Janey Godley funeral is colourful comedy send-off

Comedian Janey Godley has been fixed a colourful drama send-off successful Glasgow, with Scotland's erstwhile archetypal curate Nicola Sturgeon among the mourners.

The ceremonial astatine St Mary's Cathedral successful Glasgow saw galore household and friends deterioration colourful outfits and ended with her catchphrase "Frank, get the door".

The Scottish comedian died earlier this period astatine the property of 63, aft receiving palliative attraction for ovarian cancer.

Godley recovered viral fame by making voiceover parodies of Sturgeon's quality briefings during the Covid pandemic, earlier the brace became friends.

Godley's girl Ashley Storrie spoke astatine the service, saying she would not beryllium capable to bash immoderate of her mother's jokes arsenic she was successful "a location of god".

Storrie, 38, a comedian and vigor presenter, said: "My mum was precise overmuch a girl of Glasgow, she loved her metropolis dearly, it was her favourite spot successful the full wide world.

"The emblem of Glasgow is the histrion that ne'er grew, and the doorbell that ne'er rang, and the vertebrate that ne'er flew, and the food that ne'er swam, and I deliberation she took that arsenic a challenge.

"It felt similar the satellite was telling her, beryllium quiet, enactment small, don't get big, truthful she did the opposite.

Storrie besides thanked hundreds of mourners who lined the streets of Edinburgh connected Friday, to spot the hearse carrying Godley connected her "final tour" up of the service.

Gavin Mitchell, who played Bobby the barman successful BBC sitcom Still Game, was besides among the mourners astatine St Mary's Cathedral.

The ceremonial was held on the aforesaid time arsenic a memorial work for erstwhile archetypal curate Alex Salmond, astatine St Giles' Cathedral successful Edinburgh

Godley's work ended with a signaling of her saying, "Frank, get the door" earlier the religion doors opened.

The comedian utilized the catchphrase to extremity each of her Nicola Sturgeon Covid parodies. The operation was besides the rubric of Godley's 2020 book.

At the service, the vicar had praised her pandemic drama videos.

He said: "It's nary exaggeration to accidental that it's apt determination are radical live contiguous due to the fact that of Janey Godley, due to the fact that of comic wee videos, and due to the fact that of the information she told connected stage.

"She kept them going done lockdown, and due to the fact that radical were capable to marque usage of the proposal that they were being fixed done what she said."

Godley had said her Frank catchphrase was based connected a antheral who work "cowboy books" successful a pub she worked in.

Born successful the eastbound extremity of Glasgow successful 1961, Godley was a landlady earlier establishing herself connected the drama circuit.

She became known to a wider assemblage crossed the satellite for her protestation against Donald Trump's 2016 sojourn to Scotland, wherever she held up a motion with an violative connection describing the past president.