JO ENRIGHT

Best Female on the Jongleurs Comedy Circuit' - 2001, sponsored by Bodyform

'Comedian of The Year' - Leicester Comedy Festival - 1996

Now one of the best feale comedians on the circuit.. this is how her journey began.

Pontins 1978, at the tender age of ten years, Jo made her stage debut. Forced to enter the 'Miss Pontins' competition (don't be such a miserable git...heckled various family members). Jo came...no where. In an attempt to salvage some self-esteem she entered herself into the junior handwriting competition and won - ' a major turning point'.

Described as a 'creative yet rather chatty child', (Mr Sadler - Junior 3), Jo left school at 16 years old and did everything, from packing golf balls to running a launderette.

Finally she left Birmingham and, armed with handwriting certificates galore, Jo set off for London, in search of bigger and betterlaunderettes.

Eager to perfect the art of joined up writing Jo attended Middlesex University by day, and began writing and performing stand-up comedy up and down the country by night.

She appeared in 1994 at the Edinburgh Festival in a play entitled 'That's the Way to do it', which was a straight drama dealing with the issues concerning children and violence. She returned in 1995 to Edinburgh in a one hour stand-up show with John Butler and Andy Robinson in 'The West Midlands's Serious Comedy Squad' followed by her own show 'Not Tonight Josephine Enright'.

In February '96 she won ''Comedian Of The Year' at the Leicester Comedy Festival and was consequently invited back to perform the following year. At the end of '96 she performed her first solo show for two weeks at the Oval House London , which enabled her to introduce characters Yvonne and Liz, the tyrannical leader of Flabbies Slimming Club.

Jo is currently working the London comedy circuit and universities all over England.