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Funny Women 2009 Winner to star in BBC Three pilot
18th December 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The winner of the Funny Women Finals 2009, Miss London (aka Dionne Hughes), is to star in a new BBC Three pilot called Laughter Shock. The show, due to be screened in February of next year, will feature a mix of sketch and stand-up from 12 of the best new multicultural acts in the country, who are all making their debut television appearances.
Miss London, 20, has been busy filming the... -
Miss London, the ‘Miss Dynamite of Comedy’, wins Funny Women Final 2009
23rd September 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Satirical impressionist, and host of the Funny Women 2009 finals, Jan Ravens, wryly remarked at the start of the evening: “It’s not a competition of course, we don’t like to be competitive do we girls, competitive in a cooperative way perhaps…” No, of course we don’t, unless we’re enjoying a hearty, harmless game of lacrosse or netball, but to send up yet another stereotype of women, if this year’s finals...
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Charlotte Browne
Charlotte hails from the Georgian city of Bath, a beautiful but at times stifling place to grow up in. Tired of seeing the same old faces every time she went out (and, equally, they were probably a bit sick of seeing hers every Friday night too) she moved to London to pursue her dream of becoming a famous script writer. This goal is yet to be achieved but to distract herself from this failure she writes the occasional article for women's magazines, plays drums to vent rage and presents an irreverant and nonsensical show on hospital radio at The Royal London Hospital, where she gets to meet some lovely patients. Probably at her happiest dancing around the kitchen to Chic with a cleared surface to work with, she loves most genres of music but particularly stuff from the '70s as she reckons it was one of the most exciting and eclectic decades for music ever





