered some fans and people wanted her to do it full time.

meanwhile>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is getting really crazy, I never slept at all last night.

I went to the hotel, watched George Bush look like a retarded toddler with a squinty eye arguing with John Kerry in their HEAD TO HEAD....( bet Clinton laughed at that title when he did it)

I giggled as Bush tried to answer coherently, bit like watching my dog when I used to show him chocolate then put it on the table and tell him to 'Jump up' and when he did I snatched it before he could see me...his wee dog face was completely confused.

His wee dog head titled to the side and startled eyes to find the treat was gone but HOW???

That exactly what Bush looked like to me.

So at 4am i decided to wash my hair and blow dry it as I was bored to fucking tears.

I then sat at the hotel bedroom mirror and applied LOADS of make up...like I would NEVER do, I mean I looked like a scary hooker/Boy George/Liza Minelli's freaky ex-husband David Guest.

Finally got bored and washed it all off.

Tried to sleep and ended up with heartburn, overdosed on Gaviscon then read a SAGA magazine that was lying in my room (how the fuck did that get there?, is someone trying to tell me something, should I start making friends with the older generation?)

The articles in the mag did not help, there was Carly Simon on the cover at 58 years old she looks better than I can ever hope to!) I mean -I did not even look like that when I was 17.

Inside was well written pieces about pensioners who walk up mountains ( I cant!)

Older people who have more sex than me (Yukkity yuk)

Women who are at least fifteen years older than me with less bladder control but still look fitter than me full stop!

So after realising that it really is all down hill from here, I lay in the early dawn light wondering if i will be an old woman who dresses in beige or mushroom acrylic.

I could feel my belly starting to sag, my boobs are fast going south, my skin is slowly being dragged downwards in all manners of ways. Oh fuck it..I am old.

Counted the hours to daylight so i could go walking around Earls court without looking like a sad flabby wrinkly old woman with freshly washed hair.

I need to stop this and go back to thinking about the cute black man in my head...he never flinched at my saggyness or my wrinkles.

Thing is....I cant find him anywhere??

My imagination is being drained due to stress!
Oh dear.......

it is now midday and I need lunch.

One more chocolate cake wont hurt...will it?

scuzz
Posted: 15.34 Oct. 01, 2004

Really enjoying blog and has prompted my first post on chortle to say so - does this mean I am a Godley Groupy?

Oh dear!

janey godley
Posted: 09.52 Oct. 02, 2004

Hurrah finally slept a full...well almost full nights sleep.

Had a gig last night at bamboozled near London bridge. It is a lovely room. I was MC, it was a top bill.

Tim Vine, Jo Caufield and Andy Parsons.

There was a fight on the tube, a woman and her man started to really let rip. He pulled her coat to make her sit down and she actually just leaned over and punched him in the balls!

I sat there and watched, I was concerned it may escalate into further violence but he was totally paralysed.

I dont think women should be allowed to hit men anymore than men are allowed to hit women.

He looked so angry as people around sniggered.

it made me wonder how I would feel if my man punched me on the tube and people sat and giggled.

She got up and stood at the door of the train as he sat there still in pain.
"Will you be ok mate?" I leaned over and asked him.

He just looked down and nodded his head.

His girlfriend ( or whatever she was) stared at me and shouted at him "Look everyone is sorry for you" then she laughed.

I felt awful for him, it would be easy to assume that he was a woman beater who finally got his come-uppance but we dont know that.

I felt horrible as I left the train.

Oh well...today is a new day and the last of my 'freedom' till next Thursday night!

I took small washing to the launderette and am off to Kensington High St to buy some towels. The Kings Of Comedy house has no towels and i never pack them as I stay in hotels!

Am quite excited now and looking forward to it all.

I presume I will be voted out first week..but thats life in the big city!

Andrew Maxwell will be there and he is a great comic and fiercely intelligent guy who I respect heaps. He should have been nominated this year at the Fringe.

So my cash is on him to win.

I am now worried about farting on tv.
Yesterday when i thought about it I decided to count how much I fart in a day to see if it was worth worrying about and YES!!! It is worth worrying about as I seem to spend my ENTIRE day fuelling a gas pump inside my colon!

If the USA knew how much natural fuel I can proccess they may invade me next.

I am going to DIE inside that house as all that gas accumulates inside my intestines and slowly kills me internally.

I even fart in my sleep! oh and scream and walk!

Fucking hell I have just worked out that i may actually be more active asleep than awake. How come I cannot do sit ups in my sleep...that would help the fat belly.

I must go and buy stuff and fart all over M&S.

Char
Posted: 18.54 Oct. 02, 2004

As long as you take plenty of deoderant/perfume to hide the smell!

boarding_las
Posted: 21.28 Oct. 03, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

I’m back in charge folks, Mum went into the house today but the first show will not be broadcast till tomorrow on e4. To celebrate this I used my mothers’ credit card that she foolishly forgot, to buy sky TV (the lazy moo taught me to do her signature so I could sign my own school letters because she couldn’t be bothered.) So far I have spent all day in the house watching crummy TV How much fun. No doubt mother dear has gone into the house, demanded a cup of tea and has every one cleaning while she hides in a cupboard pretending to be busy, either that or she’s talked so much that every one wants to slit their wrists. Topics of conversation will include me, her, and her love for Donnie Osmond oh yea and did I say her.

I have managed to run my room in the small space of time she has been away into a pit of unsanitary disgust that I believe a new for of mould may have been developed from a bit of sick, tequila and cheese. I am a genius. I have even forgotten the color of my carpet. I am so Happy. Have a nice night every one. See ya soon. xxxxxxx

Grant
Posted: 00.12 Oct. 04, 2004

I want them to swap The Farm people with the Kings of Comedy.

Think Janey and Stan Coleymore would go down a storm and Debbie McGee can magic Boardman away.

boarding_las
Posted: 03.28 Oct. 04, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Could you imagine my mother on “The Farm” how funny would that be, she probably would create like an anti Sigfeild and Roy thing with all the animals, then set them free with the promise of sun bedded skin and tight lycra to chew on. Then she would do a magic act which involved her hiding Paul Daniels under her boob because she could probably do that no probs. Then kick a chicken because it came to close to her, the chicken would then land on Debbie McGee’s head who would do a ballet dance and pee herself. Mother would be so happy there.

boarding_las
Posted: 18.44 Oct. 04, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

In a few hours time I will be able to watch my mum on TV living in a house with complete strangers, and being constantly watched by complete strangers. This is freaking me out. And to top it off my best friend has decided that she can’t make it to watch the first show with me. I miss my mum, I hate doing house work, and I know she wouldn’t do it either. It just seems so much more now that she’s not here.

I hope she has fun there. And I hope no one will be cruel to her though I’m sure by now she is used to that.

Today again I watched TV. My life just keeps getting better perhaps tomorrow I may leave the house now wouldn’t that be a treat. I keep having really freaky dreams that I’m back at school, and fighting with every one. Matt Blaze was my PE teacher last night and I punched him for not letting me play football. Maybe i'll go for a walk just now. I think my boss thinks I’m unbalanced she hasn’t given me any shifts for this week yet. And she phoned me this morning to ask me how I was. Bizarre eh?

Char
Posted: 20.13 Oct. 04, 2004

lol

Char
Posted: 22.33 Oct. 04, 2004

LOL!

Ive just watched the first Kings of comedy!

Janey should have gotten more than 1 vote for sure!!!!

boarding_las
Posted: 23.30 Oct. 04, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Well that had to be the cruellest thing I ever had to watch in my entire life. They all looked like lambs going to the slaughter. I’m not sure I like the voting system to tell you the truth seems a bit harsh. Think how the all must be feeling to be judged so harshly like that pretty rough eh?

boarding_las
Posted: 16.35 Oct. 05, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Just found out that the free view box I bought to watch mum, will not receive the live feed. So I’m screwed. My boss finally called me and gave me a shift. I’m working 4.30- 8.30 at the opening of a new men’s wear thingy in town. WOOOHOOO I may leave the house after all.

I was really upset when I watched “kings of comedy” which I will now refer to as “KOC”. It seems that the program runners did not know what they were doing. For starters they referred to my mother as a 34 year old, now come on that’s a bit steep being 9 years too young is a bit bizarre; being that she would have had me at 16. Defeating the purpose of her whole “I got married at 16 didn’t have kids till I was 25 which is called infertility.” Gag thing. Also the house is a dive and mum doesn’t drink so she’s buggered.

I believe I may be a culinary genius I am making a shepherds Pie. Though I have run out of potatoes. It may have to be just mince then. Which I suppose is ok.

I am planning to go out tonight which hopefully will be a good laugh but before I do, the ironing needs to be done and such like which is shite. I am turning into a domestic goddess and will probably catch a husband soon. Hopefully a member of busted but not the wee one who looks like a monkey he annoys me as does the short fat one from McFly. I’m rambling now will probably write something in tonight Cause I’ll be drunk and funny.

Grant
Posted: 17.05 Oct. 05, 2004

It's not men's wear. It's a male grooming place. See you tomorrow.

boarding_las
Posted: 23.45 Oct. 05, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

That was a pile of crud, went to the QMU with my friend, turned out to be complete Goth Music which im not to keen on. It was just lots of boys with black on dancing like loonies. Though as an added bonus they had slush puppies with vodka in them for £1-35, this appealed to my inner child. My scary lesbianish friend kept feeling me up under the table, and a lot of people from my old work were there. This was very embarrassing, I left there because the team leader refered to me as the slutty one while I was sitting behind him and I had a bit of a scene, so that was a laugh.

I have not watched the KOC program today and I will watch the repeats later tonight.

Its weird being 18 I keep seeing people who are 16 in clubs who were at my school and feeling disgusted that they are there though when I was that age I was doing the same thing. I am becoming an old woman at 18 which is horrible. I had a dream last night that this guy from my school who I was in love with (Craig McGinley) was the devil and was walking about in his Rugby shorts only. GRRRR! When my phone went I could have killed my boss for calling. He was about to get into the shower. I nearly wept. It’s probably the only chance I’ll get to have any form of sexual contact with that stud. He he he. Hope every one has a nice night.

Love ya all.

Outatime
Posted: 23.55 Oct. 05, 2004

Your Mum's message on the chalk board is really sweet!

boarding_las
Posted: 03.23 Oct. 06, 2004
( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

I miss my mum so much. Because I was out I did not see the show and the message on the chalk board so I stayed up till now to watch it, I wish I could tell her I love her too. It’s so weird, she's written “I love Ashley (my Daughter)” in case they thought this was her lesbian lover or something. Also I never want to see my mother get her tits out on TV ever again. At the end of the show it shot to this young guys face in total shock and disgust. I’ll find him and kill him. Has he never seen a pair of boobies before? Clearly not and probably never will by the looks of him.

It seems to me that the old timers are going to do better than the newbie’s because they have a bunch of old jokes that they can use even though others have done so before them, just because of their wrinkles. I wish mum had drunk more and hadn’t stopped smoking then she’d have lots of wrinkles and could use jokes from crackers as well. No I’m only kidding; I think they are all highly talented people, according to Stan, the women at cleaning. I’m sure he’s a really nice guy I think it’s just the way they’ve edited it that makes him seem a bit of a bigoted old man, or that could just be crowned as freedom of speech. I agreed with him slightly on the racist thing, I don’t think that people should mock other people for there colour or creed, however I do not think people in any business should be looked over for not being of an ethnic minority race, which does happen sometimes. But as Britain stands now ethnicity in minorities is becoming less and less as we are becoming such a varied and culturally enriched society.

Paul Knacker
Posted: 23.02 Oct. 06, 2004

I think it was Frank Carson who said "It's the WAY you tell 'em"..........

boarding_las
Posted: 00.48 Oct. 07, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Today I actually worked, so that’s a good thing, I was working at a male grooming place beside Ann summers in town, I t was really good fun.

Every one kept saying what a good bar maid I was which was really nice to hear in a weird way because mum was known for being a good bar maid and now I am. Since tonight’s show I like Stan Boardman a lot more, Mum seems to be getting on well with him, and although I don’t agree with his views on some things I think He seems to be an ok Guy, also It must have been a challenge for him to do Scott’s gay materiel but he pulled It off quite well from what I have heard and seen. Mum was drinking beer today which is a thing I have never seen her do before in my entire life.

