Janey Godley is a stand-up comedian, bestselling author, online blogger and journalist. She was born in 1961 and brought up in Shettleston, in the East End of Glasgow. Aged nineteen, she married into a Glasgow gangster family. For fourteen years, she and her husband ran a pub in the Calton area of Glasgow where she staged the first performances by comedian and magician Jerry Sadowitz. She later became a full-time stand-up comic herself, ran comedy clubs in Glasgow and regularly compered at clubs in Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool.