Jen Ives is one of the funniest people on Twitter. Fact. She hosts a fab comedy night, 'Club Casual' and has written for Radio 4's 'Newsjack'.

Debra-Jane Appleby is a Funny Women award-winning comedian who co-hosts the Strong Female Leads podcast and has appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live, and as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

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This episode was streamed LIVE on Twitch on Wednesday 23rd September 2020.

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About our guests:

Claire Lim is a presenter, podcaster and host whose Twitch crew are known as the Wee Squad. She recently ran a two day event called 'WeeCon' where she interviewed panellists such as Armando Iannucci, raising money for the Cybersmile charity.

Ashley Storrie is a comedian, BBC Radio Scotland presenter and pickle eater, best known for her Harry Potter parody #tanyapotter, which was picked up by the national press and LadBible and is currently at over 24 million views.

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Andi Osho:

Andi is an actress, Funny Women Award-winning comedian and author. Andi has an inspiring series on YouTube called, 'Creativity Live Chat' and has conquered Hollywood with movies such as Shazam! and Lights Out and her debut novel, 'Asking For A Friend' is out next year.

Athena Kugblenu:

Athena is a comedian and writer. he is a member of the BBC Comedy Room 2019/20 and was awarded the BBC Felix Dexter Bursary for BAME up-and-coming comedy writers in 2020. She has written for Horrible Histories, Radio 4’s Dead Ringers, News Quiz, Newsjack, The Now Show and is a lead writer for multi cultural sketch show Sketchtopia. She also has a PRINCE 2 qualification!

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Lynne Parker from Funny Women also joins us for the chat.

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Vicki Pepperdine

Vicki is a British writer and actress who is perhaps best known at the moment for the darkly funny podcast 'Dear Joan and Jericha' with Julia Davis. She has appeared in over 50 TV shows, including Rev, Nighty Night, Miranda and Alan Partridge.

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Helen Lewis

Helen is a staff writer for 'The Atlantic' and author of 'Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights'. She has also written for many other publications including The Guardian and The Sunday Times.

Rosie Wilby

Rosie is a comedian, podcaster and author best known for her book, 'Is Monogamy Dead?' and her podcast, 'The Breakup Monologues'.

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Stevie Martin

Stevie is a writer, comedian and voiceover artist, and co-hosts the podcast 'Nobody Panic' with Tessa Coates as well as 'Might Delete Later' with her sister Gina.

Gina Martin

Gina is an activist, influencer and campaigner who successfully campaigned to make upskirting a criminal offence. She is also the author of, 'Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You'.

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Charlie George

Charlie is a writer and stand up comedian. She has been writing almost legibly without the help of Grammarly or a proper education since she was 16. Her work has appeared in the unanswered inboxes of many professionals, as well as on her poorly performing social media posts. Her favourite writers are Tao Lin, David Sedaris, Toni Morrison and a former housemate, who for legal reasons cannot be named, but whose book: Passive aggressive fridge notes, is available NOW in all shared living arrangements.

Emma Sidi

Emma Sidi is a comedian, actor and writer, who has popped up in comedy series such as Stath Lets Flats, King Gary, W1A and in Liam Williams's Pls Like as less-than-influential influencer Millipede. She has taken up three critically acclaimed solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe and has just release her new short La Princesa de Woking on Youtube. She is obsessed with the Real Housewives franchise, and while she used to be a true Real Housewives of New York devotee, she has recently found herself slightly preferring the Beverly Hills edition. 

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Elf Lyons

Elf is a comedian, clown, director and writer with a penchant for ballet! In the last few years Elf has been nominated for BEST SHOW at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, Fringe World Perth's Best Comedy Show and in 2018 Elf won Pick of the Fringe at the Adelaide Fringe, Australia.  

She has been featured in Vogue as one of the 'Top Names of Now', been the cover star of The Observer and Sunday Times Magazine and has written for many worldwide publications on subjects as diverse as polyamory and economics.

Lauren Pattison

Lauren was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival for her show Lady Muck. Prior to that she was a finalist in the 2016 BBC New Comedy Award and the 2015 Chortle Student Comedy Awards.

Other career highlights include supporting Katherine Ryan on tour and in April 2019, she began co-hosting the podcast Conversations Against Living Miserably with Aaron Gillies supported by Dave.

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Sam Baines

Samantha Baines is an award-winning comedian, actress and author. Samantha's acting credits include The Crown, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife and several BBC Comedies. Samantha is also a broadcaster and works regularly with BBC Radio stations including BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio London. Samantha's writing credits include The Guardian, Huffington Post, Time Out and Stylist. She is also an Ambassador for the British Tinnitus Association and is currently working on children's books.

Anna Morris

Anna Morris is an award-winning comedian, writer and actress. She has written and performed four critically acclaimed interactive one-woman comedy shows, including It's Got To Be Perfect, Bitchelors and Bombastic.

She has starred in in TV's Lee and Dean, The First Team, Outnumbered and Count Arthur Strong. She also wrote and starred in two episodes of ITV’s hit comedy entertainment show Bad Bridesmaid.

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Laura Edwards

Laura is a comedian, script writer, presenter and content creator, who has worked across both social media and traditonal media in radio and television. She began her radio presenting career in 2007 winning a Radio 1 competition and subsequently becoming the TV reviewer on Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac’s Radio 1 Sunday Show, before going on to work with Capital FM. In TV, Laura has worked with BBC Comedy, Comedy Central, and Disney as well as presenting and blogging for two shows on CBBC. She has accumulated over 1 million followers on TikTok and gained over 4.5 million views on her YouTube channel where she makes comedy blogs and sketches.

Ivy Paige

International Showgirl, Ivy Paige is a British Born Singer, Chanteuse, Comedian and Burlesque Star. She is acclaimed for her sultry singing voice, killer curves, lightening wit and signature flame red hair.  Ivy is an Edinburgh Fringe Favorite with an array of sold out shows under her sequinned corset and has appeared on television's 'The Voice'.

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Ayesha Hazarika is a Scottish broadcaster, tabloid journalist and political commentator, and former political adviser to senior Labour Party politicians. She is also 100% not Ian Botham.

Grainne Maguire is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, podcaster and the Irish female John Mulaney. She runs comedy writing workshops too- follow her on the interwebs to find out more!

And of course, Funny Women's Lynne Parker joins us in the studio for bants and www.funnywomen.com business!

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Pamela Adlon is an American writer, director and actress who created the hugely successful series 'Better Things' and is also well known for her impressive animation CV, having voiced characters for 'King Of The Hill' and 'Recess'. She co-stars with Pete Davidson in the upcoming Judd Apatow movie, 'The King Of Staten Island'

Celia Imrie is an English actress and author who is perhaps best known for her role in the late Victoria Wood's 'Acorn Antiques', as well as starring in 'Calendar Girls' and of course, having a top 40 hit with a track from the Mamma Mia movie, 'Mamma Mia! Here we go again'.

We are also joined by the lovely Kate Stone from Funny Women in the studio.

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Jason Manford is an English comedian, singer, television presenter, radio presenter, actor, quiz host, NHS volunteer and sometime hedgehog. He was previously a team captain on the Channel 4 panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2007 until 2010, and has presented numerous television shows for the BBC and ITV including Comedy Rocks (2010–2011), The One Show (2010), Show Me the Funny (2011), A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (2014) and Bigheads (2017). He also appeared on ‘The Masked Singer’ and beat professional singer, Katherine Jenkins, which is dead impressive.

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We cover all the hot topics, from: hot monkey sex, to nether region-numbing mum jeans and the lockdown sniff test! These ladies are bloody bonkers. Also joining us is Lynne Parker from Funny Women and stay tuned to the end for some comedy recommendations to keep you entertained until the next ep. I mean, we don’t want you to go hungry, do we? Enjoy!

A few notes on our guests:

Shirley & Shirley are Joanna Carolan and Pascale Wilson. These two childhood pals have shocked and awed many unsuspecting audiences for over a decade. They recently shocked themselves when they gave birth to baby boys thirteen days apart. They are without a doubt, the best Irish-Palestinian, British-Surinamese comedy duo on the circuit.