While at a friends café after work this guy read my palm and told me that I would have loads of men in my life, I won’t need to work because I’ll live off them, 2 marriages and 5 kids, he also said I was bossy and have the longest passion/ romance line he’s ever seen. I’m so happy I'm going to be a sex kitten. But then he looked at my fingers and he said that all the wee lines on my knuckles meant I was frustrated but would reach my goal, I thought those lines were just because I have fat fingers, also they were swollen from putting my hands in buckets of ice while working. The guy was a major screen righter so he probably has a very vivid imagination, but then again he did say I was sceptical.

Grant
Posted: 01.23 Oct. 07, 2004

You were a great barmaid.

Nick P
Posted: 13.46 Oct. 07, 2004

Ashley, I don’t know how to break this to you, but…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1321496,00.html

superfurryandy
Posted: 19.08 Oct. 07, 2004

(Nick P @ 13.46 Oct. 07, 2004)
Ashley, I don’t know how to break this to you, but…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1321496,00.html

So, will McFly come out in support of the Third Way?

Anyway, does this change your feelings about Busted at all, Ashley?

BTW - my mate at work knows one of 'em, or his parents at least.

boarding_las
Posted: 19.35 Oct. 07, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

This does not change my feelings on busted in the slightest, I never like them for they’re brains or political standings I liked them because they had tight arses, nice smiles and manly gripping features. Also they play guitars and have casual sex with fans, so there political swaying bothers me not.

I myself shall not disclose who I intend to vote for though it will not be Labour. About McFly I think we should kill the short blonde fatty one with the dimples, he gets on my tits and made me punch a table today.
Did anyone else read about the guy who took his girlfriend to Spain then ate her? He told police that his girl friend went with him under the pretences that he was going there to kill and eat paedophiles. Not a good all inclusive Buffet then? Must be a Thompson’s break.

Tonight is the night of the public vote which means all of you who have E4 can vote for my mother and keep her in the house so I can have more parties, take more drugs, and hopefully if me and superfurryandy can get talking sleep with all three members of busted, even though I don’t like the monkey one James. So Vote vote vote and let me fulfil the prophesy of my sex kitten life style the psychic proclaimed last night.

boarding_las
Posted: 22.52 Oct. 07, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Screw Up on Kings of comedy.

Never in my life have I seen such disgusting production, how the hell could they put Scott and Stan through that, It was plain evil.

Even though Stan got through he looked utterly revolted at the means used to put him through.

It was claimed that the phone lines were not operational though I think it is highly likely that no one phoned, at all. As a result the two comedians were faced with a hastily counted hand vote from the bewildered audience.

You would think that a channel so reputable on the network would have a back up plan for the chance that perhaps no one would vote, however that again was something they had not considered in the running of this show

Russell Brand desperately tried to claw his way out of the hole that endemol and channel 4 had dug for him.

This fiasco has even over cast the fact that my mother is through to the next round. The only thing that makes me happy is that my mother was not put through that soul ripping and torrid ordeal that Scott and Stan faced live on television.

I now wish that I had not goaded my mother into doing this disaster of a television program, not just because of the poor quality of production and management but also because I hyperventilated when she got through, and I can’t cope with such things.

oldgoldrich
Posted: 12.52 Oct. 08, 2004

(boarding_las @ 22.52 Oct. 07, 2004)

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Screw Up on Kings of comedy.
Never in my life have I seen such disgusting production, how the hell could they put Scott and Stan through that, It was plain evil.
Even though Stan got through he looked utterly revolted at the means used to put him through.
It was claimed that the phone lines were not operational though I think it is highly likely that no one phoned, at all. As a result the two comedians were faced with a hastily counted hand vote from the bewildered audience.
You would think that a channel so reputable on the network would have a back up plan for the chance that perhaps no one would vote, however that again was something they had not considered in the running of this show . Russell Brand desperately tried to claw his way out of the hole that endemol and channel 4 had dug for him.
This fiasco has even over cast the fact that my mother is through to the next round. The only thing that makes me happy is that my mother was not put through that soul ripping and torrid ordeal that Scott and Stan faced live on television.
I now wish that I had not goaded my mother into doing this disaster of a television program, not just because of the poor quality of production and management but also because I hyperventilated when she got through, and I can’t cope with such things.

My wife wanted Scott to go through and she spent ten minutes on the phone repeatedly getting a message saying "The phone lines are now closed". She got so frustrated, she tried the original number which was on the Kings of Comedy website and then she got a message saying "If you want to vote for *blank* press one" and this continued up to five. What the hell is that all about?! That surely means that all five should have been up, doesn't it?!

What I don't understand on the Channel 4 microsite as well is why there are five silhouettes with the word "Vote!" above them when you can only vote between two people anyway! Does this also imply that they were thinnking of putting all five comics up for the vote at some point?

The whole thing is a shambles and I wouldn't blame the comics not going back on Monday once they see how badly organised the whole thing is when they leave the house this weekend.

janey godley
Posted: 12.52 Oct. 08, 2004

Janey Here, I am FREE!

I am thoroughly disgusted at the way they treated Stan and Scott. I cried backstage. That was a horrible ordeal and could have so easily been any of us comics up there.

The show is designed to make us do very weird comedy stuff.

I swapped acts with boothby and he got top points-but that was NEVER shown! They showed Ava getting NO points and that was sad but she DID a great gig on the live show.

I dont drink but ended up having a couple of beers so I could sleep at night.

Stan is the FUNNIEST man in the world and the night we played "Quick on the Draw" will stay with me till I die, I laughed so much I hurt my kidney.
He is really Old school in every sense of the word and does not really understand "politcal correctness" at all. To make it more confusing he heard Scott do his "Darkie" stuff and was terribly mixed up at why it was ok for Scott but not ok for Stan.

We all tried to keep reminded Stan that his off hand comments would make him look bad on TV, he did NOT understand we were being taped EVERYMINUTE!

I had to explain the voting rules and stuff over and over and it makes me look shady as i explain my version of what will happen...oh well!

I am terribly upset that Endemol are trying to stand by that really shit "handvote" at the end of the shambolic episode. We all need to question the motives of Endemol and why they allowed this to happen.Time to put the politics that we preach in INTO action...no use saying it if you dont use it.

I am enjoying the experience of learning new ways to work-double acts-swapping material-collaberating...etc..

I know I come across as harsh Glasweigan and I did give the constant heckler (Easton) a blast of my anger, that is what i would have done on any other occasion.

He was heckling and talking throughout everyone's set and Endemol just let him. I did chat to him at the end and make friends, he got quite confused and bewildered as the night progressed but no doubt that was never shown on camera and Stan told him to go "back to Jamaica" (as only Stan would!)...

But we will see what happens next.

Even I am not sure.

oldgoldrich
Posted: 13.02 Oct. 08, 2004

(janey godley @ 12.52 Oct. 08, 2004)

Janey Here, I am FREE!
I am thoroughly disgusted at the way they treated Stan and Scott. I cried backstage. That was a horrible ordeal and could have so easily been any of us comics up there.
The show is designed to make us do very weird comedy stuff.
I swapped acts with boothby and he got top points-but that was NEVER shown! They showed Ava getting NO points and that was sad but she DID a great gig on the live show.
I dont drink but ended up having a couple of beers so I could sleep at night.
Stan is the FUNNIEST man in the world and the night we played "Quick on the Draw" will stay with me till I die, I laughed so much I hurt my kidney.
He is really Old school in every sense of the word and does not really understand "politcal correctness" at all. To make it more confusing he heard Scott do his "Darkie" stuff and was terribly mixed up at why it was ok for Scott but not ok for Stan.
We all tried to keep reminded Stan that his off hand comments would make him look bad on TV, he did NOT understand we were being taped EVERYMINUTE!
I had to explain the voting rules and stuff over and over and it makes me look shady as i explain my version of what will happen...oh well!
I am terribly upset that Endemol are trying to stand by that really shit "handvote" at the end of the shambolic episode. We all need to question the motives of Endemol and why they allowed this to happen.Time to put the politics that we preach in INTO action...no use saying it if you dont use it.
I am enjoying the experience of learning new ways to work-double acts-swapping material-collaberating...etc..
I know I come across as harsh Glasweigan and I did give the constant heckler (Easton) a blast of my anger, that is what i would have done on any other occasion.
He was heckling and talking throughout everyone's set and Endemol just let him. I did chat to him at the end and make friends, he got quite confused and bewildered as the night progressed but no doubt that was never shown on camera and Stan told him to go "back to Jamaica" (as only Stan would!)...
But we will see what happens next.
Even I am not sure.

I checked the Voting Terms and Conditions on the Channel 4 website in the light of the farcical voting on "Kings Of Comedy". What do you make of these:

"You may cast your vote by premium rate telephone vote. There are no alternative voting methods."

Well there was last night, wasn't there?!

Vote lines open and close as advertised on the Channel 4 programme 'The Kings of Comedy'. Votes cast outside of these times will not be counted.

Well, the votes were counted when the phone lines were closed last night, weren't they?!

Under no circumstances will there be a refund for any vote cast or for any misdialled calls.

Does this mean anyone who dialled the ruined lines last night have been charged for phoning them?

What an absolute disgrace! I still can't believe that we never got to see Boothby doing yourself Janey and vice versa. Surely this isn't right?! The editing has been appalling.

We all need to question the motives of Endemol and why they allowed this to happen.

Outatime
Posted: 14.15 Oct. 08, 2004

I didn't think they showed your act. I got all confused because I really like Boothby's stuff so was looking forward to seeing you do it. I asked my housemate if I'd just been looking away at the time you came on and he just shrugged. Useless boy!

martynsadler
Posted: 16.23 Oct. 08, 2004

(oldgoldrich @ 13.02 Oct. 08, 2004)

We all need to question the motives of Endemol and why they allowed this to happen.

The chairman of Endemol is:

Peter Bazalgette
Endemol UK
Shepherds Studios - Central
Charecroft Way
Shepherds Bush
London W14 0EE
(switchboard: 0870 333 1700)

General e-mails can be sent to Endemol via:
http://www.endemoluk.com/contact/index.jsp

but I recommend the Bazalgette route

Michael_McEwan
Posted: 16.26 Oct. 08, 2004

I'm mighty confused - who won?!?!?

Grant
Posted: 16.32 Oct. 08, 2004

(martynsadler @ 16.23 Oct. 08, 2004)

(oldgoldrich @ 13.02 Oct. 08, 2004)

We all need to question the motives of Endemol and why they allowed this to happen.

The chairman of Endemol is:

Peter Bazalgette
Endemol UK
Shepherds Studios - Central
Charecroft Way
Shepherds Bush
London W14 0EE
(switchboard: 0870 333 1700)

General e-mails can be sent to Endemol via:
http://www.endemoluk.com/contact/index.jsp

but I recommend the Bazalgette route

Not that he'll care. Anyone who complains is just a grumpy old man to him.

Anthony Miller
Posted: 17.28 Oct. 08, 2004

Quote (martynsadler @ 16.23 Oct. 08, 2004)

Quote (oldgoldrich @ 13.02 Oct. 08, 2004)

We all need to question the motives of Endemol and why they allowed this to happen.

The chairman of Endemol is:

Peter Bazalgette

Peter Bazalgette would rape a teddy bear.

Everyone knows this - you do not need to send for Poirot -
....so someone tell me the mystery here about which questions need to be asked?

martynsadler
Posted: 19.19 Oct. 08, 2004

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1323193,00.html

jug
Posted: 19.56 Oct. 08, 2004

Here's the transcript from The Guardian -

" Kings of Comedy fail to see the funny side

John Plunkett
Friday October 8, 2004

A Big Brother-style show for comedians on E4 has descended into chaos after the telephone lines broke down and the comics threatened to revolt.

Channel 4 was bombarded with complaints after the technical hitch on Kings of Comedy, which pitches old-school comics such as Stan Boardman and Mick Miller against the new generation of stand-up comedians.

Perrier award-winner Scott Capurro was voted off the show after producers were forced to take a studio vote when the phone lines broke down. But viewers complained that the audience poll was unfair, and the stand-ups were so unhappy with the decision they were reportedly on the verge of walking out of the series.

