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KERRY GODLIMAN

The charmingly straight-talking, quick-witted Kerry Godliman is one of the country’s best performers.  Both an incredibly talented comedian and a phenomenal actor, Kerry is best known for her appearances on  Mock The Week ,  Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Taskmaster, Hypothetical, Ultimate Worrier, The Jonathan Ross Show and  8 Out Of 10 Cats.  Also a regular on BBC Radio 4, Kerry has appearances on the esteemed  News Quiz, The Now Show  and  Just A Minute  as well as her own series  Kerry’s List  and starring in the hit series  The Wilson Save The World  alongside Marcus Brigstocke.  Kerry will also make her Royal Variety Performance debut this December.

Kerry’s acting talents have seen her receive critical acclaim with her best known for her roles in hit series  Derek ,  Bad Move, Save Me, Carter’s Get Rich, Call The Midwife, Mascots  as well as starring in the hit Netflix series  After Life  which was hugely popular on both sides of the pond, so the second eagerly awaited series will be released in 2020.  Kerry has also joined the cast of Adult Material , a new Channel 4 drama about the porn industry – it is expected to air later this year.

Kerry returns to her stand up roots embarking on a tour of the UK with  on her brand new stand-up show BOSH .

“A great comic who oozes personality”

“She may present herself as just one of the girls, but this young Londoner has clearly got the potential to really stand out”

Memory Lane, with Kerry Godliman

Memory Lane is a brand new podcast hosted by the brilliant Kerry Godliman about the stories behind old (and new) photos. Each week Kerry invites a new guest to bring in five photos from their life to talk about. Baby photos, birthday photos, school photos, Christmas photos… All great opportunities to have a look at the lives before each guest was famous as well as a great way to do a little snooping in the process. Produced by Dot Dot Dot, the podcast is available to download on the Entale app (where you can view the pictures) and also on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The series launches with episodes featuring comedian Romesh Ranganathan and actor Lennie James, with more to be announced!

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Kerry Godliman review – relatable laughs that get the job done

Blackheath Halls, London The After Life star invites us to join her as the butt of the joke in her clever, gag-filled observations on life in the internet age

K erry Godliman ’s show title, Bosh, is taken from a Greg Davies phrase on Channel 4’s Taskmaster : “Here comes Godliman, boshing along.” The idea is that the south Londoner is a practical person, brisky working things out and getting them done. But life gets in the way – which is where the comedy comes in. The brusque efficiencies of her mothering are contrasted with parenting books and their aspirational ideals. Teenage romance 1980s-style is celebrated contra later digital dating developments. Elsewhere, we find Godliman trying to book a holiday and discovering that, in the age of the internet, the process has been recast as a high-stakes race against time.

As those examples imply, it’s not a conceit that greatly distinguishes Godliman from the many other comics exaggerating their dismay at modern living. Rare is the middle-aged joker without a routine educating young people about life pre-mobile phones – although they don’t all have lines as good as Godliman’s one about flirting and aubergines. Happily, that’s one example among many memorable word-pictures – like the one about using the breathing hole in massage tables to practise being a nun. In tandem with the 48-year-old’s mouthy persona – forthright of opinion but always happy to chuck herself under the bus – this ensures that Godliman’s 70-minute tour de familiar horizon never feels secondhand.

The show’s rhythm adjusts for its final third, when the After Life star tells longer-forms tales of performing childbirth on Call the Midwife and losing her cat when moving house. Both prioritise eye-opening incident over comic structure; there are laughs along the way, but muted climaxes. Both sell Godliman herself as the butt of the joke – but only insofar as we all are. Her foibles (nostalgia for doilies; loving camping a bit too much) are no crazier than yours or mine, her perspectives always relatable – even when they’re as clever as her advice to the data-harvesting internet, that her erratic online behaviour is a deeply dubious guide to who she actually is. Her comedy may be more so – and if it reveals a recognisable comedy type, it does so with vigour, charm and plenty good gags.

Kerry Godliman is at Bloomsbury theatre, London , on 5 February, then touring .

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