Janey was presented with the award on stage at the King’s Theatre at GICF’s Comedy Gala in 2023, with a video message sent from Sir Billy Connolly himself explaining why she was chosen as the winner.

Mourners have been paying their last respects to the comedian Janey Godley at her funeral in Glasgow. She died earlier this month aged 63 after receiving palliative treatment for terminal cancer.

Janey Godley's funeral is underway in Glasgow. The much-loved comedian died earlier this month in a hospice aged 63. Janey, best known for her Nicola Sturgeon parodies, announced the heartbreaking ...

Comedian Janey Godley has been given a colourful comedy send-off in Glasgow, with Scotland's former first minister Nicola Sturgeon among the mourners. The funeral at St Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow ...

THE hearse carrying the coffin of comedian Janey Godley will travel on a two-day “final tour” of Edinburgh and Glasgow ahead of her funeral. Godley, 63, died on November 2 after receivi… ...

The hearse carrying the coffin of comedian Janey Godley will travel on a two-day “final tour” of Edinburgh and Glasgow ahead of her funeral. Godley, 63, died on November 2nd after receiving ...

The hearse carrying the coffin of comedian Janey Godley will travel on a two-day “final tour” of Edinburgh and Glasgow ahead of her funeral.

Before that, though, Godley had a very different profession. Between the late-1970s and early-1990s, Godley ran a pub in Glasgow with her husband Sean Storrie and his family.

Now, her agent has confirmed her death, writing this afternoon: ‘Janey died peacefully in the wonderful Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow, surrounded by her loved ones.

Even though she found success later, Godley did not have an easy start to life. She was born into poverty, which was rife in 1960s Glasgow, to parents who both struggled with alcohol addictions.