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Ashley Storrie (b 1986) is a Scots comedian, actress and BBC Radio Scotland radio host. She makes parody videos and has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe comedy show. She won the 2020 Scottish Comedy Award for Best Radio Comic and was shortlisted for the Herald Scottish Culture Awards in the comedy category in 2019.

Storrie wis born in Glasgow to Scots comedian Janey Godley and Sean Storrie. Her father's family was gangsters.

She performed her first show at the Edinburgh Fringe when she was 13. Before her first performance, she would hand out flyers for her mother's shows.

Before becoming a comedian, Storrie had various jobs, often being fired for comedically inappropriate behavior. She was fired from her job as a receptionist at a Glasgow law firm for stacking cans of Coke into a pyramid during a meeting in the room with Japanese clients. Storrie has stated that she hesitated to pursue a career in comedy as an act of rebellion against her supportive mother.