Women and Equalities Committee
28 April 2026
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Committee House of Commons
00:01 - 00:55
Speaker 1
Order. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Women in Equality Select Committee. Today, we're holding an oral evidence session on the experience of women in live comedy. This is the second of our sessions, and we have got two panel today. So I'm delighted to hear first from Amy Perry, head booker at Frog and Bucket Comedy Venue, and Kelly Edwards Good, senior marketing and press officer at Comedia Brighton, where I have laughed many, many times before.
So thank you both, for coming, and welcome. And the first question really is about representation of women in live comedy. I'm gonna come to you first, Amy, if I can. We've heard that comedy lineups often lack women including those women from minority ethnic groups. As a club, how do you approach booking comedians and ensuring that you've got a diverse lineup on the panel and reflect the kind of audiences that we see today?
Just firstly, I just wanna quickly say,
01:10 - 01:19
Speaker 2
I'm a Kiwi, and I'd be amiss if I didn't speak today a Maori today. Awesome. You were really well listed from our committee, I think. Yeah. So it was just a real honor for me.
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