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1	[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/funny_girl.jpg]]
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3	This is the story of a funny girl called Barbara.
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5	No, it holds no relation to the [[Theatre/FunnyGirl musical]] or [[Film/FunnyGirl film]] of that name starring Music/BarbraStreisand.
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7	Creator/NickHornby's 2014 novel is about Barbara from Blackpool, who is a very beautiful blonde obsessed with ''Series/ILoveLucy''. She wins Miss Blackpool, but doesn't want to be a paid-for pretty face and instead runs away to London. Almost immediately, a talent agent asks who she's signed with and if he can persuade her to swap sides - still, for modelling. After turning down modelling jobs, she's finally given a comedy acting audition for a Playhouse sketch. She begins to write for the show, and grows undeniable chemistry with her co-star - also one of her favourite comic radio actors. The sketch spawns several series on television. Though she had taken the stage name 'Sophie', the producers imagine a name like Barbara fits her character more - she reveals it's her actual name - and the show gets called ''Barbara (and Jim)'' - Jim being the name of her character's husband whom misery befalls nearly OnceAnEpisode.
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9	As of 2023, it has been adapted into a TV series by Creator/{{Sky}}, starrting Creator/GemmaArterton and renamed ''Funny Woman''.
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13	* ComicActors: Set when the only example was Creator/LucilleBall, Barbara's hero.
14	* HiddenDepths: To the people who only think she's eligible to be a model. Also, at the start she's assumed to be longing but never going to do anything about her dreams, so ditching the beauty contest prize and running away to London is a show of this.
15	* TomHanksSyndrome: InUniverse. Clive (who plays Jim) wanted to break into dramatic acting to get a reputation and build his career up, but the show brings him more notoriety than the dramas of the day would have.

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