Award-winning comic and Fox Sports activities star Andrew ‘Barney’ Barnett makes his Melbourne Worldwide Comedy Pageant debut with ‘Barney’.
With razor-sharp wit and a relaxed comedy fashion, Andrew will sort out all (some) of the problems, each large and small (principally small). . . From an increasing technology hole, to fashionable romance, to home-schooling an 11-year-old. . . Andrew finds the humorous in all of it, even for those who’re purported to take it significantly.
You would possibly’ve seen Barney on Fox Sports activities and Kayo in his work on Fox League (‘The Professors Late Hit’, ‘Sunday Evening With Matty Johns’), Fox Cricket (‘The Evening Watchmen’) and ‘The Again Web page’.
This new stand-up present, ‘Barney’, is about life, love, and the pursuit of a superb nickname.
Right here, we chat to Andrew earlier than he performs the Comedy Pageant for the primary time.
What’ll you be bringing to audiences on this present, in a number of sentences?
That is my first time doing the Melbourne Worldwide Comedy Pageant so this present is the sum of 12 years of jokes and tales. It’s principally me making an attempt to make enjoyable of my household, work and the rest you might be purported to take significantly.
What’s the key to a superb nickname?
A fantastic nickname simply needs to be simple to recollect and enjoyable to say. The strictest instructor at my highschool beloved me just because he appreciated saying ‘Barney’ at any time when he noticed me. By no means underestimate the ability of individuals assuming you are mates as a result of they know your nickname. It’s a shortcut to friendship.
You’ve been performing stand-up since 2010. What’s the most effective factor you’ve realized since beginning out?
That I ought to have listened to that mate who advised me to put money into Bitcoin again in 2012. If I’d executed that I’d be the one performer on the pageant with a present about non-public jets and proudly owning an island. It’d be completely unrelatable, however I in all probability wouldn’t care.
Do you’ve got a very fascinating (for higher or worse) current viewers expertise?
I just lately carried out at a fundraiser for a sporting membership. My Fox Sports activities on-air companion, ‘The Professor’ and I ran a faux silent public sale promoting memorabilia, commemorating moments when varied athletes had disgraced themselves off the sector. It went very effectively, however after we had completed, the MC got here backstage and advised us that the brother of one of many footballers we had made jokes about was on the occasion and was “in search of us”. The MC requested if we wished to fulfill him. We mentioned we’d be out in a couple of minutes to say hello, then courageously snuck out the again door. Operating away is the higher a part of valour.
How would you describe your fashion of comedy to a newcomer?
Principally it’s simply me having enjoyable and sharing the stuff that makes me chortle.
And the place did your love for the craft start?
Ingesting on the Exford Lodge watching the comedy showcase through the 2009 pageant. It seemed like a lot enjoyable that I assumed I’d give it a crack.
What are you wanting ahead to about this comedy season?
I really feel like with all of the drama of the previous two years we’ve earned the prospect to let our hair down, chortle tons and have a superb time. Outdoors of performing, I’ll be testing as many reveals as I can. I feel all of us want a superb chortle proper now.
Andrew Barnett performs Greek Centre – Aphrodite (Melbourne Worldwide Comedy Pageant) 31 March-24 April.