Janey Godley - The C Bomb

In this episode, Janey does what she's always done: turning her own dark and difficult experiences into laugher, as she paints a vivid picture of life in the East End of Glasgow in the 60s, and recounts a childhood steeped in poverty and abuse. As she faces her own mortality, she and daughter Ashley Storrie talk, laugh and cry as they unpick some of the experiences she shares onstage.

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Then, just months late

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Then, just months later - the hand grenade of a cancer diagnosis forced her to start fighting for her life.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

And as a result of this insight, she's more hilarious and compelling onstage than ever.

Janey's experienced a life of extremes but has come out the other side with rare insight, still able to make light of all its trials and tribulations in her signature dark and uncompromising style.

Recorded live in front of an audience in her hometown, Glasgow.

This show was first broadcast in June 2023, as Janey faced a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Last week, Janey revealed she is now receiving end-of-life care.

This is another chance to hear Janey's powerful personal story of strength and survival, all told in her brutally honest, brutally funny signature style.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

As she now faces end-of-life care, another chance to hear Janey's brutally funny story.

As Janey's now receiving end of life care, this is another chance to hear her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming. Stand-up at its very best.

Janey doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best.

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Janey Godley doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best.

In this episode, we hear how Janey became an unlikely teen bride for a shy autistic 16 year-old who dressed like insurance salesman, and how a mixed marriage that seemed doomed before it even began has lasted for over 43 years. Oh, and there's that time they met Prince.

With added insight from Janey's daughter Ashley Storrie, who helps her mum remember the stories of their life together with humour and love.

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Then, just months later, the hand grenade of a cancer diagnosis forced her to start fighting for her life.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not `fine`, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

And as a result of this insight, she's more hilarious and compelling onstage than ever.

Janey's experienced a life of extremes but has come out the other side with rare insight, still able to make light of all its trials and tribulations in her signature dark and uncompromising style.

Recorded live in front of an audience in her hometown, Glasgow.

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

In this episode, we hear how Janey became an unlikely teen bride for a shy autistic 16 year-old who dressed like insurance salesman, and how a mixed marriage that seemed doomed before it even began, has lasted for over 43 years. Oh, and there's that time they met Prince.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

Janey doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life-affirming stand-up at its very best.

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Janey Godley doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best.

In this episode Janey tells stories akin to the Wild West, in the East End of Glasgow. She and her family go from the perfectly chaotic life of publicans and private schools, to runaways clutching their possessions in black bin bags.

Since Janey's comedy career began, she's exposed, on stage, many painful traumas from her life - from childhood neglect and sexual abuse, to marrying into a gangster family who eventually turned on her, and even the murder of her mother - with a seeming lack of sentimentality and the blackest of humour.

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Then, just months late

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Then, just months later - the hand grenade of a cancer diagnosis forced her to start fighting for her life.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she's not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

And as a result of this insight, she's more hilarious and compelling onstage than ever.

Janey's experienced a life of extremes but has come out the other side with rare insight, still able to make light of all its trials and tribulations in her signature dark and uncompromising style.

Recorded live in front of an audience in her hometown, Glasgow.

In this episode Janey tells stories akin to the wild west, in the east end of Glasgow. She and her family go from the perfectly chaotic life of publicans and private schools, to runaways clutching thier possessions in black bin bags.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

Janey doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best.

[LISTEN NOW]

Janey Godley doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best.

In this last episode of the series, Janey confronts her terminal diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and jokes about how she copes, how the people around her cope, and what she thinks her legacy might be. She tells a fascinating story about her mother and friends around the kitchen table singing, and there's a bolt of comedy lightning that's very fitting.

Since Janey's comedy career began, she's exposed, on stage, many painful traumas from her life - from childhood neglect and sexual abuse, to marrying into a gangster family who eventually turned on her, and even the murder of her mother - with a seeming lack of sentimentality and the blackest of humour.

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Then, just months later... the hand grenade of a cancer diagnosis forced her to start fighting for her life.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not `fine`, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

And as a result of this insight, she's more hilarious and compelling onstage than ever.

Recorded live in front of an audience in her hometown, Glasgow.

Relentlessly authentic, she's also had to face up to her own mistakes - taking responsibility and apologising both publicly and onstage, as well as sharing the shame of being ‘cancelled' and the very dark place that took her to.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

This show was first broadcast in June 2023, as Janey faced a terminal cancer diagnosis. Janey recently revealed she has now ceased all treatment, and has moved to a hospice where she is receiving end-of-life care.

This is another chance to hear Janey's powerful personal story of strength and survival, all told in her brutally honest, brutally funny signature style.

Janey Godley doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life-affirming stand-up at its very best.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not 'fine', and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

As she now faces end-of-life care, another chance to hear Janey's brutally funny story.

As Janey has revealed she is now receiving end-of-life care, another chance to hear her fearlessly and hilariously tell her own story, with the help of daughter Ashley Storrie.

Now, after finally admitting that after everything she's been through in life, maybe she‘s not “fine ?, and with a terminal diagnosis, she's submitted to the ultimate ‘C bomb' for many men and women of her generation - counselling.

