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Jenny Eclair

August 2023

  • MUST MENTION LOCATION IN ALL CAPTIONS, THANK YOU! Judith Holder photographed at the Leicester Square Theatre where she recorded an episode of her podcast with Jenny Eclair "Older and Wider". Judith Holder has a distinguished career in television having produced some of the funniest people in the business including Clive James, Billy Connolly, Dame Edna Everage, Victoria Wood and Lenny Henry. She has also written her own comedy pieces which she has performed on Woman’s Hour and Home Truths. She is the author of The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman and Grumpy Old Holidays.

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I came out of my shell when I retired. Now, I’m a podcast star at 67

    Distinguished but disillusioned, TV producer Judith Holder decided to stop work at 60. Now, she co-hosts a hit show with the comedian Jenny Eclair and has sold out a West End theatre

May 2022

  • Jenny Eclair in Drawers Off: The Big Naked Painting Challenge.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: amateur artists are in for a nude awakening

  • Woman gardening on patio with pots filled with tulips

    You can be a great gardener without lifting a finger! Just ask my friends on Twitter

    Jenny Eclair

September 2021

  • Jenny Eclair

    Jenny Eclair: Sixty! (FFS!) review – sexagenarian shtick from a joyous comic

    The comedian is on ebullient form in a gossipy touring show about entering one’s seventh decade

April 2021

  • Jenny Eclair with white hair and thick, dark rimmed glasses, smirking

    Sunday with Jenny Eclair: ‘I bathe first thing – I can't eat dirty'

    The comedian on hobbies taking over her life and missing hugs with her daughter

June 2020

  • Jenny Eclair: ‘It’s really hard to work out when you can afford to die.’

    The G2 interview
    Jenny Eclair: 'Menopause gave me incandescent rage. It was like a superpower'

    The first woman to win the UK’s biggest comedy prize has written a guide to the menopause. She discusses HRT, getting sacked and how much she liked her female comedy peers – until their fame eclipsed hers

November 2016

  • Jenny Eclair

    The funniest thing
    Jenny Eclair: ‘My father was hilarious – even when he was dying’

    From Frasier to farting, the first solo female Edinburgh comedy award-winner reveals what makes her laugh the most

July 2016

  • Phoebe Eclair-Powell

    What it means to be a woman: the writer finding answers with Miley and Patti

    Her debut, Wink, looked at modern masculinity. Now Phoebe Eclair-Powell is celebrating womanhood with her play-cum-gig Torch. She talks about her trio of new shows and why she couldn’t be a standup like her mum, Jenny Eclair

February 2016

  • Photograph of Jenny Eclair

    How I get ready
    How I get ready: Jenny Eclair

  • Chief judge Michael Rosen: I’m over the moon that it was possible to revive a funny books award!

    Children's books
    Search for the funniest children's books of the year – the Lollies shortlist

December 2015

  • Jack Black stiking a pose with hands outstretched.

    How I found my groove: celebrities' life-changing moments

    Becoming an astronaut, conquering comedy, overcoming stage fright to find Hollywood fame… Jack Black, Jenny Eclair, Dita Von Teese and seven more life changers tell Katie Forster about the time they dared to try something different

August 2014

  • Portrait of Chris Evans in a radio studio

    The Chris Evans Breakfast Show; Queens of Noise – Get It On; Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair – radio review

    Chris Evans, despite record audiences, is still refreshingly down to earth… just like Prince Harry, writes Miranda Sawyer

March 2014

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    EXPIRED Win top price tickets to see Grumpy Old Women on tour

    Jenny Eclair, writer and Perrier Award-winning comedian, will be joined by Susie Blake and actress and singer Kate Robbins in a brand new production of her show, Grumpy Old Women - Fifty Shades of Beige, which will tour from April. Guardian Extra members can win one of six pairs of top price tickets to see the show

August 2013

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    Amnesty's secret comedy podcast
    Edinburgh festival: Amnesty Secret Comedy Podcast episode 1, with Ed Byrne and Jenny Eclair

    Ed Byrne hosts the first of Amnesty's Secret Comedy Podcasts, recorded live at this year's Edinburgh festival with Jenny Eclair, Marcus Brigstocke and Gary Delaney

July 2013

  • Amnesty Edinburgh festival Secret Comedy Podcast

    Amnesty's secret comedy podcast
    Edinburgh festival: Amnesty Secret Comedy Podcast returns for 2013

    Amnesty's Secret Comedy Podcast is back, and will be coming your way from this year's Edinburgh festival. To whet your appetite, here are some of the best bits from 2012

March 2013

  • Jenny Eclair

    Ask a grown-up
    Ask a grown-up: why do women shave their armpits?

  • Jenny Eclair

    Radio review
    Bridget Christie Minds the Gap; Our Woman in Norton Tripton: radio review

August 2011

  • Amnesty TV
    Amnesty at the Edinburgh fringe: Stand Up for Freedom – video

    A sneak peek at Amnesty International's sold-out Edinburgh festival show, with Ed Byrne, Holly Walsh, David O'Doherty and Jenny Eclair

January 2011

  • Jane Shilling

    The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age by Jane Shilling – review

    Jenny Eclair finds echos of her own life in this moving memoir of a fiftysomething woman

June 2010

  • Michael Rosen

    How to have a happy family holiday

    From Michael Rosen to Jenny Eclair, writers share their tips, based on experiences past and present

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