Magazine | March 2012

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Funny Women Challenge the Men!

30th March 2012

We believe that we’ve discovered something very special here at Funny Women. After our recent 10^th Anniversary Charity Challenge event where 10 women from all different walks of life performed comedy, we were fascinated by the fact that various men immediately came forward to volunteer themselves to a similar sort of fate! Never shirking a Challenge ourselves, we’ve decided that we’ll take on the men and stage another fantastic Challenge event later this year.

We really believe that business men could really gain from an understanding of women’s humour when it comes to communicating in the workplace, which is why our male Challengers will…

Funny Women Alumni in Musical Comedy Awards Final

29th March 2012

2010 Funny Women Awards runner up Rachel Parris and finalist Clare Lomas have won their way into the final of this year’s Musical Comedy Awards.

This is the annual showcase of the country's best emerging musical comedians. After 11 phenomenal shows at the Wilmington Arms in London’s Clerkenwell and a dead heat in votes for the final fifth place, the producers decided to put through six finalists to compete in the final showcase on Saturday April 7th at the Bloomsbury Theatre.

Rachel Parris was runner up to our winners Thankless Child in the 2010 Funny Women Awards. - “Rachel manages to combine the sugary sweetness of the Glee generation with …

29th March 2012

Quite a scary thought! 5,000 plus Guardian readers all under one roof, scurrying from event to event hosted by such literary luminaries as Polly Toynbee, Simon Hoggart and Jon Ronson. So, when I was invited to run a ‘How to be funny’ workshop at 11.15am on a sunny Sunday morning, as part of the Guardian Open Weekend the enormity of the undertaking didn’t sink in!

So faced with almost the broadest possible cross section of Guardian readership all in one room, each with the intent of ‘being funny’, this was a bit of a challenge! Aged from 11 to late 60s (I’m guessing here…) men, women, children and some i…

28th March 2012

Join the fabulously talented, and effortlessly pleasing Lara A King, the overall winner of last year's Funny Women Awards, as she launches her Sunday afternoon entertainment 'collective' Sunday Sundae.

"This is a mix of hilarious comedy, live music and yummy cupcakes!!" explains Lara. "Come and join the fun, relax and be entertained."

Lara is well placed to curate such an entertaining package with a previous career in tour management. The venue offers deals on booze, hot roast pork and musical bingo to make the whole proposition even more appealing!

"It's as Sunday should be. Stay for the evening and enjoy London's …

Rising to the Challenge - Wink and you won’t miss it!

27th March 2012

The brilliant people at WinkBall have captured the evening of our 10^th Anniversary Challenge beautifully. They have over 60 videos up on their site featuring interviews with the stars of the show including Kate Garraway, our wonderful Challengers, the Funny Women team and audience members. The event which challenged 10 women from all walks of life to perform stand up for the first time in aid of 10 different charities, took place on 8th March 2012, International Women's Day.

For a reminder of who our participating Challengers were, click HERE.

"What is Winkball?" we hear you cry. WinkBall is a consortium of over 300 journalists who document events acr…