promoter. Funny Women helps women find their voice, promote them, and assists charities. During the 2019 Funny Women Awards Final, Funny Women announced...
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Laura Smyth (comedian) (category English women comedians)
(born 15 November 1981) is an English comedian and writer. She won the Funny Women award in 2019. Smyth was born on 15 November 1981 and was brought up...
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Jayde Adams (category English women comedians)
writer and opera singer from Bristol. She is the winner of the 2014 Funny Women Award. Born in Bedminster, Bristol, Adams attended her aunt's freestyle...
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Lara Ricote (category Mexican women comedians)
She has performed in both English and Spanish. In 2021, Ricote won the Funny Women Stage Award. At the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, she performed her...
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Gemma Whelan (category English women comedians)
how she approaches things. As a stand-up comedian, Whelan won the 2010 Funny Women Variety Award. She performed at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe with her show...
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Kemah Bob (category American queer women)
colour who are not cisgender men. In 2019 she was a finalist in the Funny Women awards. She maintains a drag king persona, Lil' Test Ease, who is a conservative...
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Katherine Ryan (category Canadian women comedians)
summer 2007, moving there permanently from January 2008. Ryan won the Funny Women award in 2008. Rachel Stubbings and Sara Pascoe were runners-up. Ryan...
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Diane Morgan (category English women comedians)
Empire New Act of the Year award in 2006, and as runner-up in the 2006 Funny Women Awards. Morgan and Joe Wilkinson later formed a sketch comedy duo called...
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are funny. Casey Stengel, that's a funny name. Robert Taylor is not funny. Cupcake is funny. Tomato is not funny. Cookie is funny. Cucumber is funny. Car...
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Desiree Burch (category American women comedians)
London to live with her boyfriend Samy Ouarkoub in 2014. She won the Funny Women title in 2015 having completed an arduous series of gigs around the UK...
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Ambika Mod (category English women comedians)
Test, retrieved 9 February 2024 "Stage Awards Semi-Finalists 2020". Women Funny Awards. Retrieved 11 February 2022. Mulkerrins, Jane (5 March 2022)....
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Bridget Christie (category English women comedians)
the Funny Women Awards that year, won by Zoe Lyons. She was described by the show's founder Lynne Parker as "one of the most influential funny women who...
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Emma Fryer (category English women comedians)
Neil Edmond. In 2005, she was a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny?, Funny Women and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year competitions. She has...
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Lorna Rose Treen (category English women comedians)
comedy under master clown Philippe Gaulier. In 2022, Treen won both the Funny Women Stage Award and Comedy Shorts Award. In 2023, she won Chortle's Best...
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Sara Pascoe (category English women comedians)
up comedy in 2007. In the following year, she was a runner-up in the Funny Women award in 2008 with Rachel Stubbings. Katherine Ryan won the award that...
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Cole's career in comedy was commemorated in the BBC documentary series Funny Women. In the same year, Cole's autobiography A Passionate Life was published...
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Ruth Bratt (category English women comedians)
the Mischief Theatre. Bratt was a runner-up in the 2005 edition of the Funny Women competition, which Sarah Adams had started in 2003. On TV, Bratt has...
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Thanyia Moore (category Black British women comedians)
Female Newcomer at the (UK) Black Comedy Awards. In 2018 she won the Funny Women contest. She has appeared on Mock the Week. As an actress, Moore had...
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Rachel Sennott (category 21st-century American women writers)
Archived from the original on May 6, 2020. Retrieved November 20, 2020. "8 Funny Women Interview Each Other In Speak Up". Refinery29. Archived from the original...
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Zoe Lyons (category English women comedians)
Best Newcomer, if.comedy Awards, 2007 Winner, Funny Women Awards, 2004 Finalist, 'So You Think You're Funny', 2004 "Pop Up Comic". Zoe Lyons. Retrieved...
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Sarah Millican (category English women comedians)
Talent New Comedy Award". BBC Press Office. Retrieved 10 February 2023. "Funny Women Awards". British Comedy Guide. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2022...
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Laura Checkley (category English women comedians)
and Manchester Comedy Festival. In 2011, they reached the final of The Funny Women Awards.[citation needed] On film, she appeared as Susan, the floor manager...
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Ria Lina (category British women television writers)
became aware of in adulthood. In 2003, Lina was a runner-up at the first Funny Women Awards. Lina has taken five shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. School...
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Joanne McNally (category Irish women comedians)
in June 2016. McNally was a semi finalist in So You Think You're Funny and Funny Women. She has performed at comedy festivals Vodafone Comedy Festival...
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Cally Beaton (category English women comedians)
(7 January 2019). "French author, 50, says women over 50 are too old to love". The Guardian. "Funny Women 22nd August 2019". 22 August 2019. "Countdown"...
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Rosie Jones (comedian) (category 21st-century English women writers)
National Film and Television School. Jones reached the final of the 2016 Funny Women Awards. She began writing for The Last Leg during their coverage of the...
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and Oates, while the two were included on Cosmopolitan's list of "13 Funny Women to Watch in 2014" in 2014. Gerry, Lisa M. (July 4, 2012). "A Chat with...
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(LAMDA) and worked as a nanny. Keyworth emerged as a runner-up at the 2015 Funny Women and their first show, Dark Horse, was nominated for best newcomer at...
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Morwenna Banks (category 20th-century English women writers)
talk funny women, taking on dramatic roles and Shush!". Radio Times. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2018. Yossman, K.J. (6 February 2023). "'Funny Woman'...
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Cristela Alonzo (category American women comedians)
Acts to Watch in 2014" by L.A. Weekly. She was also named one of "13 Funny Women to Watch in 2014" by Cosmopolitan. McAllen, Texas gave her the Key to...
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