Janey doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life-affirming stand-up at its very best.

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Despite her diagnosis of terminal cancer in 2021, Janey's defiantly not dead yet, and as hilarious as ever, even in the face of online haters who seem to think she's not dying quickly enough.

In this mix of stand-up and chat, Janey and her daughter and fellow comedian Ashley talk about why having cancer is like having an extramarital affair and what it's like to be told you're dying, and she takes to the stage to tell tales of loudmouths in hospital wards and the unlikely benefits of chemotherapy!

Janey shared her extraordinary life story in the first series - exposing all the abuse, poverty, and trauma she'd experienced in her trademark darkly comic style.

Now, with death chasing her down like a runaway bus, she's still compelled to get up onstage and fearlessly poke fun at every escapade, encounter and event she's experienced on her own journey with cancer, and make sure she goes out in the same way she's lived - with nothing left unsaid.

Recorded live in front of an audience in her hometown, Glasgow.

Living in limbo, cancer scan to scan, Janey's still utterly fearless and darkly hilarious.

As she lives in limbo between life and death, Janey shares her polemical take on living with terminal cancer, mining every moment for comedy gold with daughter Ashley by her side.

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Trying her best to live in the present and working as hard as ever, Janey is compelled to share the strange, colourful, almost mythical world of her past. With stories of stealing coal, copper wires and playing on train tracks, and the poignant reason she's taken up a challenging new hobby in the limited time she has left.

Reflecting on the past with honesty, vulnerability and empathy for those who let her down, she continues to find humour and insight in both the darkness and the ridiculous.

A mix of stories told onstage to a hometown audience, and candid conversations with her daughter Ashley Storrie, recorded in the living room of their home in Glasgow.

Featuring Ashley Storrie.

Outrageous stories from the past and why Janey is driven to work till she literally drops.

Despite having a life-limiting disease, the work ethic forged out of childhood poverty and shame still has its grip on Janey, and the past lives on through her hilarious tales.

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Facing her own mortality, Janey finds herself reflecting on motherhood and how the pressures on women have changed.

She also speaks honestly about dealing with a terminal diagnosis within her relationship, but is challenged on claims of marital harmony by daughter Ashley.

However as she confesses to some of the mistakes she feels she made as a mother, she is met with compassion and understanding.

Also in this episode, as an atheist, she wonders how things might go at the pearly gates if she's been wrong this whole time - and explains how George Clooney saved the day.

Reflecting on the past with honesty, vulnerability and empathy for those who let her down, she continues to find humour and insight in both the darkness and the ridiculous.

A mix of stories told onstage to a hometown audience, and candid conversations with her daughter Ashely Storrie, recorded in the living room of the home they share.

Featuring Ashley Storrie

Janey reflects on key relationships and regrets, and ponders her pearly gate prospects.

Facing mortality, Janey ponders her chances at the pearly gates, reflects on motherhood, and discovers why her marriage might have put daughter Ashley off relationships forever.

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Janey knows she's got a big mouth – and sometimes that's a great thing. She can talk to anyone, and often makes celebrity mates without even knowing who they are! But it's also got her into trouble on many occasions.

In this episode, she tells us all about making friends and enemies - and the Hollywood star she's making a surprise gift!

Things also take a surprising turn as Janey decides in the spur of the moment to make a big decision, and say goodbye to something that's been a massive part of her life for years, but which has now become a toxic influence that needs to go.

Reflecting with rare candour on her life, as she continues to live with a terminal diagnosis, she still finds humour and insight in both the darkness and the ridiculous.

A mix of stories told onstage to a hometown audience, and intimate conversations with her daughter Ashely Storrie, recorded in the living room of the home they share.

Featuring Ashley Storrie

Janey makes friends in high places, and too many enemies to count - then says goodbye.

Janey doesn't know how long she's got left, so she's telling ALL the jokes!

Good at making famous friends – but even better at collecting anonymous enemies, Janey decides her life truly is too short for conflict and takes drastic action.

[LISTEN NOW]

Janey knows she's got a big mouth – and sometimes that's a great thing. She can talk to anyone, and often makes celebrity mates without even knowing who they are! But it's also got her into trouble on many occasions.

In this episode, she tells us all about making friends and enemies - and the Hollywood star she's making a surprise gift!

Things also take a surprising turn as Janey decides in the spur of the moment to make a big decision, and say goodbye to something that's been a massive part of her life for years, but which has now become a toxic influence that needs to go.

Reflecting with rare candour on her life, as she continues to live with a terminal diagnosis, she still finds humour and insight in both the darkness and the ridiculous.

A mix of stories told onstage to a hometown audience, and intimate conversations with her daughter Ashely Storrie, recorded in the living room of the home they share.

Featuring Ashley Storrie

Janey makes friends in high places, and too many enemies to count - then says goodbye.

Good at making famous friends – but even better at collecting anonymous enemies, Janey decides her life truly is too short for conflict and takes drastic action.

[LISTEN NOW]