Comedy and Talks

Maggy is available on request to entertain your church, club or society with a meld of stories to make you laugh your socks off and to grant you hope and inspiration in a challenging world.

Maggy’s life has been one of adventure and miracles, from the sublime to the truly ridiculous.

Prices to suit all budgets. All locations cheerfully considered. Contact maggy@maggywhitehouse.com for more details.

Maggy Whitehouse is a unique stand-up comedian and award-winning comedy writer. She won best consumer essay writer in the US Folio ‘Eddie’ Awards, November 2023, for her very funny article, ‘Ashes to Ashes’ about the perils and pitfalls of being a funeral minister.

Maggy is a talented and confident performer, with 30+ years of radio and television presenting experience behind her. She’s also pretty darn funny. You can see Maggy mostly on the South West Comedy circuit in the UK but she is available for private events. She had three hundred participants in tears of laughter at the UMMAS clergy retreat at Lake Junaleska, North Carolina, in October 2023.

Topics include:

• For the Love of Dog: How I brought the first dog to the UK from the USA by Passports for Pets via six months ‘quarantine’ in ‘the least important village in Spain.’ That’s the village where all the women conspired to murder a wife-beater.
• The Railway Years — growing up as the daughter of a steam preservationist and founder of Birmingham Railway Museum, pursuing steam engines across China in the early 1980s, then South America and Russia in the 90s.
• I do not want to suck your **** Mr Daniels! TV and Radio in the 70s to 2000s: stories of celebrities, friendships, laughter, misconduct, disasters, my nemesis, Mary Whitehouse, and that critical decision made on the night of 9/11. (The Mr. Daniels story can be omitted if required!)
• Women of the Bible: the prophets, judges and Queens and the hidden wisdom in their stories. We know about the Matriarchs but wow! There are some amazing stories hidden in plain sight.
• Life on the Comedy Circuit. I’m the oldest ever finalist in the UK Funny Women competition (I started in comedy at the age of 56) Funny and heartwarming tales of a strange half-life filled with people left on the sidelines through autism, abuse, gender issues and who salve their wounds through making others laugh.Being a vicar has made this extra special – through braving justifiably hostile atheists to being asked to pray for someone’s grandma.

• The Cry for Myth. Human nature needs a purpose; a reason to exist. Rollo May, the great psychologist believed that without either healthy religion or myth, we live in a lonely world. Myth is not fantasy; it is humanity’s great story and without it we will not thrive. Fairy tales hold myths at their heart. Stories such as Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty, properly told, hold fascinating messages for our hearts and souls. And in our modern world, stories such as Narnia, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter have become important modern myths.

• The Heart of Jewish Mysticism. Looking at the mystical oral tradition known as ‘Kabbalah,’ the Hebrew word for ‘receive’ and how it healed my faith after the death of my first husband and the chaplain who said he was going to hell.

• Darkness and Light. How we are drowning in artificial light and avoiding the essential dark night of the soul which heals at the deepest level.

See one of Maggy’s comedy sets below.