A source close to the production said some of the comics were still considering quitting the show, which is made by the Big Brother producer, Endemol.

"Even though Stan [Boardman] got through he looked utterly revolted at the means used to put him through," said Ashley Godley, the daughter of Janey Godley, one of the comics taking part.

"It was claimed that the phone lines were not operational, though I think it is highly likely that no one phoned at all. As a result, the two comedians were faced with a hastily counted hand vote from the bewildered audience," she said in her webblog.

"You would think that [such a] a reputable channel would have a back-up plan for the chance that perhaps no one would vote, however, that again was something they had not considered in the running of the show."

Eight stand-ups were chosen for the show, which began on E4 this week. One comic is voted off in each of the first four weeks before the four finalists compete in a grand final.

Some of the comics, who are living together in a Big Brother-style house, are still considering quitting the show. "They are far from happy with the way things have turned out so far," said a source.

Boardman and Capurro were up for the first "eviction" in last night's show. The Liverpudlian comedian - infamous for his repeated use of the word "Fokker" on the Des O'Connor show - survived the audience vote but viewers complained of a miscount.

"It was the biggest most obvious fix I have ever seen," claimed one viewer. Another said: "I just hope the comics don't go back into the house on Monday after realising what a farce it has been so far. Phone lines down, really bad editing, no major advertising. They'd be fools to go back in there!"

"Stan Boardman was stunned for once," complained a viewer on the programme's website. "You could tell he was very angry."

An E4 spokeswoman admitted there had been a miscount but said it would not have affected the result. "The comedians weren't happy because the phone lines didn't work and they have bonded quite well over the week," she said.

"The production company went back to check the votes. There was a miscalculation but it was not enough to affect the decision. We went to the audience because it was the next best thing to a phone vote."

The "old school" comics are represented by Boardman, Miller, Goldman and David Copperfield. Among the new talent, Capurro is joined by Boothby Graffoe, Ava Vidal and Andrew Maxwell.

A spokeswoman for producer Endemol said: "An audience vote was the fairest decision we could make. Everyone was obviously very upset with the phone vote not working.

"The comedians were upset by the way things turned out but we are talking to them now and hopefully they will come back on Sunday."

Highlights from the first week of the E4 show will air on Channel 4 at 10.30pm tonight. Kings of Comedy was one of the first shows made under a 300-hour production deal between E4 and Endemol. It is being made in the producer's new Bristol studios.

scottish jojo
Posted: 23.58 Oct. 08, 2004

The "old school" comics are represented by Boardman, Miller, Goldman and David Copperfield. Among the new talent, Capurro is joined by Boothby Graffoe, Ava Vidal and Andrew Maxwell.

along with the farce that is channel 4's programming even the guardian can't get the names of the comics right - who the hell is Goldman?????

milly molly mandy
Posted: 10.43 Oct. 09, 2004

seriously Janey what are you getting out of this ?

Is the programme letting you or Ava shine you're both funny women but you'd never know it from this Shambolic mess .Endemol don't care about you they just want a cheap show done on a shoestring they couldn't operate the phones FFS
How could scott get booted off when he had the best gig ?

I say WALK AND KEEP ON WALKING ...

but sadly cause its telly You'll probably all be there on monday "working for the man "

janey godley
Posted: 12.40 Oct. 09, 2004

well I watched last night and it was appalling that they edited Boothby "doing " my act as he WON the most points...and me playing his guitar and singing WON the second most points!...they cut EVERYTHING I spoke about (Y'all know how much i talk eh?) I looked like a wee shy person who never spoke or laughed.

At the end you hear me scream at the show for the way they treated Stan and Scott, everyone else looked quiet...that is not true we ALL were upset.

I played "hide and seek" "cricket" and even ran around the house with a plastic gun and shot everyone, I took the gun on stage and fired at my head during voting ! All of this was cut.

I chatted with Stan abouit drugs and death and other stuff, he was very intelligent and curious during this chat...all of that was cut!

I have been edited out and to me they make Andrew look like someone who chatted too much about being called "Paddy" and was giving Stan a big lecture about politcal correctness.Which we were ALL doing.

anyway...I have had fun in London this last two days, Ashley is here with me and i missed her so much it hurt.

I cried on the last day in the house as one of the house mates sang and banged a drum to "The Sash my father wore" an "Orange Lodge" song that my abusive uncle used to sing to me, i fell apart as I had not heard that bigotted song in years and I burst into tears.

The person singing it DID NOT EVER know the effect it would have on me and I felt terrible that it made them sad for upsetting me, but my emotions were raw and that song really gets to me. Plus I hate bigotry of any kind at all.It took me back to it all.

I am going to spend today trying to work out how I feel about Scott's eviction. That was horrendous that they put Scott and Stan through that awful last minute hand vote thing. I am appalled.
speak soon.

jug
Posted: 13.34 Oct. 09, 2004

So Janey, what WOULD make you walk away ?

(other than the withdrawal of the money of course)

Spider
Posted: 13.44 Oct. 09, 2004

Watched this show last light, the editing was fucking dogs' shit.

Grant
Posted: 14.02 Oct. 09, 2004

Some primary schoolkids with a PD170 and a decent spec laptop could have made a better show than this.

It's a bizarre and poorly made piece of shite.

Can I be quoted in The Guardian saying this, please?

Come on Janey, name names on The Sash thing.

janey godley
Posted: 17.24 Oct. 09, 2004

I spoke to Scott and he suggested that if I am to walk out alone on the principle it would be a waste of time as they will cover it up.

I think we either ALL need to stand strong against ANYONE who manipulates or tries to compromise our work ethics. I stood alone before against a company that tried to compromise my right to work and believe me EVERY comic with a socialist background watched me go alone and said NOTHING!( how i recall that one!)

But that does not mean i dont keep standing up for my principles.

I believe in my heart that Endemol made a mistake with the end voting thing, I really dont believe it was planned. But that excuses nothing.

I am still; very confused.

I think the reason they will not allow Scott back in for another week is because they phisically cant. I asked that question on Thursday night...
"Is there a strategical reason that you cannot allow Scott back in for another week? Would it interfere with the way the show would be run?" and the producer looked at his shoes and stammered.

I believe that they need Scott out as they have plans for his bed space. I said this on Thursday and I am saying it again NOW. I think there is a new housemate tomorrow and they have no more room for anyone else.

I am not sure of anything now other than the fact that they made me look like a wee quiet mouse...I am glad of this as i do have a reputation for being an over chatty freak who is manic.

I care about Ava, Andrew, Boothby, Scott, Mick, Stan and David.

I dont want anyone hurt, if they thought we would be at each others throats then they are wrong.

We all may have said inadvertent comments but by and large we became a group.

I am still confused.

I wish I felt better, this is why I had BIG reservations about doing the show.

Should have fucking listened to my inner voice

artley
Posted: 18.57 Oct. 09, 2004

I'm living avorad, so untouched by the whole thing, bgut your angst sounds genuine and is touching. Could the thing to do be to go back and disregard the rules/orders? They can edit to their hearts' content, but the press would still have a fucking field day with it, thus ensuring great exposure and staying true to yourself

milly molly mandy
Posted: 19.09 Oct. 09, 2004

see you on T.V on Monday then .

janey godley
Posted: 22.15 Oct. 09, 2004

well I am going back in, after all the conversations I had with the others.

I do hope this week I get to be shown getting good points and stuff as last week I had a great sketch with Scott which won some points and me performing Boothby's stuff was interesting, but all they showed was me doing an old "tit" type gag.

It is hard for me in a way as I am not "gag" based but I put myself up for the challenge and cannot whinge now!

My material is much more longer story telling stuff and surreal stuff...but who knows? Maybe I will learn more this week?

Ava is doing well to be honest and it is heartwarming to see her confidence soar as she gets stronger each night.

I am going to stop eating my hair....on TV.

jug
Posted: 23.25 Oct. 09, 2004

" Maybe I will learn more this week? "

maybe there's a letter l to many there, Janey

purplekelly
Posted: 20.38 Oct. 10, 2004

Kind of disappointed with all the comics going back in. Could they not get out of their contracts? It is not about the exposure as it isn't getting any.

The only people who are watching it know a fair bit about most of the participants.

What is the point of talking the talk if they can't walk the walk?

Didn't Janey say "Time to put the politics that we preach in INTO action...no use saying it if you dont use it."

I know she mentioned Scott told her not to walk if she was going to be alone - but why did no one else walk?

Char
Posted: 23.36 Oct. 10, 2004

Hope it goes well this week Janey.

Anthony Miller
Posted: 09.30 Oct. 11, 2004

(janey godley @ 12.40 Oct. 09, 2004)

well I watched last night and it was appalling that they edited

I agree - the editing is appalling.

Ava Vidal comes over as a normal, sane, ballenced person
and I for one know that this is not the case!

boarding_las
Posted: 13.28 Oct. 11, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

My mother did not go back in that dreaded hell hole because of a lack in any moral or principle standings, she re entered due to those qualities.

She realised that Endemol had not treated Stan and Scott in such a way out of spite or malice, but due to the fact that they were stupid and that the programme is being run by people who have cows licks, braces and still have not hit puberty.

I believe that she went back in, to prove she could. She wants to shine on that TV programme.

So many people have tried to stop her from shining before due to jealousy, fear or just plain stupidity. And has she ever let any of these people stop her before? I think you will find not.

And I have to say I am chuffed that she’s gone back in. When Scott was evicted in that crude manner she did not stand silently, if any one had watched the program they would have seen her kick up a hell of a fuss with a small echo in the room of one or two other comedians. But even Scott - the person she was fighting for - told her to go back in. And so now she will fight another battle back in that house against audiences, the editors and of course her hair biting problem.

shAke
Posted: 13.30 Oct. 11, 2004
So she didn't go back in cos she's hungry for fame, attention, money and a possible tv pilot show for the winner?

Grant
Posted: 13.39 Oct. 11, 2004

I doubt it.

ashleyfrieze
Posted: 13.39 Oct. 11, 2004

Quote So she didn't go back in cos she's hungry for fame, attention, money and a possible tv pilot show for the winner?

I don't see why we should judge anyone negatively on doing what is necessary to be a professional comedian in this country. If that means working on a TV show, then so be it.

Given that this particular show is putting a lot of pressure on all of the acts concerned, I think it's very brave of everyone to continue - I hope that all participants come out of this feeling that they're stronger for having faced the unnecessary gruelling ordeal that the Endemol people have designed out of some twisted sense of "programme making".

The fact that many of us know the acts concerned is probably an interested way to show us how all these reality TV programmes are less about more reality and more about subjective editing. So, whoever watches this piece of "TV" should bear that in mind if they're forming opinions about the comedians that they have not met personally.

shAke
Posted: 13.50 Oct. 11, 2004

Quote (ashleyfrieze @ 13.39 Oct. 11, 2004)

Quote

So she didn't go back in cos she's hungry for fame, attention, money and a possible tv pilot show for the winner?

I don't see why we should judge anyone negatively on doing what is necessary to be a professional comedian in this country. If that means working on a TV show, then so be it.

All of that may be true, but I never said otherwise.

Grant
Posted: 14.09 Oct. 11, 2004

Quote (ashleyfrieze @ 13.39 Oct. 11, 2004)

I don't see why we should judge anyone negatively on doing what is necessary to be a professional comedian in this country.

Going on a shit reality tv show isn't necessary.

ashleyfrieze
Posted: 15.58 Oct. 11, 2004

Quote (Grant @ 14.09 Oct. 11, 2004)

Quote (ashleyfrieze @ 13.39 Oct. 11, 2004)

I don't see why we should judge anyone negatively on doing what is necessary to be a professional comedian in this country.

Going on a shit reality tv show isn't necessary.

Isn't it?

Then why did the comedians go onto it? For fun? For the love of TV? For people to sneer at them? To be treated badly by an editing team?

Perhaps it takes a lot of risk-taking and effort to advance one's comedy career. Perhaps a professional comedian needs to do this sort of thing if it's offered. It's probably not a good indicator of the state of entertainment in this country, but that's not the participants' fault.

jug
Posted: 16.25 Oct. 11, 2004

I would argue that it is " .... a good indicator of the state of entertainment in this country," TV wise that is.

