Funny Women’s Digital Creative Strategist Mariana Feijó and Award’s Coordinator Carmen Mackay bring you Behind the Scenes of Funny Women, where no one has ever been before.
Think of it as a peak behind the curtain, into their staff room, where they curate interviews with comedians, spotlight live gigs, and guide you through a little bit of the history of comedy.
Hosts by Carmen Mackey & Mariana Feijó
Contributor Scarlett Kefford
Sound Mixing and Editing James Burns
Producer Mariana Feijó
Funny Women is the top Woman-led Comedy Community, amplifying voices from underrepresented genders in the industry, since 2002.
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Funny Women’s Digital Creative Strategist Mariana Feijó and Award’s Coordinator Carmen Mackay bring you Behind the Scenes of Funny Women, where no one has ever been before.
Think of it as a peak behind the curtain, into their staff room, where they curate interviews with comedians, spotlight live gigs, and guide you through a little bit of the history of comedy.
Hosts by Carmen Mackey & Mariana Feijó
Contributor Scarlett Kefford
Sound Mixing and Editing James Burns
Producer Mariana Feijó
Funny Women is the top Woman-led Comedy Community, amplifying voices from underrepresented genders in the industry, since 2002.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Scarlett Kefford sits down with Funny Women Awards 2021 finalist Abby Wambaugh to chat about entering the comedy industry as a non binary person and how that might affect their performance and material. Mariana Feijó chats to Justine Sless about her book Mistress of Mirth’s Comedy Tour, a tale of what goes on in those first open mics all comedians have to go through. Carmen Mackey tells us all about the British stand up comedy archive at the University of Kent.
Think of it as a peak behind the curtain, into their staff room where they curate interviews with comedians, spotlight live gigs, and tell you a little bit of the history of comedy.
Find out more about the British British Stand Up Comedy Archive on their website, and the Bishopsgate Institute Archives here.
Hosts Carmen Mackey & Mariana Feijó
Contributor Scarlett Kefford
Guests Abby Wambaugh & Justine Sless
Sound Mixing and Editing James Burns
Producer Mariana Feijó
Funny Women is the top Woman-led Comedy Community, amplifying voices from underrepresented genders in the industry, since 2002.
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Carmen Mackey sits down with Funny Women matron Jo Brand to chat about the comedy industry and how it’s changed throughout the years. With the Funny Women Awards 2022 open for registration, they go into the role of competitions in a career in comedy. Mental health is at the forefront of everyone’s minds after the long pandemic, and it’s no surprise the conversation also dips into it. All of it sprinkled with funny anecdotes from the iconic Jo Brand.
Hosts Carmen Mackey & Mariana Feijó
Sound Mixing and Editing James Burns
Producer Mariana Feijó
Funny Women is the top Woman-led Comedy Community, amplifying voices from underrepresented genders in the industry, since 2002.
Follow and support our team, contributors and guests on:
Carmen Mackey
IG: @carmenmackey_
Mariana Feijó
IG: @marianasbits
TT: @marianasbits
James Burns
IG: @burns.jpeg
T: @jamessburns
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Ivy Paige explores the world of online comedy content creation with comedian, writer and influencer Sophie McCartney, aka ‘Tired and Tested’, and winner of the 2020 Funny Women Awards Best Web Series in our extraordinary lockdown year. With over 25 million views for her comedy parody song “Smell of You” Sophie took the online world by storm as much to her own amazement as the public’s! From Tik Tok and Twitter to Instagram and Facebook Ivy and Sophie discuss how to make the most out of these platforms to create a comedy career online. Plus Funny Women founder Lynne Parker talks to Ivy about how social media helps to reach a global audience and the all new Funny Women heat Content Creator Award.
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Ivy Paige explores what it's like to be a professional comedy writer with Christine Rose, recipient of the 2020 Funny Women Best Comedy Writer Award with Comedy 50:50. Christine has written funny stuff for The BAFTA Film and Television Awards, The BRITS, The Royal Variety Show, Comic Relief, Live at The Apollo and put words into the mouths of Graham Norton, Frankie Boyle, Sara Pascoe, Jimmy Carr, Samuel L. Jackson and even Robert De Niro! And that’s literally the tip of a very big talent iceberg! Ivy and Christine discuss how to write for other people and what it really means to write jokes for a living. Plus Funny Women founder Lynne Parker talks to Ivy about the importance of being recognised by your industry peers.
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Ivy Paige talks to entertainment industry publicist, Mel Brown about what PR really is and the value of a good publicity campaign. When is the right time to get publicity and how does this help sell your show? Ivy also quizzes Mel about the Edinburgh Fringe and how she gets some of the most successful comedy acts onto front covers and in the press.
Plus Funny Women founder Lynne Parker is lured out of the gin cabinet to reminisce on her PR career before she created Funny Women.
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Ivy Paige talks to Drag Royalty and Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK Season one finalist, Divina De Campo. Known for her high soprano and 4-octave range, Divina has been featured on national television programs including The Voice, All Together Now and sold out tours both nationally and internationally. They discuss gender identity, politics of performance, drag culture, creating a performance persona and the reality of putting your work on television.
With some special insights from Funny Women founder Lynne Parker about professionalism, work ethic and career progression.
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Ivy Paige is taking a break between seasons but she stopped spring cleaning her boudoir long enough to talk to our very special Valentine’s Day guest, Tanyalee Davis. Joining us from the US, Tanyalee shares some romantic personal news to celebrate Valentine’s Day and talks about being ‘unstoppable’. She describes how she’s used TikTok to rekindle her love of live comedy and the importance of developing a social media profile. Plus, Lynne and Ivy share more tricks of the trade from behind the scenes of today’s entertainment industry.
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Ivy Paige goes “Behind The Scenes” for Funny Women with Elf Lyons, comedian, writer and theatre practitioner. Featured in Vogue as one of the ‘Top Names of Now’, Elf has gained a cult reputation as one of the most innovative performers on the UK comedy circuit. She has been nominated for Best Show in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, Fringe World Perth's Best Comedy Show, won Pick of the Fringe at the Adelaide Fringe, Australia in 2018 and was runner up in the 2013 Funny Women Awards. Plus Ivy and Lynne discuss the hot topic of getting an agent.
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Ivy Paige goes ‘Behind The Scenes’ for Funny Women with Christopher Green, multi-award winning performer and writer who has appeared all over the world, works for the biggest cultural institutions in the UK and has written a book about hypnotism. Chris is well known for alter egos Tina C and Ida Barr and was aptly described as ‘an entertainment maverick’ by The Guardian. Plus Ivy and Lynne talk about the pain and pleasure of taking part at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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