Mrs Barbara Nice Phoenix Nights, as Holy Mary
That Peter Kay Thing. As Mrs. Bamford in Leonard
Mrs Barbara Nice, the creation of Janice Connolly, is a warm and wonderful
compere who stamps her own distinctive mark on an evening, without ever
detracting from the comics she is introducing. Here the incongruity between her silly stunts and her straight-laced
image are funny and endearing - simply because you would expect he
r character to be more at home at a mothers' coffee morning than,
say, stagediving to Iggy Pop.