{"id":698,"date":"2017-08-22T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?p=698"},"modified":"2017-08-22T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:22:05","slug":"histcompod-episode-15-lynne-parkers-funny-women-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/histcompod-episode-15-lynne-parkers-funny-women-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Histcompod Episode 15 &#8211; Lynne Parker&#8217;s Funny Women Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Episode 15 of A History of Comedy in Several Objects we have an exclusive interview with\u00a0Lynne Parker, the founder and the head of <a href=\"http:\/\/funnywomen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Women<\/a>. Lynne\u00a0discusses her experiences running Funny Women, the success stories, the controversial stories, and articulates points about feminism within stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne\u00a0selected as her &#8216;object&#8217; of the episode the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk\/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&amp;id=BSUCA\/FW\/1\/PRO\/4\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Funny Women Awards programme<\/a>, to demonstrate how far Funny Women has come since 2002.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_708\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/08\/Funny-Women-Awards-2016.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-708\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-708\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/08\/Funny-Women-Awards-2016-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/08\/Funny-Women-Awards-2016-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/08\/Funny-Women-Awards-2016-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/08\/Funny-Women-Awards-2016-768x1051.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/08\/Funny-Women-Awards-2016-624x854.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Programme for the final of the 2016 Funny Women Awards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can access this episode of \u2018A History of Comedy in Several Objects\u2019 via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/a-history-of-comedy-in-several-objects\/id1210414720\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/ahistoryofcomedypodcast\" target=\"_blank\">acast<\/a>. An image\u00a0of the programme is\u00a0available on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishstandupcomedyarchive\/albums\" target=\"_blank\">flickr site<\/a>, so do check it\u00a0out (in the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishstandupcomedyarchive\/albums\/72157680653167655\/with\/33166952770\/\" target=\"_blank\">History of Comedy in Several Objects<\/a>\u2018 album)!<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget to get involved! You can contact us via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:standup@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">standup@kent.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0or tweet us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistComPod\" target=\"_blank\">@histcompod<\/a>. You can also search the online catalogue for more information about the holdings of \u00a0the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to subscribe to the podcast, and please leave us a review on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Episode 15 of A History of Comedy in Several Objects we have an exclusive interview with\u00a0Lynne Parker, the founder and the head of Funny Women. Lynne\u00a0discusses her experiences running Funny Women, the success stories, the controversial stories, and articulates points about feminism within stand-up comedy. Lynne\u00a0selected as her &#8216;object&#8217; of the episode the 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140933,764,179478],"tags":[140933,179479,179480,140932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}