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Joy Carter (born 1970) is an English, Nigerian born Stand-up comedian and adoption campaigner from Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire, who has appeared on many TV and Radio programmes.

Contents

1. Biography 2. Awards 3. Company 4. External links

1. Biography

Joy Carter was born into the Biafran War in Nigeria along with her twin sister who died. After a succession of un-believable coincidences she was adopted out of the war by a white British family and moved to the UK aged 2 years. The family moved to Blaby, Leicester until she was 12 before a move to Scunthorpe. Carter attended Frederick Gough Comprehensive school in Scunthorpe, before going on to Wimbledon School of Art where she studied Theatre Design. Carter spent her twenties working for L’Ouverture Theatre Trust teaching Theatre Design and acting. She spent some early years working as a model and landing some huge contracts such as becoming the face of Abbey National, Louis Vuitton catwalk shows and Nokia phones.

After some years dabbling as a comedian in 2000 Carter started performing full time in clubs and pubs to work on her craft.

2. Awards

In 2004 she was nominated in the category of Best Comedian for an EMMA Award at the Grosvensor Hotel. Since then Carter has appeared on countless news reviews most recently 1. Channel 4 News ‘WT4’ with Jon Snow and Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg discussing North and South England. Carter’s past work has included SKY News, 2. Radio 4 and BBC Breakfast as she regularly comments about adoption issues. Her love of radio is evident as a regular panel guest on shows such as ‘The Niki Bedi Show’ and ‘Gaby Roslin and Paul Ross Show’ to name a few.

3. Company

After campaigning for adoption and fostering organisations such as British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), Save the Children and National Association of Fostering Providers (NAFP) Carter set up her own company and charity in 2013. The company Zealfi Ltd will launch later 2014 along with the charity ‘Comics 4 adoption’.

4. External links

1.Channel 4 news ‘wt4’ North vs South debate with Jon Snow, MP Jacob Rees-Mogg http://www.channel4.com/news/wt4-north-south-debate

2014 – The Science of Comedy. Guardian write up on Leicester University Event http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/feb/11/science-comedy-academics-social

2012 – BBC Radio 2, Radio 4 and ‘the Today’ show ‘Give children a fighting chance’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9703000/9703981.stm

Joy Carter website