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Janey Godley is a stand-up comedian and raconteur,
born in Glasgow, Scotland.

For 14 years, she ran a public house in the tough
East End of Glasgow where she staged the first
performances by comedian and magician Jerry
Sadowitz. She later ran comedy clubs in Glasgow
before becoming a full-time stand-up herself,
noted for her totally unscripted 60-minute comedy
shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She also
made multiple appearances at the Glastonbury
Festival, after being recommended by 'father of
alternative comedy' Malcolm Hardee.

Her book "Handstands in the Dark" - the
autobiography of her life before she entered
showbusiness - was edited by John Fleming and
published June 2005 in the United Kingdom|UK and
Ireland by Ebury Press, a division of Random
House. It told the story of her tough pre-showbiz
life, her sexual abuse as a child, the murder of
her mother, Glasgow's heroin 'plague' of the 1980s
and her life in a world of gangsters.

Godley's non-humorous one-woman play "Point of
Yes" about Glasgow's heroin problem in the 1980s
was premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in
August 2003 and a re-titled version "Smack - The
Point of Yes" was staged at the Soho Theatre in
the West End of London in June 2005.