Movie

Janey

86%Critics7 reviews

7.0average critics score, out of 1020241h 18m

BiographyDocumentary

Janey Godley takes center stage in John Archer's engaging and insightful documentary about the fearless and funny comic. Janey found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she re-voiced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's Covid briefings. "First I was cancelled, then I got cancer," Janey notes as she recalls being called out for racist historic tweets, apologizing and then trying to rebuild her career before receiving her diagnosis. That didn't stop her from going on tour and Archer interweaves fly-on-the-wall footage with interviews from people such as Jimmy Carr, Nicola Sturgeon, and Janey's daughter, Ashley, that reveal details of a difficult Glasgow childhood.

Directed by:

John Archer