And as long as there are mugs to debase the art then it will be so.

It is naive to think you are achieving anything when you have no control over the output. When you have willingly handed that control over that to " a programme ... being run by people who have cows licks, braces and still have not hit puberty. "

Do you think their agenda is yours ?

Whose views will be seen on TV, yours or theirs ?

"Then why did the comedians go onto it? "

For the money. Be under no illusions.

For any act that bases their act and material upon social comment this knocks one helluva hole in their credibilty.

Rattle that tin cup, monkey boy

Grant
Posted: 16.28 Oct. 11, 2004

Quote (ashleyfrieze @ 15.58 Oct. 11, 2004)

Quote (Grant @ 14.09 Oct. 11, 2004)

Quote (ashleyfrieze @ 13.39 Oct. 11, 2004)

I don't see why we should judge anyone negatively on doing what is necessary to be a professional comedian in this country.

Going on a shit reality tv show isn't necessary.

Isn't it?

No, it isn't.

boarding_las
Posted: 17.02 Oct. 11, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Everyone is right in their own way, I suppose. It’s all your own opinions and although I may not like some of your opinions, I will die to defend your right to have one.

So mums doing a dowdy program, and she has made a choice that has caused a bit of a stir, Jug is right she has no control in there but her choice to go back in, was in her control and to go back was the decision she made. Perhaps it was wrong and perhaps it was right, all I know is that it was her decision and I’ll stick by her, I may not agree with what she does but I will stick by her. Every ones choices can not please every one else. If this was true we would live in a utopia where no one got hurt.

While you all whittle on about mums views and political standings, I’m sitting alone in the house missing my mum, I don’t like the fact that she’s away but I have respected her choice, and I will stand by this decision and any decision she will make in the future. She is enjoying the time spent in the house and is learning and having a great time. However the editors are not showing every one enjoying this experience equally. In that house every day they are all having diverse satisfaction and usage of the situation they have been placed in. Even though we are not shown this.

People who go on television must realise that bad editing or good editing or the way people are perceived is the nature of the beast, and every one who has made it in media attention, has gone through the mincer and come out tattered but successful. She wants this and so she will allow them to mince her. No matter what the out come at least she had the balls to step up and do it.

And lets face it i think shes jut doing it so i can meet busted!

Paulie Paul N.
Posted: 18.18 Oct. 11, 2004

(boarding_las @ 17.02 Oct. 11, 2004)

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Everyone is right in their own way, I suppose. It’s all your own opinions and although I may not like some of your opinions, I will die to defend your right to have one.
So mums doing a dowdy program, and she has made a choice that has caused a bit of a stir, Jug is right she has no control in there but her choice to go back in, was in her control and to go back was the decision she made. Perhaps it was wrong and perhaps it was right, all I know is that it was her decision and I’ll stick by her, I may not agree with what she does but I will stick by her. Every ones choices can not please every one else. If this was true we would live in a utopia where no one got hurt. While you all whittle on about mums views and political standings, I’m sitting alone in the house missing my mum, I don’t like the fact that she’s away but I have respected her choice, and I will stand by this decision and any decision she will make in the future. She is enjoying the time spent in the house and is learning and having a great time. However the editors are not showing every one enjoying this experience equally. In that house every day they are all having diverse satisfaction and usage of the situation they have been placed in. Even though we are not shown this.
People who go on television must realise that bad editing or good editing or the way people are perceived is the nature of the beast, and every one who has made it in media attention, has gone through the mincer and come out tattered but successful. She wants this and so she will allow them to mince her. No matter what the out come at least she had the balls to step up and do it.

And lets face it i think shes jut doing it so i can meet busted!

Ashley, I wouldn't take it to heart, round these parts they're just like that.

Your Mum's cool.

Grant
Posted: 18.23 Oct. 11, 2004

(boarding_las @ 17.02 Oct. 11, 2004)

Everyone is right in their own way, I suppose.

Apart from Ashley. Him, not you.

boarding_las
Posted: 22.15 Oct. 11, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Today my wee pal Adam who lists everything from his favorite food to his favorite people phoned 2day, I haven’t spoke to him in a while because he had a very old boy friend who I did not agree with POOO! He is on the phone talking to me as I do this, and his pain in the arse dad is shouting about the cost of phone calls, even though I phoned him. This reminds me of my own father.

He has to be the funniest old little boy I have ever met. everything is so funny just now he's telling me all the funny gossip about the schools goings on, I cant stop pissing myself at how superficial all that shit about winter balls and who’s going with who is. He has been reading the blog and has found a reference to him self. “Ashley nearly punched the little gay boy.” He’s squealing down the phone. I miss my little gay friend.

this may seem insignificant to every one, but he did ask me to write a bit about him and i obliged because he is so cute and small and has a habbit of dressing like a very old queen. He is destined for soho and a cross dressing club for over dramatic gay people, maybe we will make a scottish, Will and Grace he is a mini me of Jack.

ashleyfrieze
Posted: 02.01 Oct. 12, 2004

Quote (Grant @ 18.23 Oct. 11, 2004)

Quote (boarding_las @ 17.02 Oct. 11, 2004)

Everyone is right in their own way, I suppose.

Apart from Ashley. Him, not you.

Thanks for singling me out Grant.

My point is that I don't see it as necessary to criticise professional comedians for participating in a TV show which pays comedians to perform. There are other ways to get ahead in the comedy business, but if someone takes an opportunity (whether it be a good one or a bad one) then I say good luck to them.

I don't believe that any of the comedians in the show usually base their comedy on a hatred of TV and publicity, so I don't see that anyone is compromising their integrity.

Since this is Janey's thread, then let me turn this back into what I intended, which is a vote of confidence for her. Ashley is also doing a great job of keeping us updated in her absence. Mind you, I already held both of these ladies in high regard.

johnfleming
Posted: 08.23 Oct. 12, 2004

Yes, it's Janey's thread and, as she's incommunicado until Friday, I think we should wait until then and meanwhile settle back and listen to her daughter Ashley's tales. I want to know more about Ashley's chums and what's happening in Janey's absence.

Janey makes her own decisions about what she does but did not finally decide to go back into the house until quite late on Saturday night. There was a very strong possibility she would not go back in. I was one of the people who argued to her that she should go back in. My argument was that, ultimately, last Thursday's visibly incorrect vote did not actually damage Scott Capurro or his career. All it further damaged was Endemol's reputation. And it is no small matter that Scott also told her she should go back into the house.

It was a very difficult decision for Janey to make and one she agonised over throughout Friday and Saturday. As far as I know, everyone who advised her told her to go back in. She very nearly did not.

Arthur Daley
Posted: 11.56 Oct. 12, 2004

(jug @ 16.25 Oct. 11, 2004)

I would argue that it is " .... a good indicator of the state of entertainment in this country," TV wise that is.

And as long as there are mugs to debase the art then it will be so.

Do you think their agenda is yours ?

Whose views will be seen on TV, yours or theirs ?

" Then why did the comedians go onto it? "

For the money. Be under no illusions.

For any act that bases their act and material upon social comment this knocks one helluva hole in their credibilty.

Rattle that tin cup, monkey boy

There you go again with that nasty little social concience again, jug.
I've told you before you wont get nowhere in life with that kind of attitude.

In life there is only one scoring system. It is called money.

Anthony Miller
Posted: 14.09 Oct. 12, 2004

(johnfleming @ 08.23 Oct. 12, 2004)

It was a very difficult decision for Janey to make and one she agonised over throughout Friday and Saturday.

Please .... don't .....

Grant
Posted: 14.17 Oct. 12, 2004

Quote (ashleyfrieze @ 02.01 Oct. 12, 2004)

Quote (Grant @ 18.23 Oct. 11, 2004)

Quote (boarding_las @ 17.02 Oct. 11, 2004)

Everyone is right in their own way, I suppose.

Apart from Ashley. Him, not you.

Thanks for singling me out Grant.

I'm sorry, I was kidding.

Archduke
Posted: 15.17 Oct. 12, 2004

Quote (Anthony Miller @ 14.09 Oct. 12, 2004)

Quote (johnfleming @ 08.23 Oct. 12, 2004)

It was a very difficult decision for Janey to make and one she agonised over throughout Friday and Saturday.

Please .... don't .....

How do you know what her motivation was? Only an idiot makes assumptions.

boarding_las
Posted: 16.21 Oct. 12, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Come on people enough already, when she gets out at the weekend why don’t you ask her to talk about it, I’m sick of all you guys making comments on my mothers political standings, its getting boring lets talk about some thing else. So that pedantic little sarcastic gits can’t make nasty little comments, that to tell you the truth are probably the only turn on they get.

I am being a little harsh but I want people to talk about busted and people from school who bullied you and who are now fat and ugly, or who’s ex boyfriends who they still love you’ve nabbed.

Now I am going to baby sit my wee cousins because at least they can’t form full sentences yet and so cannot, ask strange questions or make presumptions.

.I’ve said “you are all right” now quit it before I have to give you all a good spanking

Dan the Man
Posted: 18.39 Oct. 12, 2004

well well well

oldgoldrich
Posted: 22.43 Oct. 12, 2004

What the hell happened to the improv show on tonight's King Of Comedy?! No material from Boothby, no material from Janey, no material from Mick and very little material from Andrew! Surely this show cannot get any worse! This show is meant to be about comedy and we're not even getting five minutes of stand-up in a half hour highlights show!

boarding_las
Posted: 17.51 Oct. 13, 2004
( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Hey folks, hope you are all doing well. Things are going really well for mum at the moment she is top of the leader board with 88 votes it’s so cool. Though that could all change. Last week Stan was top of the leader board and then ended up for public vote. I just pray that she is kept in she has so much to give people. I am watching the final episode of friends and so will probably end up crying in the next ten minuets. Its like someone dieing or something, I lived with friends for 10 years you know, it was such a big part of my life, and I know that sounds really sad but it started when I moved to the west end and now its over. I really will miss it. If mum gets through this week I am going to stop smoking which will be an incentive to vote. SO VOTE VOTE VOTE. I’m only kidding I wouldn’t badger you guys into voting for my lunges sake. It’s just something I’ve decided.

Nothing really interesting seems to happen in my life just now apart from my mum so I’ll get back to you guys if again I decide to leave the house.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

boarding_las
Posted: 23.54 Oct. 13, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Sad and desperate I know. But when most of your friends move away to go to uni and all your left with is some scary lesbian you never really liked and a best friend who would rather keep her dope dealer (Pervert) in the good books than her best friend, you would sit and cry too. Sorry for writing this on a comedy board I just had to get it off my chest not got a mum to talk to and my dad seems to think that I should need no more company than him and a picture of super man he walks about the house with.

boarding_las
Posted: 01.15 Oct. 14, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

did any one know that if you leave frozen yorkshire puddings out they turn into liquid! I didnt. now i have a sticky yellow discharge all over my kitchen. that'll teach me to try and be domestic.

PsychoDave
Posted: 09.10 Oct. 14, 2004

I think we all have a problem with a sticky yellow discharge at some time in our lives ........or is it just me?

Anthony Miller
Posted: 12.34 Oct. 14, 2004

Quote (boarding_las @ 17.51 Oct. 13, 2004)

Nothing really interesting seems to happen in my life just now

Never mind. You can always start a blog...?

Anthony Miller
Posted: 12.36 Oct. 14, 2004

Quote (boarding_las @ 01.15 Oct. 14, 2004)

did any one know that if you leave frozen yorkshire puddings out they turn into liquid! I didnt.

Batter that you learn it now.

gaz mackin'
Posted: 12.59 Oct. 14, 2004

Quote (boarding_las @ 01.15 Oct. 14, 2004)

did any one know that if you leave frozen yorkshire puddings out they turn into liquid! I didnt. now i have a sticky yellow discharge all over my kitchen. that'll teach me to try and be domestic.

