About Jenny
Jenny Eclair is a stand-up comedian who was the first woman to win the Perrier Award at Edinburgh Festival in 1995. She gained prominence for her starring role in BBC1's Grumpy Old Women series, which ran for three seasons and was adapted into four live stage shows that toured the UK and Australia, which she co-wrote and starred in. She was a contestant on Channel 4's Taskmaster series 15 and currently hosts the spin-off podcast Taskmaster: The People's Podcast. With Judith Holder, she co-hosts the weekly podcast Older and Wider.
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AuthorComedianTV presentersMotivationalHost / MCActorEntertainerAfter dinnerComedy HumourCreativity
Known for
- Grumpy Old Women (BBC1 television series and live shows)
- Taskmaster (Channel 4)
- Taskmaster: The People's Podcast
- Older and Wider podcast
- Little Lifetimes BBC Radio Four monologues
- novels and non-fiction books
- Perrier Award winner
- Stand-up Comic
- Writer
- Presenter
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