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Funny Women Variety Award Winner 2012 Sooz Kempner has taken seven solo hours to the Edinburgh Fringe and is one of the hosts of the 'Mystery On the Rocks' podcast. In 2019 she went viral with a Twitter thread about her time as a Christina Aguilera tribute act.

Harriet Braine is a Funny Women Award winning musical comedian, who mostly sings songs about dead people. She is also the host of the 'DesignSpark' podcast with Bec Hill and Dr Lucy Rogers, which takes a sideways look at technology.

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Julie Graham is a well-loved actress who has appeared in 'At Home With The Braithwaites', 'Doc Martin', 'The Bletchley Circle' and 'Penance'. She has just penned her first series, a YouTube drama called, 'Dun Breedin' and she recently got married. Congrats Julie!

Alison Newman is the co-creator of the British/American period drama, 'Harlots' as well as an accomplished actress whose credits include: 'Eastenders', The RSC and 'Footballers' Wives'. She also has an adorable dog who appears alongside her in 'Dun Breedin' and tries to steal her thunder.

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Kerry Godliman is a comedian, actress, radio performer, Funny Women alumnus and amateur embroiderer best known for her appearances in ‘Bad Move’ and ‘Derek’, who is currently appearing as ‘Lisa’ in season 2 of the fantastic ‘After Life’ on Netflix. Oh and btw she is NOT a fan of ‘The Sopranos’, ok?!!

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Rachel Creeger is an award-winning comedian, writer and director and the only practising Orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit. Although who knows how that'll pan out after the apocalypse... She's best known for her stand up shows "It's No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl" and "Hinayni!", her theatre shows "Staffroom" and "An Insomniac's Guide To Ambulances" and her regular slots on BBC London Radio. Rachel is resident host for established London comedy club Upstairs at the Adam and Eve. 

Sajeela Kershi is a critically acclaimed multi-award winning comedian/writer, actor/activist and promoter of comedy! But none of that matters as no one gives a shit about her unless they recognises her from the Telly! At present she is a Schrodinger's comedian, simultaneously dying and storming it in solitary confinement, where she continues to fight her addiction to QVC, plucking pesky beard hairs and compiling lists of people to kill, curse or marry!

For more info about Alexis, please visit www.thetimeialmost.com

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A few notes on our guest:

Stand-up comedian, writer and all-round survival expert Shazia Mirza is known for her appearances on topical panel shows as well as TV shows such as ‘Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls’ and ‘Celebs In Solitary’.

And of course, we also hear on this episode from Funny Women founder, Lynne Parker. Visit www.funnywomen.com for more information about their upcoming Awards.

@alexisstrum

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Resources:

Women’s Aid run a Live Chat Service, email service and Survivors’ Forum on their website at www.womensaid.org.uk. You can call the national domestic abuse helpline on 0808 2000 247 or go to refuge.org.uk

In an emergency always call 999, and if you can’t speak after calling 999 you can press 55 on a mobile phone to let the operator know it is an emergency and alert the police.

Women’s Aid also have information and advice for survivors about Covid-19 on their website from their expert direct services team.

For culturally specific services:

Shazia references the fantastic Southall Black Sisters: https://southallblacksisters.org.uk/

Also check out Imkaan, dedicated to addressing violence against Black and minoritized women and girls: https://www.imkaan.org.uk/

And Jewish Women’s Aid https://www.jwa.org.uk/

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We chat boxed wine, dogs upstaging us on conference calls and how superheroes and even Paw Patrol can help you through the apocalypse! And of course, Lynne Parker, founder and CEO of Funny Women joins us in the (virtual) studio to tell us about the digital Funny Women Awards which are open now.

A few notes on our guests:

• Sian Davies is a multi award winning comedian and the founder of Best In Class. She hopes the pandemic will end soon so that she doesn't have to do anymore DIY.
• Laura Smyth, is a Stand-Up comedian, English Teacher, Mother of 3, winner of the Funny Women Stage Award 2019.

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