Congratulations Janey!
Janey Godley has won the inaugural Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow award just minutes after closing the International Comedy Festival today.
An independent panel, which included the likes of Sanjeev Kohli, Greg Hemphill, Elaine C Smith, and Karen Dunbar, considered nominations for the at the end of the March and submitted them to comedy legend Billy Connolly who made the final decision.The other nominees were Scott Agnew, Paul Black, Craig Hill, Kieran Hodgson and Susie McCabe.
The national treasure said: “Hello, I am Billy Connolly and I am here to congratulate the winners of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. Glasgow deserves to have a comedy festival - an international comedy festival. It’s the funniest town in the world bar none and it deserves to be at the top of the league.
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