Debra-Jane Appleby

Debra-Jane Appelby (born c. 1967) is a British award-winning stand-up comedian. She won the third year of the Funny Women competition.

Life Appelby was born in Huddersfield about 1967.

In 2004 she made the semi-finals of Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny. 2005 was her year when she won two awards. She beat Sarah Millican and Ruth Bratt in the third year of the Funny Women competition which Sarah Adams had started in 2003. She also took the main award at the Leicester Comedy Festival that year. The victory in a women's only competition was considered important.