I'm distraught to hear about this senseless waste of perfectly good Yorkshire Puddings. I could have eaten them if they weren't 900 hundred miles away and in the kichten of a person I don't know.

gaz mackin'
Posted: 13.06 Oct. 14, 2004

Quote (boarding_las @ 23.54 Oct. 13, 2004)

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Never in my life have I felt so lonely, Ever since I came back from the Edinburgh festival my best friend has barely spoken to me. When I phone she answers as if my phoning her is a big hassle. Then I start to think is this my fault am I that irritating, annoying or strange that even my best friend of 3 years no longer wants to know me. Another factor to this fall out is that her friend who I don’t get on with felt me up when he thought I was sleeping I just moved away and have never said anything to him cause I felt quite sorry for him. Now I wish I had said something but we don’t always do the right thing at the right time. Now she doesn’t want me in the same room as him in case I burst out in anger. She fell out with me because He Perved on Me. This has to be the most horrible thing I’ve ever experienced. I sometimes just sit and cry because I feel so lonely. Sad and desperate I know. But when most of your friends move away to go to uni and all your left with is some scary lesbian you never really liked and a best friend who would rather keep her dope dealer (Pervert) in the good books than her best friend, you would sit and cry too. Sorry for writing this on a comedy board I just had to get it off my chest not got a mum to talk to and my dad seems to think that I should need no more company than him and a picture of super man he walks about the house with.

Sorry to hear that by the way. Your friend could probably do with a good slap. Or a different dealer. Then the pervert is out of the loop.

This feels like a typical day on live journal.

Anthony Miller
Posted: 13.07 Oct. 14, 2004

Quote (gaz mackin' @ 12.59 Oct. 14, 2004)

Quote (boarding_las @ 01.15 Oct. 14, 2004)

did any one know that if you leave frozen yorkshire puddings out they turn into liquid! I didnt. now i have a sticky yellow discharge all over my kitchen. that'll teach me to try and be domestic.

I'm distraught to hear about this senseless waste of perfectly good Yorkshire Puddings. I could have eaten them if they weren't 900 hundred miles away and in the kichten of a person I don't know.

Lucky you have never worked in a kitchen. I have... and the cavaliar attitude to Yorkshire puddings was a virtual scandal.

gaz mackin'
Posted: 13.14 Oct. 14, 2004

I've never worked in a kitchen, but have worked on the periphery of a busy hotel's kitchen. And you're right sir, the attitude to most things, food or otherwsie, was fairly scandalous.

And yet I was still fool enough to eat the slop they served up eevry day for a year.

boarding_las
Posted: 14.49 Oct. 14, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Quote (Anthony Miller @ 12.36 Oct. 14, 2004)

Batter that you learn it now.

I laughed so hard at this i was a bit sick on my key board.

boarding_las
Posted: 20.29 Oct. 14, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Could endemol be any more stupid? Today at 7pm while sitting on a bus I received a hurried phone call telling me my mother had, had a fall and that I was to make an appointment at her GP’s for tomorrow morning, for her coming out of the house for the weekend. Don’t these people know that at this time the doctors will be closed? Also the hurried method of this phone call scared the shit out of me. I got home and phoned my dad who instructed me to call back endemol and find out what had happened.

The fall happened last night, so why couldn’t they find out her GP’s address and call them and make her an appointment after the fall happened, instead of calling me too late and scaring me. When I phoned back I spoke to a different person who told me that mum had fallen off of a stool and had seen the house doctor but wished to see her own GP but seemed to be ok. I just thought it was so insensitive to call up explain nothing apart from my mums had a fall and needs an appointment at the doctors.

I’m already on tender hooks right now with the nomination show coming up tonight, Last week I had a mental panic attack something I’ve never had before. I just hope everything goes well for her sake as well as mine. Hope you are all rooting for her tonight folks. Thanx. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx

boarding_las
Posted: 22.41 Oct. 14, 2004

( I will be in TV programme 'Kings of Comedy' E4/C4 Sunday-Thursday, my eighteen year old daughter Ashley will be writing the blog for me in my absence. Thanks Janey Godley)

Its over, this will be my last addition to this Blog. Mum has been evicted from the kings of comedy house and is now homeward bound. Well there we go thank you to all of you for your support through this rough time. At least now I no longer have to worry about it I suppose. I’ve had a brilliant time writing in this Blog and I am pleased that I was given the honour of sharing my life with all you guys and I’d also like to thank you all for the support you’ve given mum over the past fortnight. Thank you very much I’ve been Ashley and you have all been great. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Char
Posted: 22.48 Oct. 14, 2004

Im suprised Janey didnt punch that Russell Brand, he was SO bloody annoying!

Bet your looking forward to seeing your Mum boarding_las.

Grant
Posted: 23.04 Oct. 14, 2004

How the fuck? She was leading a couple of posts back.

What cock up happened this week?

It's really not worth the effort punching Russell.

jug
Posted: 01.26 Oct. 15, 2004

I wonder if there is a clause in the contract that forbids Janey telling all.

If not, the forums all yours gal .......................

of course you could always have a word with that wellknown Scottish publicist MacScliffud - then at least you'll get something out of it

Angie P
Posted: 10.53 Oct. 15, 2004

Ava's team got a landslide victory in the last gig before the final and she and Boothby ended up being top of the board. So Janey ended up having to fight for her right to stay.

Ava said she was going to save Janey but in the end she didn't and for reasons known only to the people who voted David Copperfield got more votes.

Still she looked relieved it was over.

janey godley
Posted: 11.37 Oct. 15, 2004

WHOOOAAYYY!!!!

I am SO relieved its over ...I actually just saw the tape and watched myself STARJUMP! on TV!

First I want to thank my beautiful daughter for keeping up the blog. I love her.

It became the Stan show so there was no more reason to stay on, they cut all the stuff I did and concentrated on watching Stan and Ava...fair play but I kept him sober for the week and fucked up the game play! heeeeee

Felt SO sorry for Ava as they showed her trying to get into bed with Andrew and Boothby, by God it was embarrassing, poor cow. Then to show both of them kick her out and fucking Boothby admit to preferring Andrew! Whooaa!

Amazing what a combination of vodka and boredom will do.

Ava shone like a star in the house and good on her.

Mick Miller is the nicest man on the face of the earth and the funniest but he doesn’t get to shine as Stan gets all the camera…everytime…and Mick is very intelligent and cultured!
Stan got his cock out and I thought I was going to throw up…Jesus …

There was absolutely no stimulation and your day revolved around a three minute gig…so you went mad!

I invented a slidey game where you ran and hopped onto a cushion and slid on the floor! It was all good till I fell and cracked my arm. Endemol did not have the painkillers I wanted (Anadin extra) so I went the whole of Wednesday night in pain, had I wanted more Vodka…it would have been delivered!

I have a big bruised elbow! But no alcohol embarrassment!

I loved playing the games and stuff but I worked for two weeks and got a good fee and left before it all went downhill. The slating it is getting in the ratings is a bit of a brassneck…but hey..who thought it would have worked?

Me ???

Not really but I am glad I did it and have total respect for all who remain.

Hope Boothby wins as he did get the most laughs and his night time rants are excellent…

Good luck to Ava, I hope they show the true her…its really amazing...and she deserves it.

Chortle
Group: Super Administrators
Posted: 11.56 Oct. 16, 2004

Unfortunately, we have had some system problems and lost the blog entries between September 2 and October 16. If we can resurrect them later, we will.

In the meantime, apologies to everyone keeping up with Janey's life... and to Janey herself, of course.

janey godley
Posted: 12.38 Oct. 16, 2004

No worries everyone!

I have copies of the blog right up until it crashed!

So it will soon be back up to date as soon as!

That will please a few people eh?

Pleases me no end I can tell you, I thought I was going to have a heart attack when it all crashed but the trusty Mr Fleming called me to tell me he had kept all the back ups!

I love that man. Well done him.

Will chat later...

thanks.
Janey

janey godley
Posted: 18.26 Oct. 16, 2004

well after the showing of KOC on TV last night and today I have had several phonecalls, all of them congratulating me on getting out at the right time...or voted out (thank God!)

I am well aware of the name calling and backstabbing so please lets not refer to it as I am determined NOT to give the 'comic' the press or repetitive name mention that is required to keep oneself in the press. Let it go..

Boothby had the best statement in the KOC house EVER!

He said "Whatever you say about anyone else, you are saying about yourself" I love him...really i do.

I have had amazing offers from TV land already and that makes me happy.
Also the other thing that makes me smile is....

I worked for 10 days and can now pay for my daughter to go through drama school for 3 years! HURRAAHHH!

Sometimes mothers have to do stuff....I did that.

I really dont regret it as it showed us all as we truly are.

Me talky and mad...Andrew intellegent and interesting and ....well you know the rest....

I am looking forward to reading and listening to music all week now.

PS- Thanks for all the supportive calls & emails. I know now...

Jonathan Creek
Posted: 20.07 Oct. 16, 2004

Boothby looked very supportive of you when he was talking out Ava out of voting for you...By the way how is your daughter? The one who wrote on here that she was sexually abused while you were in the house saying she felt the need to share it with us because she doesn't have any parents to talk to. Have you spent as much time concentrating on her as you have on this piece of piss? BTW the stuff about ignoring your child because you are thinking about black men was hilarious. No wonder she felt the need to post her problems on here.

boarding_las
Posted: 20.25 Oct. 16, 2004

Listen up mate, if you construe an 18 year old girl being felt up by a 15 year old boy and knocking him back as child abuse, then maybe it’s your mother who needs to pay more attention as clearly you have some problems.

The point I was making on the blog, was not that I was upset about being felt up, it was that my best friend was no longer talking to me due to the incident.

But clearly your mind dashed straight to the sex part and you made a little child abuse story up in your head as most perverted people would, and then using that against my mother is even worse.

If I was that upset about being felt up by a 15 year old boy I wouldn’t call it child abuse, I AM AN ADULT. Isn’t it strange even though you knew this you imagined me as a child being assaulted? There for showing that you would go to any length to put down my mother. You don’t even have the courage to reveal your true identity. My how sorry I feel for you.

Jonathan Creek
Posted: 20.29 Oct. 16, 2004

Well shut the fuck up then! Why apologise for burdening people with your problems? You said you pretended to be asleep and regret not saying anything about it. Do you have some kind of amnesia? You posted a disturbing story on here and I felt sorry for you. Please forgive me for thinking you were really upset and not realising you were just attention seeking. It must be hereditary. Save your sympathy for your fat mother who not only pissed off every comedian in the house but also every member of Endemol staff who could not wait to see the (very large) back of her.

BurnleyDan
Posted: 23.21 Oct. 16, 2004

Your whole point appears to be that the blog is pointless. To be honest most people who think that, and they are perfectly entitled to their opinion, do not feel the need to belittle every single thing the blogger (and the evidently lovely ashley) says. I do not know Janey Godley, i will stick my neck out some stupidly small degree and wager that neither do you. if you believe the blog is just attention seeking, dont read it.

I could continue with a personal attack on yourself, but i dont know you, and besides, i wont stoop to your level.

Dan

janey godley
Posted: 01.32 Oct. 17, 2004

Due to a computer technical fault this BLOG crashed and it has been re-assembled by Chortle...

Dear Steve at Chortle...THANKS for all the hard work of putting my blog back together,

Today is Sunday 17th October 1.25am!

I have had an amazing two weeks and feel that the whole experience has enriched my life no end.

I loved learning all about new ways to do comedy, working with Andrew was just so fulfilling and awesome, he really is the best dude I have ever met.

His knowledge of world affairs and politics was just breathtaking, as we had no stimulation in the house he became the man who kept me up to date with intelligent chat, he kept me entertained and very interested.

He is also extremely FUNNY!

Boothby is the gentleman of comedy, he is a funny genius and mad happy minstrel. He taught so much about sketch and thinking on your feet. He is also one of the most intelligent smart men I have ever met. He taught all about FREE U WIN TIN...and other amnesty issues.

Ava took every challenge on the chin and did good work. She really did work hard and was a great cook, she is honest and upfront and her comedy came on great in there.

Mick Miller was my favourite, he is just such a lovely man I cannot say enough about him and I hope he wins.

Stan was just funny and childish and interesting and very competitive.

David hardly spoke much was always up for any challenge that came to him and he or Boothby will win, due to their great versatility in performance ability.

