{"id":502225,"date":"2026-03-29T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502225\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:58:10","slug":"amanda-dwyer-wins-billy-connolly-glasgow-comedy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502225\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Dwyer wins Billy Connolly Glasgow comedy award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The award, introduced in 2023, is intended to reward an individual who most personifies the &#8220;spirit of Glasgow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dwyer&#8217;s prize was presented by last year&#8217;s winner, comedian Rosco McClelland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was previously won by Susie McCabe in 2024 and the late Janey Godley the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Festival Director Krista MacDonald said: &#8220;We send our warmest congratulations to Amanda as the fourth ever winner of the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Amanda now joins Janey, Susie and Rosco in this prestigious list of winners who represent our city in the very best, and funniest, way they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The award, introduced in 2023, is intended to reward an individual who most personifies the &#8220;spirit of Glasgow&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-502225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}