Magazine | April 2012

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It's Raining Men

30th April 2012

Along with the apocalyptic rain and the double dip recession, we’re all looking for a bit of a lift in the face of austerity. Having a few men around was bound to liven things up!

Funny Women has always had the support of some brilliant men – our design team at N9 Design in Plymouth is all male and the current production team have wonderfully supportive husbands and boyfriends, ‘HABS’, who help at events and provide broad shoulders to cry on when the going gets tough.

So, it has come about organically that we should start to include a few men in the performance mix as well. Our most recent London Nights showcase was put together…

30th April 2012

The Funny Women Awards braved the wind and torrential rain on Saturday night and headed to the coast for our Brighton heat at the Caroline of Brunswick.

Short and Girlie’s own Ali Adolph was our fine host for the evening, bringing with her a very professional electronic voting system to poll the willing Brighton audience. Thankfully, the question of “Are you having fun yet?” received a healthy percentage for “Yes.” Obviously the evening was in very safe hands.

Ali welcomed the lovely acts onto the stage with varying styles of clapping, including the “flamenco” and the “Russian.” The hilarious Mel Moon del…

30th April 2012

Funny Women founder and executive producer, Lynne Parker, has joined the ranks of over 9,000 bloggers who write for The Huffington Post.

The Huffington Post was founded by Arianna Huffington in May 2005, It now has an active community, with over one million comments made on the site each month. Prior to The Huffington Post, Huffington hosted a website called Ariannaonline.com. Her first foray into the Internet was a website called Resignation.com, which called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton and was a rallying place for conservatives opposing Clinton.

The Huffington Post UK launched in July 2011 and a Fren…

30th April 2012

We asked Cathey Briars, one of our new tribe of Funny Mummies based in Liverpool, whose own very funny website can be found at www.myfunnymummy.org to pen a few words to introduce herself. Here's what she has to say:

"One woman. One baby. One blog. No idea.

"My Funny Mummy is written by me –a mind blowingly hilarious, stonkingly intelligent and unfeasibly attractive manifestation of all things magical and modest.

"I’m 28. I worry about whether I’ll make 29.

"I could tell you the name of my first goldfish or that I am obsessed with picking chunks of hard skin off my feet, but you don’t care abo…

30th April 2012

It seems our favorite seaside town is fast becoming our second home. After a successful Brighton Awards heat on Saturday, we’re back again this coming weekend on Sunday 6^th May for the Brighton Festival Fringe 2012 where some special Funny Women events are taking place.

We’re excited to once again be returning to the Brighton Festival Fringe in which Funny Women has proved a popular choice for Festival goers in the past. We’ll be holding an afternoon workshop and topping it off with a bumper showcase in the evening.

Our celebrations kick off with an Introductory workshop at 3.00pm. This is in support of local charity Rise which supports women, children…