Scott Capurro was robbed and I love him, he performed the best that night. I am ashamed at the way he was treated.

so there we have it, I loved the whole thing I got the money and I am glad to be out.

They were not showing much of any the stuff Mick and I were doing, so unless I am getting decent coverage there was no reason to stay.

Thanks for all who supported me through it.

janey godley
Posted: 13.12 Oct. 17, 2004

woke up this morning and smiled.

I am truly glad not to be going back in to the KOC house a few reasons...

I hate alcohol and have issues with it. My mum died because -had she been sober she would have fought off her nasty murderous boyfriend...maybe ??..I also was surrounded by alcohol as a child.

I remember my dad staggering around and it scared me.

When I worked in a bar it was cool because I could get away from it and sleep in my own bed, NOT beside drunk people like I had to do in KOC.

Now everyone there has a fucking RIGHT to drink, my deep insecurities should NEVER inhibit others from having a good time.It just brought out fears and deep seated shit in me to the fore.

I was starting to have nightmares and sleepwalking.

The amount of boozing increased, I even drank two bottles of beer when there ( my yearly quota gone in ten days!).

I did manage to keep Stan sober ( well he did it I just encouraged him) I was proud of him!

I am so excited as I now have LOADS of material to write about being in there. I tried it out last night at Glasgow Jongleurs and they loved it..it rocked.

The stories I have to tell are fun, also my book Handstands in the Dark got a good plug on TV.

Been years since I did a handstand.

Grant
Posted: 15.03 Oct. 17, 2004

Alcohol. It's the Endemol way.

< /cunts>

janey godley
Posted: 21.01 Oct. 17, 2004

been babysitting baby ABI all night, she is 15 months old and speaks Yemenish or perhaps Norweigan not sure but she has got the girly thing down to a tee!

She giggles at any man who chats to her and has perfected her girly laugh, I am stunned...

I sat with her mum who was sipping a cold ginger beer with ice chunks, ABI managed to hoist out an ice cube and lob it onto the keyboard of my computer. It quickly melted as we struggled to get it out...shit I am surprised my PC still works.

She pissed in my bath and then ignored me to sit with husband and beg his garlic bread off him....she is a girl.

I am desperately hoping she sleeps all night as I will be knackered at this rate.

Char
Posted: 22.23 Oct. 17, 2004

You could be in for a long night Janey. lol

Hope you manage to get a good nights sleep

Anthony Miller
Posted: 10.04 Oct. 18, 2004

Quote (janey godley @ 01.32 Oct. 17, 2004)

Ava took every challenge on the chin and did good work. She really did work hard and was a great cook, she is honest and upfront and her comedy came on great in there.

I particularly enjoyed the bit where she called you a bitch when you couldn't hear.

As to being honest and upfront ...well, bollocks!

No doubt it was their wicked editing but you came over as a right prude.

It's interesting that when you went in you were all well behaved and supressed your thoughts about each other but, of course, as time drags on no one under that level of stress can sustain that level of control. I've notice this watching Big Brother ...it usually takes about 2 weeks for the participants to drop their natural defences to the cameras and forget they're there.

It is simply impossible to not do or say something really stupid over an 8 week period.

Drama is a re-creation of real life with the boring bits edited out.

Big Brother IS real life with the sensational bits edited together.

Actually it's sort of nearer science fiction - real people with extreme personalities

in manufactured unreal situations.

Must admit to a sadistic fascination in watching Ava "I'm a very private person" Vidal trying to climb on top Andrew Maxwell and getting told to "fuck off you horny bitch".

Ms. Vidal: I don't understand why they want the men and women to sleep together.

Mr. Miller: Shall I draw you a picture?

martynsadler
Posted: 13.05 Oct. 18, 2004

Endemol presumably feel they have little choice about the way they edit the contestants, given that they are making a documentary for Channel 4 about one of the comics. They cannot be expected to put the investment at risk.

janey godley
Posted: 15.01 Oct. 18, 2004

I see KOC has a beautiful model and presenter on called Katie! She is there to be taught stand up, she made all the men smile today, that was cool! I laughed my ass off as I watched it. That should add new dynamics to the show, Goodness she is georgous and very smart.

I knew another person would be put in the house and kept mentioning this to the comics but they all laughed at the suggestion.

I felt that they would do it just as soon as everyone had established their place, this should be interesting...there is nothing more funny than to watch grown men peacock around a model on live tv.

Wonder if she will get pissed and do funny stuff?

Anthony Miller
Posted: 15.39 Oct. 18, 2004

Quote (janey godley @ 15.01 Oct. 18, 2004)

...there is nothing more funny than to watch grown men peacock around a model on live tv.

Yes, there is. Watching Ava in sexual predator mode.

I wonder when she's going to start talking about Christ. That should make the sparks fly...

Steve Bennett
Group: Super Administrators
Posted: 17.48 Oct. 18, 2004

Quote (martynsadler @ 13.05 Oct. 18, 2004)

Actually, that documentary is being made by a rival company. Endemol have no 'investment' in it.

Grant
Posted: 18.03 Oct. 18, 2004

Quote (Steve Bennett @ 17.48 Oct. 18, 2004)

Quote (martynsadler @ 13.05 Oct. 18, 2004)

Actually, that documentary is being made by a rival company. Endemol have no 'investment' in it.

Initial? Brighter? Endemol West?

Paulie Paul N.
Posted: 18.04 Oct. 18, 2004

Is this the Ava rumour or the Stan rumour? Me is confused...

janey godley
Posted: 18.33 Oct. 18, 2004

anyway more about me..baby Abi is now demanding a bath every two hours as she likes that and kicks up a holy fuss when you lift her out of the water.

BAFF' BAFF' - she keeps screaming and pointing at my kitchen sink. Well I think thats what she is asking for, so to keep the peace I have given her two baths today.

I hope the word BAFF and pointing at my kitchen sink does not mean "please can I have a drink?"

It really is lost in translation

I am confused and need a translator in house. She has filled three nappies since lunch time and the smell is awful. almost as bad as the KOC toilets.

I forgot how demanding wee babies are, she is currently wandering about my living room exhausted and crying but will NOT go for a sleep, she looks like a small angry drunk woman speaking Swahili.

The wee fat crossiant legs and baggy nappy are struggling and staggering to keep up with her twisty conquistador angry dance.

She just came over and hit me with her bottle and shouted "MUNK" i assume this means she wants milk...I was greeted by "YETH" when I asked her if she wanted "MILK".

I will let you into another baby secret if you actually say the word BED she fucking screams and bites you.

Ashley has yet again confirmed her desire NEVER to have babies till she can afford full time nanny.

Oh well...at least this week I am dealing with real small children not adult ones.

billdewar
Posted: 20.02 Oct. 18, 2004

Janey

Well done with the whole thing, you just weren't on screen enough, despite doing so well in the scoring. I can't be bothered watching it now that you're not in it. It was quite hard going when it started, but now it's even worse.

As a viewer, I think the format is basically dull and badly thought out. How stupid was it to expect those three acts sitting on the couch to piss on their fellow comedians? I take it this is why they brought in KK as the 'Nina Myskow' figure. Coupled with the vote fiasco, it makes it look like Endemol are making it up as they go along

Word on the street is that the winner has already been decided anyway (in keeping with all comedy-based competitions!! (except Mr P's!!) ).

Anyway, enjoy the cash, & I'll see you soon.

Bill

janey godley
Posted: 22.19 Oct. 18, 2004

thanks Bill. I had fun learnt new stuff and KK was not bad trust me I did not want to go back and would have punched her if she saved me! ( i told her this at the airport next morning!)

Stan needed to be kept in there ( not saying KK was told to do it)

I got really good work out of it and offers have been interesting...trust me!

Look forward to seeing you Mr Dewar..always a P !

janey godley
Posted: 15.55 Oct. 19, 2004

Have been sleeping like a hibernating racoon for days now. Was too tired to get up for baby Abi this morning and husband did it instead, she demanded food and "Nevemo" which is "Nemo" DVD. I was crashed out till 1pm, this is not good.

I have so much paperwork and bills to pay but I seem to just stay in and do nothing. That wee baby was hard work and drove me mad, I have no patience although I love her dearly, I realise I could NEVER go back to being a mother of a baby.

I was a good patient mummy as well; Ashley got lots of my time and fun, I now know how fit I was mentally and physically then, now I feel old and tired and quite unattractive (seeing my big ass on tv did not help).

Next week I intended to get back onto my feet, get all my housework and paperwork done.

Husband gave me a stern look as my phone bill and VISA bill landed on the door. How many fucking times do we need to go through this shit? I pay the bills I create and ask NO ONE for anything, ‘spose he can’t help being thrifty but he can learn to fucking smile and accept once in a while.
I feel nasty giving him a hard time, he really supported me going on KOC although he didn’t like the set up and hated the entire show (It was heavily edited and made me look nothing like the Janey everyone knows-he says)

I am going to be nice to him this week and stop picking fault with every movement he does.

Even his breathing annoyed me yesterday. I am a cranky cow!

Ashley has been on top of things and has cleaned her room out (thank God), I missed he laugh-you have no idea how much. I got a call from my brother in Shettleston ( Deemed worse place to live in Europe) its back in East End Glasgow, he told me his mates there thought I was rude to talk about getting a cat under my tits!

Can you believe in a place where three men were stabbed recently, where drugs and diet kill people each year, where my mother was murdered- that THEY were appalled at my RUDENESS! I spoke about a cat under my tits....whoooaaa!

I laughed.

jonmc2003
Posted: 13.25 Oct. 20, 2004

Laughed my ass off watching KOC last night.

Ava was enraged at Stan trying to get Kat to strip.Ava "Stan its not comedy getting her naked"

Stan " It was ok for me to get my cock out in the balloon dance though and getting all those points that saved you from eviction Ava, why is it ok for me to get naked but not her?"

CLASS Stan!

Hope Kat gets her kit off and goes latenight bedhopping. Bet she doesnt get kicked out of a bed.She is georgous and I fancy her.

Anyway it is not fun without you Godley.

Angie P
Posted: 13.53 Oct. 20, 2004

That incident was amusing but up to now the funniest bit of the whole thing has been that shot of the woman in the audience having to have a joke explained to her.

How can it not be fun without Janey? We never saw Janey nearly enough to have any impact whatsoever.

janey godley
Posted: 18.10 Oct. 20, 2004

thanks Angie...it was boring in there and I spent HEAPS of time with the big black man in me head...what fun we had.

I am so glad imagination is more important than knowledge!

I even have a name for him and occupationa nd everything...I think I even created my first fight with my imaginary man!

That how boring it became....oh yes and I won.

janey godley
Posted: 23.09 Oct. 20, 2004

Another day of babyminding. She is really the funneist wee creature I have seen in a while. This morning she woke up and staggered over to me sleepily and pulled out two of my eyelashes as a wake up call.]

me-"Hello eyelash plucking girl, you want food?"

baby Abi-"Yeth, yeth" ( nods head vigorously and shoves hard dolly head into my face) "Kith me babee"

I now have sore lip from hard dolly head and eyelash pain (which I have never felt before, it was a new sensation to have pain that I have never had before-eyelash pain)

After shovelling porridge into her wee fat round head, I escaped to go pay bills and do paperwork as I am seriously needing to catch up on.

I left her with Husband who she calls " Unkel daddy" which is really wierd. It was so good to get out into the big world, even if was just to pay bills and stand in the bank for a wee while.

I skipped to a pub and ate lunch at leisure, i felt really bad as husband was left with washing up, washing basket and baby Abi to look after.

Fuck 'em...I ate seafood and had no small Norweigan speaking child to steal from my plate.

Ashley was working for the agency and was a receptionist for the day!
She loved it but fell asleep as she got in tonight.

Ashley snoozed on the sofa as baby Abi slowly approached with her wee pincer fingers ready to do another eyelash pinch.

I had to drag her away as Ashley would have screamed at losing ONE eyelash!

Finally baby Abi's mum came and took her home.

The place seems very quiet and clean without her.....maybe I should have another baby?

NOOOoooooooo......

As Scott Cupurro said in KOC " Why do you have a womb? Are you going to have more children? No? Then go get gutted"

Heheheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee That made me smile.

janey godley
Posted: 17.10 Oct. 21, 2004

Here is the list of stuff I did on KOC but they did not show it...

