'I didn't feel like a spring chicken when I started' - Comedy legend Janice Connolly opens up about creation of Barbara Nice ahead of Wolverhampton show
Many well-known comedians started out in their younger years chasing the dream of turning laughter into a career - but for Janice Connolly BEM, it didn't start out that way.
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The 71-year-old, from Birmingham, had always loved making people laugh - but only realised she wanted to pursue comedy later than others.
Connolly was part of the city's independent music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s after nurturing her passion for drama at Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University).
She later joined Birmingham Women in Theatre, where she would write pieces for the stage, and realised - she had a talent for making people laugh.
Speaking to the Express and Star, she said: "I always really liked comedy and I was working for the company in Birmingham Women in Theatre, and we were making and writing our own stuff - and I noticed that the stuff that I was writing was getting good laughs.
