Background
During the summer of 2008, Barnes lost her father, who was her comedy influence and had always encouraged her to do lieutenant
During the summer of 2008, Barnes lost her father, who was her comedy influence and had always encouraged her to do lieutenant
University of Sussex.
Barnes was brought up in Maidstone, Kent. She went to Invicta Grammar School then, in 1996, the University of Sussex in Brighton
A year after his death, she decided that life was too short not to Since winning the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2"s New Comedy Award 2011, Barnes has continued to be a regular on the stand-up circuit, playing even bigger venues.
She has also appeared on Weekend Wogan’s Children in Need Special and Russell Kane’s Whistlestop Tour for Radio 2, written for Radio 4’s The News Quiz, played on Eddie Izzard’s Laughs in the Park on British Broadcasting Corporation Two, appeared on Russell Howard"s Good News on British Broadcasting Corporation Three, developed her own series with British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Comedy, and performed at the Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park.
In June 2013, Barnes became noted for an article in The Guardian that followed a blog post she had written, where she spoke about how she felt society treated people deemed ugly and her feelings as someone who self-identified as such. she return to the subject in 2015 as the subject of her Edinburgh Fringe Show
Indiana November 2014 she appeared on Radio 4"s "The News Quiz"
She has also appeared on "Mock The Week" on British Broadcasting Corporation Two and Dave"s "As Yet Untitled" alongside Alan Davies, Janet Street-Porter and Michael Ball and in May will be touring New Zealand.
In November 2013, Barnes joined the cast of the topical show Stand Up for the Week and, in February 2014, appeared on Radio 4"s The Now Show.