Edel Coffey
speaker
144 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Edel Coffey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People like Lena Dunham would describe her as an absolute influence and that they couldn't have written the work they write without her.
Dolly Alderton, those kind of writers really relate to her.
That line is attributed to her, but it was her mother who said that and she used to say it to her and she was the eldest of three, the eldest of four girls.
And her mother used to say to them when they had a bad experience where they were crying about something, you know, everything's copy.
It was kind of like just, you know, shut up complaining and turn it into...
some glittering piece of copy and you'll be happy.
And she did that in her own life.
So her parents were these Hollywood screenwriters.
And she was born in New York, but when she was four, the family moved to LA where they wrote films.
And so she, you know, she had this kind of access to Hollywood and her parents would have known really famous people.
But she always sort of described herself as an outsider.
And as soon as she could leave L.A., she went back to New York.
So she always had that yearning for New York.
And we see that in her films as well.
So back she went to New York where she worked as a journalist in Newsweek and she worked as a male girl there.
As you would expect at the time, women weren't, you know,
number one in the journalism world.
But she worked her way up as she actually got a job in the New York Post, having written a parody of a New York Post journalist in Newsweek.
So they were like, well, if she can parody us this well, let's hire her.
So off she went.
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