1) Me running around with a plastic gun shooting all the comics and making them do dramatic 'deaths', then me on stage during the voting one night and shooting myself and Scott Cuprurro when we got low votes.

2) Getting Stan Boardman to throw a plastic wrapped up home made ball to me whilst I did 27 keepie ups and then lobbing perfectly into his palm 20 feet away!

3) Having the worst period pains and have Stan sit on my bed and stroke my hand saying "Is it 'womans troubles'? and me replying
" No Stan I have blood come out of my vagina, its called my period, people no longer call it womans troubles" His face was a picture!
Then to hear Scott shout " She has womans troubles but its OUR TROUBLE now!"

4) Doing a great funny sketch on the ladies night when Stan did his balloon dance, Andrew Maxwell and I developed a sketch called "Mens like that" where we dressed and sat like little children and me talking as a wee girl describing innocently what 'big ladies' do to get 'mens to like them' for example- "When I am a big ladies, i am gonna get sticky plastic to pull all my hairs of my fairy (points to vag) and legs and it makes ladies scream and cry but mens like that" The women in the audience gave us a standing cheer for that sketch...but then Stan got his cock out...so our sketch was edited.

5) I body painted loads of really cool tattoo's over Andrew's torso at 3am, it was really nice to get creative with my hands and the paintings were nice, Andrew loved it and called 'Management' to make sure they filmed and took shots of his body from all angles to show off the paintwork.

6) Stan and I playing cricket indoors and Stan falling on his arse over the sofa and me hitting Stan right in the balls with the ball.

7) I did a psychic reading with Stan and he ended up crying and was stunned at the stuff I said, I comforted him and we ended up talking earnestly about the influence of our deceased mothers. Stan was very innocent and touching during this conversation and it was good to see that sensitive side to him.

8) The night of the handstands!

9) My puppet have a funny conversation with Boothby's wee cat puppet.

10) The night Boothby and I swapped acts and we won top marks!

11) I invented a game where you ran and then hopped onto a cushion and slid along the floor...I eventually fell and cracked my elbow, and Stan shouted and exploded at me for being daft and told me off like I was 5 years old. He was so upset I had hurt myself and explained he hated his children falling as he felt he could not control or prevent them being hurt. This was a side to him no one really got to see.

12) Andrew and I staying in bed and me supplying him with tea as he explained the entire Western world politics and dispelling conspiracy theories and discussing the history of the Irish 'troubles'..it was immensly interesting. He really is very educated on his chosen subjects and a compelling orator.

13) Boothby explaining all about U WIN TIN and other Amnesty issues.

I am sure I have left stuff out but that was the best bits I enjoyed. Good luck to all who are still there and hope the best person wins.

Anthony Miller
Posted: 17.17 Oct. 21, 2004

Janey. There's just one real buring question according to my female aquaintances...

Why didn't you apply any make-up during the whole two weeks?

janey godley
Posted: 17.27 Oct. 21, 2004

Well Anthony, I am not big on make up and prefer just a minimal amount.

I am not a hooker I am a comic!

I did wear some lippy and a wee bit eyeliner.

I dont do mini skirted-eyelash batting-pouty pout stuff.

I know its nice to look good and women really 'should try' but I prefer to do comedy.

Weird I know!

Anthony Miller
Posted: 17.41 Oct. 21, 2004

I'm only asking what they asked me.

janey godley
Posted: 17.49 Oct. 21, 2004

cool! just answering you...!

Mind you today I have a big spot on my cheek that looks like a nipple, so I am considering make up to cover it over.

Maybe i should start doing the whole foundation and bright eyeshadow thing and see if it makes me sexier?

cutpurse
Posted: 18.08 Oct. 21, 2004

Quote (janey godley @ 17.27 Oct. 21, 2004)
I am not a hooker I am a comic!
I did wear some lippy and a wee bit eyeliner.
I dont do mini skirted-eyelash batting-pouty pout stuff.
I know its nice to look good and women really 'should try' but I prefer to do comedy.
Weird I know!

I think this is a good plan, then the desperate comics (there's always at least one) on the night will know which females are comics and which ones are fag hags out for a bit of comic rough. Very considerate I think.

janey godley
Posted: 18.40 Oct. 21, 2004

obviously I was being slightly sarcastic with Anthony, I do wear some make up and find absolutely nothing wrong with wearing make up and looking nice as a woman.

On KOC I tended to wear make up only for the live shows and nightly performances as during the days I dont wear any cosmetics just some moisturiser, i have really odd sensitive skin. I know as an older woman I should really wear more especially as I was on TV but to be honest I am too fucking lazy to stand there each day and put slap on!

It was more than enough to having to straighten my mental hair.

I wish I was younger and beautiful and skinny and slinky...but I am quite old fat and have blotchy skin..this is the truth.

I was never a young pretty eyecatching female ( this is NOT me trying to get sympathy shags or hugs trust me there is a point to this)

I was always small, average looking, dark and curvy.

I have been loved by a man since i was a teenager so therefore I never knew how to beguile or bewitch men, I always had one.

I know I should look beautiful for me...but I really cant be fucked...

I am sure if I needed to impress and enchant men I would lose two stone and make a real effort to look beautiful.

But I dont need to do that so therefore I am lazy with my self image I am sorry to say, but at least i am being honest about this.

I wish I did have the self determination to look good and tone up, but I dont. I gave up smoking for me and now feel this years big effort for me has been done.

Anyway I got a lovely compliment this year that stays with me.

My nephew Shawn who is seven told me " Aunty Janey when you smile and your eyes go crinkly it makes me feel safe inside and my heart feels big"

That is good enough for me.

cutpurse
Posted: 19.21 Oct. 21, 2004

I was being a little flippant and have an unhealthy fascination with fag hags (all kicked off by harrison comma L a few months ago).

Make up is over rated off the stage or in front of the camera. But essential in both situations because no ones perfect and the harsh lighting can’t be a little unflattering without it. Whoever you are.

However I didn’t notice your lack of make up just the lack of coverage of your stuff on K.O.C. (and lighting is my job)

Strange the things women notice about other women.

janey godley
Posted: 20.09 Oct. 21, 2004

thanks cutpurse for your comments there was a distinct lack of coverage on me that is why I wrote out stuff that happened but never got shown and somehow this all ended up about me not wearing make-up!

This is also the reason I jumped for joy when i realised I was not going back in. There is no good excuse for me to suffer being there if I was not being shown. My good trusted friends and people in the biz told me to leave as soon as possible as the show was getting slated and low ratings and as I was not even get any stage time (even when i got great points from the audience) I felt it was time to get outta there!

I did have a big problem with the small space and people drinking. I am not a good happy person around drunk people...too much bad scary memories to be honest.

That makes me sound like I was opposed to others drinking but Im not, others need to do what they want. its me with the problem.

All in all I am happy to be home and happy to be out as I now see the games being played on KOC.

Outatime
Posted: 21.33 Oct. 21, 2004

I was only watching it for you and Boothby Graffoe but they didn't seem to show any of either of you so I gave up.

janey godley
Posted: 23.39 Oct. 21, 2004

Well I am going to squeeze my spot. I am sorry to talk about this but it is HUGE! I wish I could take a pic and show you all.

Ashley has screamed at my blotchy spotty face and begged me to stop touching it. I wont.

Just read on the news that Prince Harry had a fight in London...good! Finally a Royal with a bit of attitude.

Good wee Bastard that he is. I like that the ginger one likes a big booze up and a bit of fisty cuffs. He will be like all 20yr olds and be up to the neck with sperm...unless his nanny is still sucking him off ( as all good Royal nannies did to their small charges).

Watched KOC tonight and was appalled at Mick and David being up for eviction. How awful both were very funny tonight.

Its all shite amd glad I have the cash and no longer have to go back to Bristol.

Rock on Mick Miller..I LOVE YA!

martynsadler
Posted: 23.53 Oct. 21, 2004

What was interesting about tonight's live Thursday night KOC show was that someone in the Channel 4 Comedy Forum chatroom predicted the result more than 30 hours before it happened, on Wednesday afternoon.

Funny that.

Can I predict that, as the KOC comedians are let out of the house from Thursday night to Sunday morning, we are likely to see a re-appearance by Jonathan Creek or one of the other pseudonyms in this very Chit Chat blog within the next couple of days?

oldgoldrich
Posted: 12.53 Oct. 22, 2004

Kings Of Comedy is a farce and is being rigged by the producers!!!!! Read the post entitled "Kings Of Comedy Improv Night" on the Channel 4 Comedy Forum to find out more!!!

This is just not fair on the comics giving up their time and the public who are paying to vote for no reason whatsoever. Even the voting terms and conditions state that votes can be ignored!

martynsadler
Posted: 13.35 Oct. 22, 2004

Even more interesting on the Channel 4 Forum is a vicious attack on Boothby posted this morning at the highly interesting time of 04.25:

http://community.channel4.com/eve....7007278

The highly vicious, factually inaccurate and probably libellous posting is headed: "Is Boothby a misogynist ?"

Am I alone in thinking that the style of the new posting on the C4 Forum is very similar indeed to the style of the Jonathan Creek postings on this here blog - and, in particular the extremely vicious Jonathan Creek postings removed from this here blog when a computer fault last Friday wiped everything on Janey's blog from the end of the Fringe to October 15th?

Nick P
Posted: 13.37 Oct. 22, 2004

The radiation from the television can give you cancer when it tries to read your brain waves too, y’know…

Anthony Miller
Posted: 13.43 Oct. 22, 2004

Quote (martynsadler @ 13.35 Oct. 22, 2004)

"Is Boothby a misogynist ?"

No. He's a cad.

I'm all for violence against women ...if they're asking for it.
If however, they make it clear that they don't enjoy having their face smashed in
I should restrain.

Verbal violence indeed?!?

Clearly none of these people have ever listened to Ava spouting off.

CUNTS

Anthony Miller
Posted: 13.44 Oct. 22, 2004

Quote (oldgoldrich @ 12.53 Oct. 22, 2004)

This is just not fair on the comics giving up their time

In my innocence I thought they traded their time for pieces of paper with metal in.

Grant
Posted: 13.52 Oct. 22, 2004

Quote (Anthony Miller @ 13.43 Oct. 22, 2004)

I'm all for violence against women ...if they're asking for it.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super-Troll!

Nice one, Barry White couldn't have done it better.

Anthony Miller
Posted: 14.29 Oct. 22, 2004

Quote (Grant @ 13.52 Oct. 22, 2004)

Quote (Anthony Miller @ 13.43 Oct. 22, 2004)

I'm all for violence against women ...if they're asking for it.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super-Troll!

A troll's reactions to being identified as a troll can vary widely depending on the forum in which the exchange takes place. Any person unjustly accused of being a troll may be hurt and express indignation. A troll will sometimes react with verbal abuse, raising the stakes with inflammatory remarks maligning the motivation of the accuser. If a person pursues his/her perceived enemy from site to site, that is most certainly a troll.

Trolling is often described as an online version of the breaching experiment, where social boundaries and rules of etiquette are broken. Self-proclaimed trolls often style themselves as Devil's Advocates or gadflies, challenging the dominant discourse and assumptions of the forum they are trolling in an attempt to subvert and introduce different ways of thinking. Detractors who value etiquette claim that true Devil's Advocates generally identify themselves as such for the sake of etiquette, whereas trolls often consider etiquette to be something worth trolling.

Trolls are sometimes caricatured as socially inept. This is often due to fundamental attribution error, as it is difficult to know the real traits of an individual solely from their online discourse. Indeed, since intentional trolls are alleged to knowingly flout social boundaries, it is difficult to typecast them as socially inept since they have arguably proven adept at their goal of inciting conflict.

janey godley
Posted: 15.13 Oct. 22, 2004

Some of the weird and funny stuff I recall from KOC.

lying in bed late and chatting quietly to Andrew (not in the same bed of course) and both of us giggling as we heard the footsteps of camera men clumping up and down behind the walls and false mirrors.

"What the fuck is that man wearing on his feet and why is walking like an evil giant at 3am?" asks Andrew.

