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Misogyny in Comedy Survey – Take Part Now!

Please help us with this important industry survey. CRAFT, the Comedy Representation & Artform Trust, is supporting The Women & Equalities Committee’s inquiry into Misogyny in Comedy with an independent survey to gather evidence.

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Reviews and Recommendations

Reviews and Recommendations
Emilie Collins

Review : Angela by Charlotte Small. 

“A 24-year-old Girl Guide Leader, is in the midst of a decidedly erratic moment in her life. Amid chaos, delusion and a bid for freedom from her small-town life, she makes a deathly mistake…

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Stephanie Kemp

Review: Saturday Night Live UK

I joined SNL UK’s first live audience (Saturday 21st March) excited and cautiously optimistic. Excited because SNL since birth has been a benchmark for sketch comedy worldwide. 

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Features
Roxy JC

Review: Izzy Goessens’ Crumble

A Hilariously Raw Post-Mortem on Modern Heartbreak If you’ve ever found yourself doom-scrolling through your own sent folder at 3:00 AM, Izzy Goessens’ Crumble will feel like a personal attack in the best way possible. Taking the wreckage of a long-term breakup, she performs a high-energy “comedy autopsy” that is

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Tash Snaith

Review: Bed Boy, Celine Kuklowsky

French American comic Celine Kuklowsky (@celinekuk) is, in their own words, a gluten-and-lactose-free, socialist, with a sugar-baby, which they admit, is the epitome of everything the far-right are so angry about. Performing a WIP of their newest hour show Bed Boy at Top Secret Comedy club last night, Kuklowsky’s comedy

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Reviews and Recommendations
Al Stary

Review: The Big Comedy Conference

In a world where creative women are often freelance, networking events have become an essential part of life. But, before attending, I am always thinking, will it be a comfortable friendly space? Will the atmosphere feel safe and inclusive?  Case in point: The BGC Pro Big Comedy Conference is an

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Amy Fallon

Review: The Glitter Challenge at the Comedy Store London

Jaz Ampaw Farr may have been the one to announce that she had “Truth Tourettes” during the Funny Women Glitter Challenge at the Comedy Store last week. However, all nine Challengers, business moguls who were already titans of their industry who had never performed stand up comedy, dished up some raw honesty. 

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Lily Phillips

The reality of gigging with a baby…

At one of my last gigs before I had my daughter, the promoter said ‘don’t worry, when you have the baby you can just bring it to the gig, I’ll hold it in the green room while you’re onstage’.

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Kate Owen

Q&A: Sophia Wren, Princess Melancholy

After a sold-out run in Dublin Fringe and a hugely successful Edinburgh Fringe run (4 stars, The Scotsman), Irish comedian Sophia Wren is bringing her hit debut show ‘Princess Melancholy’ on Tour in Ireland.

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Kate Owen

Q&A: Samantha Baines, Actor and Broadcaster

Samantha is a deaf consumer expert on Rip Off Britain and currently plays Bonnie Baldridge on BBC’s Father Brown. We’re talking to her after Samantha launched her own luxury accessories brand Baines London, inspired by her difficult experience in hospital with her newborn daughter.

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Funny Women NextUp…Comedy Shorts Award

Are you a budding Director? Producer? Screenwriter? Are you collaborating with friends to make a funny video? Then we are looking for YOU!

If you have a short film or sketch that you think is hilarious, then enter your work for our Comedy Shorts Award to be in with a chance of winning some life-changing support and mentoring from comedy professionals.

WHAT KIND OF FILM ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

A 1- 6 minute film that can take the form of anything comical. It’s a great opportunity to show us your creative flair and have fun!

WHO CAN ENTER?

This award is open to all women filmmakers and content developers. The film must be an original narrative created, produced and devised by a woman, or women, although male cast and crew members are allowed.

ARE THERE ANY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR MY FILM?

Yes – we require all films to be 6 minutes or under, to be entirely original dialogue, to not feature brand logos and most importantly, to only use music with the written consent of the performer and/or publisher either personally or via the PRS system https://www.prsformusic.com/ .

WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH MY FILM?

We will broadcast selected entries on our Funny Women YouTube channel and social media (so keep an eye out) and the top 10 finalists’ films will also hosted on a dedicated Funny Women Comedy Shorts Awards page on our website. We will also broadcast the final 3 entries as part of the grand final night.

HOW IS IT JUDGED?

Films are judged for production, concept, delivery/performance, creativity, writing and overall funniness. The top 10 films are then viewed by an independent judging panel of top television and film industry professionals who will choose one overall winner and two runners up. The final three will be invited to attend the grand final in London on the 23rd September.

WHAT CAN I WIN?

2021 Funny Women Awards Prizes

The deadline for registration for the Comedy Shorts Award has passed.

If you need further information please contact us here