I’m Joanna Neary, I do comedy and art. I have three different entries on IMDB (International Movie Database) but they are all me.

For my comedy shows I write scripts, do stand-up and play between 6 and 15 characters in a show, each one ad-libbing, and usually different every time I do them. It means I never get bored and I love finding new jokes and funny bits, it keeps me interested.

I often do character dance routines and I love to do things that are a bit unique to me… Like heckle myself with the smell of egg and monitor the audience response on a fund-o-meter, shaped like a miserable cat with a hat on that looks like a church.

I also have a podcast called Wife On Earth, which stars my Celia Brief Encounters-inspired housewife character Celia Jesson, and I proudly a part of The Cosmic Shambles Network for this. Find them and subscribe from just a couple of pounds, they are glorious and make lots of brilliant and interesting shows.

For 2025 I’m touring. The current shows are ‘Wasp In A Cardigan – With Live Music’ which I am re-naming ’Same Time, Next Week’..  ‘BookTalkBookTalkBook’ written by and performed with Ben Moor and my children’s show ‘Stinky McFish’ in which I play all the parts.

Still waiting for it to be in fashion to have hair like Jimmy Page.

When I did my Wasp Show in Edinburgh, Stewart Lee gave me some lovely words and pointed lots of people in the direction of my show. Thanks Stew! One of newsletters said ‘More surgically precise strangeness from the Exene Cervenka of quirky character comedy.’ I had to google Exene Cernenka and I see what he means.