Me-" I know its like the clumpy cloven hoofed devil is coming to get us in scary television land"

My sleep walking and waking up with my nose against the blackboard and chalk ( well i hope it was chalk) on my tongue...Jesus I must have been licking the blackboard!

Stan getting into an argument or debating something contentious and me singing loudly over the top of it or me saying CUNTY CUNT CUNTY CUNT really loudly so that it could not be broadcastable! That really annoyed people as Stan would often say really stupid things and my overbearing shouty words kept going. I could practically hear the producer shouting " Fucking shut up Janey"

I soaped over a mirror which I knew the camera was always shooting from in the kithcen area and was called to 'management' to clean it off!

We would go into toilets and take off microphones for conversations.

Directly Behind our shower area and the false wall -there was a toilet for the Endemol staff and when having a shower you could hear the staff chatting about the show! I heard one of the staff call me an "Annoying bastard who runs out of shot too much"

The backpassage door that leads into our living area often stuck and I had to be rescued a few times out of there. The 'management' would talk to you, then say goodbye and go off and often forget or the door mechanism failed to work and you got stuck in that hot wee room for sometimes up to 10 minutes...the door is soundproof! So you had to clatter and rattle up against the handle and shout for help!

They did not let you take any over the counter medication in and I needed Gaviscon during the night for my heartburn. It sometimes took them ages to get it into the backpassage and I had to drink it in front of the camera and then go back to bed. If I woke up again with more heartburn, I had to go through the whole proccess again! I mean I was never going to overdose on chalk????

They would give you time to order food and I only ever requested sushi I asked EVERY day for it as there was a Sainsburys that they got all the food from and I know they sell sushi but in the whole two weeks i was there they NEVER once got it.

All is well here in Glasgow and i get sushi every day!

janey godley
Posted: 02.11 Oct. 23, 2004

had a great gig at Jongleurs Edinburgh.

I am off to London next week have lots of interesting stuff to get excited about. Will reveal ALL as soon as I can.

TV people have been in touch and people ask what good did the KOC do for me, well it did raise my profile and I enjoyed the cash..(it must be a London thing but the amount of people south of the border who actually outright asked me how much i got was astounding!) We so dont talk money in Scotland , to ask someone that kind of question is very vulgar.
Suffice to say it was well worth it.

Was having a good laugh with comics backstage tonight giving them all the gossip. Loving it!

I got some news from the KOC housemates on the weekend breaks. Nice to catch up with mates.

Ashley is having fun in her new job working temp in different places each day is good for her.

I am very proud of her working hard and making her own cash.

She is writing a comedy play just now and I am so amazed at her talents, she really does do good stuff and it is very exciting watching it all come together.

I am having fun being with her, I am glad she has left school and is having a year out, I get to see her a lot more and she never ceases to amaze me.

we had lunch yesterday and we sat beside some cute men (according to Ashley).

She left and went back to work. I sat and ordered more coffee.

There was a gorgeous big black man at the next table who told me he loved my stuff I do on stage about the black man in my head !

I was slightly taken aback talking about it, but he thought it was hilarious after i explained it was not about liking black men because I assume they are 'big'...its just because I like the whole black skin sexy thing...he laughed and said "Yeah whatever!"

Was glad Ashley was away as she would have died with embarrasment.

Am back at Jongleurs Edinburgh Saturday night.

janey godley
Posted: 02.21 Oct. 24, 2004

I now have a big spot on my boob. It will join the fourteen others where I was bitten by insects that infested the KOC house, wee flying beasties that love to suck my boobies at night! ( yuk I know)

I need to go to car showroom tomorrow and get a new car as its that time when I have to upgrade coz of something to do with value depreciation or something like that…I don’t understand it but I love looking at cars.

I can’t drive although I own it due to tax reasons.

I am down in London during the week and need to book my usual hotel room in Earls Court. I have a few meetings to do.

I am looking forward to going down in December to perform Good Godley! at Soho Theatre, I am going to fly my daughter down for a couple of days to enjoy some Christmas shopping also.

Husband nearly vomited at the thought of me spending money on her flight and the words ‘Christmas shopping’ brought on a heat rash to his neck…without the help of bitey insects…just him have a wee stroke as usual when he hears me talk of spending. Fuck him!

I think if he had his way we would live in a wee cave, me gathering sticks to burn, killing rabbits for food and using the coal as eye shadow and writing materials. Rabbits fur would be clothing and sanitary goods could be old newspapers people have discarded.

My clothes could be made out of cutting up dead dogs skin.

Ashley could use Rabbits arses as handbags. Dead pigeons could be used as slip on shoes.

I hope he doesn’t ever read this as he may actually suggest this now he has witnessed my introduction of the idea. Weirdee tight wad man.

I despair for the poor car sales man when he suggests his cars may cost more than £30 new and for cash!

I swear he belongs in the 1800’s on account of how much he thinks things should cost. I bought lipstick last night at Tesco’s, he stood and shouted “Your lips are already red, why do you need to buy stuff that also make them red?”

I laughed and walked away. I am used to it, the woman beside me wasn’t and stared at him in disbelief. He turned to her and said “I am being honest, don’t buy make up you don’t need it”

She looked at him and spoke “Fuck off you strange man don’t tell me I don’t need make up”

I just looked at her and laughed, she laughed and my husband still pointed at make up and shook his head.

She walked past me and said “I am glad I am single”

I am sure she is and good luck to her.

“Your lips are lovely the colour they are” husband whispered and kissed me in the make up aisle. I blushed !

I don’t want to be single, he may be a tight fisted nutter but he is MY nutter.

BurnleyDan
Posted: 21.56 Oct. 24, 2004

you kids!

janey godley
Posted: 22.52 Oct. 24, 2004

My pc crashed and I had to copy all of my diary and address book onto a disc, which I did. The pc was cleaned out and re started from scratch.Then when I went to open the disc IT WAS NOT COPIED!

I cried a bit and screamed a bit and then shouted a lot.

SURELY if Gary Glitter's hard drive was exposed to reveal stuff that was deleted then MINE can be clean up to find my address book? Does anyone have 'Easy Recovery' or knows how to recover a PST file??

If so I would love the help, if not THEN do contact me with your email address if you were in regular contact PLEASE....>>

If I have not contacted you in a while then its because I no longer have your address...so email me eh?

janey godley
Posted: 14.08 Oct. 25, 2004

After much screaming the majority of the stuff lost has been recovered.

My PC is very sad and sorry (coz I kicked it twice, yes I know kicking inanaimate objects is daft but I was mad).

Husband has repaired it and all I have lost is my diary but trusty Mr Fleming had a copy!

I have lost all my flight details but BA have a copy but I have lost all my old emails and address. I have new ones but have lost old ones that no one has a copy of.

So there we have it.

Ashley had a sore throat and slept in beside me when she got up at 5am.

I dreamt about my mum this morning and in the dream I was begging her to stay back from her wee nasty boyfriend. I could see his flat across from our flat clearly, he was looking at her through the curtains and sneering at her. I was scared watching him, she was terryfied.

She told me that she can see Ashley lying there, I smiled and looked at my daughter lying there also, it should have been wierd that she could see 'out' of the dream on into my bed, but it wasnt really. It made sense in the dream, if you know what I mean.

I could hear her laugh and we chatted for ages.

Then I woke up crying.

I think my wee computer in my head has overloaded and exploded as well.

Or maybe I should just admit i am emotionally shattered by recalling my dead mother in my sleep.

Ashley told me she could hear me talking as I slept and when I awoke she asked who i was talking to.

I explained and she smiled and said "You looked really happy and excited as you spoke, you are lucky you get to see her again"

me-" No its not lucky Ashley -it hurts all over again knowing she is gone"

janey godley
Posted: 16.10 Oct. 26, 2004

Dear God John Peel is gone.

I loved that man, his adorable comfortable voice, his sense of music...everything. I am very sad today.

Paulie Paul N.
Posted: 16.22 Oct. 26, 2004

Quote (janey godley @ 16.10 Oct. 26, 2004)

Dear God John Peel is gone.

I loved that man, his adorable comfortable voice, his sense of music...everything. I am very sad today.

You aren't alone, hun. Unbelievable.

janey godley
Posted: 23.04 Oct. 26, 2004

Am sad about Mr Peel

I am off to London tomorrow and am currently writing a play that has to be pitched to someone on Friday as soon as my flight lands back in Glasgow.

I am shitting me pants as

ONE- I wasnt told to have it ready this early ( but I can)

TWO- The other people pitching for this contract are BAFTA Winning writers and a dude who has already written a very successful screenplay.

So here I am Glasgow housewife and professional swearer with funny hair and spots hoping to ward off the big boys from the big end of the playground!

We will see what happens.

Meanwhile I am back in london 1-3rd November to film TV stuff and I am going to BAFTA Film Premier of Bridget Jones New film!

Hurraahhh a good reason to buy shoes and a haircut.

Husband has already offered to cut hair for me WHAAAAAA!!!

No fucking chance...it will look like I attacked it with a pair of sharp wooden spoons.

He also reminded me I have nice frock in the wardobe and nice new lipstick so maybe I dont need to buy anything for my big night out?
FUCK OFF>>>>>>>>>>>>

I am going to shop like a nutter and nuy new stuff and lovely underwear (in case I pull whilst in London) (AM JOKING LIKE I COULD!) anyway i am taking the big black man in my head with me.he is a good date and if the film gets boring....

well....

janey godley
Posted: 15.24 Oct. 27, 2004

I got sent an angry email by some dude called "Alex".

He had written stuff on the C4 website about me and wanted to criticise me to "my face".

I was advised to ignore all negative postings and backstabbing but I felt this was personal.

He accused me of "trading on my past sexual abuse" and whingeing on about my sad childhood.

Also I was self obsessed and unfunny.

Ok here is my chance to reply to this-

I started talking about the child abuse this year in my show Good Godley!

I also addressed the "revenge and murder" issue that usually follows in child abuse cases.

I also addressed "Religion" and how it affects people who get angry enough to want to kill or seek revenge.

I knew this would cause people to balk at it and accuse me of "trading".

To be really honest after writing the book I felt it was ok to talk about abuse/murder/gangsters/ and stuff that the show Good Godley! contained.

I am amazed no one gets annoyed about me banging on and on about the semtex and the guns and stuff, I mean that was the biggest story in the show.

It seems free speech and exposing uncomfortable issues is a big thing during 2003/4 but if I talk about my past I am trading on abuse!

I watched a lot of shows during Edinburgh dealing with personal growth and past issues and a few actually got nominated for the Perrier.

I hasten to add that none of these shows I am talking about were written or performed by women. Is this a feminist issue?

I do know that Good Godley! Did get a lot of good reviews and press. I know that the show was controversial in so much that I admitted to a crime, the abuse was only part of the jigsaw of the story but it is the most recalled part of the show when any one wants to get a stab at me.

The person who abused me wanted me to shut up and stay quiet, I didn’t then and I wont now.

Would it be more acceptable to talk about being abused had I been a man? I don’t know??

I do know that I AM self obsessed that I admit and I hardly know a comic who is not. It’s that what separates us from the rest of humans!
Whether I am funny or not is objective.

I think people laughed when I talked about ‘eating Jesus’ ‘finding the guns’

‘Talking to mad Alsatian dogs’ they even smiled when I talked about the abuse.

After the show people spoke about their own demons and how it affected them. Men and women.

That made me proud of the show.

If my talking about my past life really bothered people, then I am sorry you feel that way.

I have been doing stand up ten years now, this was the first year of doing Good Godley!

I am not the ‘abused’ comic, I am Janey, Ashley’s mum-Jims daughter-Ann’s sister and Shaun’s favourite Aunty.

Let me have the right to talk about what I think makes people laugh and make me happy?

I may get it wrong but I do have a right to try.

Char
Posted: 21.22 Oct. 27, 2004

Good on you Janey. xx

janey godley
Posted: 22.11 Oct. 29, 2004

London was fun, got to meet old mates and came home today and pitched an idea of a play I am writing to the RSAMD in Glasgow. I loved the idea and its now up to them if they want me to write it for their exams. The students asked me loads of questions and as I had nothing real in hard copy to show them I talked a lot. How unusual!

I back in London on Monday filming for Granada television