Celebrating Funny Women Alumni: Tania Edwards – Total delusion with dreams of a curfew…
“Stop talking about yourselves – talk about me.” Relying on a tried and tested method of total delusion as she prepares Don’t Mention It for Edinburgh, Awards Alumni Coordinator Gemma Higgins talks to 2009 Funny Women Awards finalist Tania Edwards about oversharing, trout pouts, the surprising practicalities of gigging with a new baby and dreaming […]
Celebrating Funny Women Alumni: Jess Fostekew – A powerhouse of a professional twerp…
“I worked with Dawn French recently so I can die now and it would be fine.” Ahead of Hench, a bit more live Hoovering and in the midst of the one Brexit that’s actually funny right now, Awards Alumni Coordinator Gemma Higgins talks to 2010 Awards Finalist and “absolute powershed” Jess Fostekew about the vulnerability […]
The Lady Show
Tick another box on the list of ‘things that happen to women once a month’, as The Lady Show in Vancouver, Canada has just kicked off. The Lady Show is a comedy show with an all-female line-up. Importantly, they do it because they want to and not because they have to. And I imagine they […]
Drink, Shop, & Do comedy
This week was our first time running Time Of The Month at Drink, Shop & Do. If you missed it, where were you? We put the call out announcing the new venue a little while ago. We encouraged our funny ladies to get some tea and cake down their necks in prep for a packed evening […]
Time of the Month hits Brighton
Comedy is a funny thing, if you excuse the pun. Considering the ultimate result is to bring joy and laughter to others, it is incredible how painful, gut-wrenching and excruciating the creative process can be. Sometimes it feels like panning for gold – grabbing a bunch of promising looking stuff and gradually washing it away […]
Time Of The Month – new London venue
We love The Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon. It’s where we’ve put on quite a few of our Funny Women Awards heats, and it was – until recently – the venue for our Time Of The Month nights. We can only apologise to the people downstairs for all the stomping and raucous laughter. It’s not […]
