Magazine | September 2010

Sketch and stand-up duo Thankless Child scoop Funny Women Awards title

21st September 2010

Fabulous duo Thankless Child have won this year’s Funny Women Awards. Freya Slipper and Liz Black fought off eleven other fantastic entrants to take the title. This is the first time a double-act have won in a year that contained more variety and character acts than ever before. Gemma Whelan took this year’s inaugural Variety Act title (as character Chastity Butterworth) while runners up stand up Julia Clark and musical act Rachel Parris took second and third place.

Many thanks to our photographer – Stephanie Thieullent.

Winners Thankless Child (Freya Slipper and Liz Black) with last year's winner Miss London (centre)

Runner…

10th September 2010

Please click on the link below to catch footage of the fantastic comics who have made it into the Funny Women Final. To catch them in all their five-minute glory, make sure you buy tickets for the 20th September.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FunnyWomen#p/u/9/2UPdOViDlQE

Sarah Hendrickx

“I’ve always wanted to perform. I had my daughter when I was 19, so the unsociable hours and travel involved wasn’t an option for me. My children are older now, so it’s my turn.

I manage an adult Asperger syndrome project and also my own autism/AS training business. I have written 5 books on AS and speak at conferences on this subject.

I have only been…

7th September 2010

What a way to spend a Monday evening. Yes, there may have been a Tube strike – calm down London, you do still have legs – but that didn’t stop the semi-finalists in this year’s Funny Women Awards knocking the collective socks off those happily ignoring TFL traumas in our little corner of Leicester Square. Lily Allen was there and everything. (Ok, so by ‘there’, we mean ‘in the same Square’, which may not actually constitute there but definitely still counts.)

Our hand-picked selection of Britain’s best, fresh comedy talent took to the Leicester Square Theatre stage in two back-to-back heats stuffed to the very brim with femal…

1st September 2010

Join us this Monday at Leicester Square Theatre

Deciding on who should make it through to the semi-finals has been both ”ha ha” hilarious and ”ha ha” hard. Never fear, the standard of the comics far exceeds the attempt at a feeble joke I’ve just made there. But bad puns aside, pouring over the heat tapes for the past three days, holed up on a sofa like daytime TV presenters, has indeed been just that. You’ve made us cry with laughter all over again. And cry because we had some very difficult decisions to make. And cry because we’re nearing the end of th…