Table of Biography
Angela Barnes is famous as a stand-up comedian. Angela Barnes is famous for her appearance on Mock the Week.
Early Life
On November 9, 1976, Angela Barnes was born in Sidcup, London, England. As of now, she is 47 years old and has Scorpio as her zodiac sign. When it comes to her education, she went to Invicta Grammar School. Later on, she attended the University of Sussex.
Caption: Angela Barnes’s mother. Source: Instagram
Net Worth 2024
Angela Barnes is one of the most well-known comedians in England. She has been part of some shoes and has made an impression on the audience. Therefore, when talking about the net worth of comedians, she does not prefer to reveal it.
Personal Life
There are no details related to Angela Barnes’s relationship status. The comedian has chosen to keep her personal life and professional life separate. Likewise, as per the sources she is still single and has not been in any relationships yet.
Professional Life
Her father, who was an important influence on her comedy had always encouraged her to become a comedian, in the summer of 2008.
She decided that life was too short not to pursue it as a career, a year after his death. Later on, she did a 12-week workshop in Brighton, and a few months later started her stage career.
Caption: Angela Barnes with her co-workers. Source: Instagram
In addition, she also won the BBC Radio 2’s New Comedy Award in 2011. Since then, she has continued to be a regular on the stand-up circuit, playing ever bigger venues.
Moreover, she has also appeared on Weekend Wogan’s Children in Need Special and Russell Kane’s Whistlestop Tour for BBC Radio 2. Similarly, she has written for BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and played on Eddie Izzard’s Laughs in the Park on BBC Two.
Moving on, she appeared on Russell Howard’s Good News on BBC Three and developed her series with BBC Radio Comedy. The comedian also performed at the Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park.
She became noted for an article in The Guardian that followed a blog post she had written, in June 2013. There, she spoke about how she felt society treated people deemed ugly and her feelings as someone who self-identified as such.
More About Career
In 2015, she returned to the subject as the subject of her Edinburgh Fringe Show “Come As You Are”. Likewise, she joined the cast of the topical show Stand Up for the Week, in November 2013. In February 2014, she appeared on Radio 4’s The Now Show. In November 2014 she appeared on Radio 4’s The News Quiz and has become a regular panellist.
In addition, she has appeared on Mock the Week and Richard Osman’s House of Games. Therefore, she was the first-ever contestant to win all five days. She got an opportunity to appear on an episode of Dave’s As Yet Untitled, and in mid-2016 toured New Zealand.
Thus, she was the host of the show Newsjack broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, from 2017 to 2018. She performed a gig in a nuclear bunker at Anstruther, as part of her show, in 2017.
In September 2019, she hosted a series in the spring of 2020, with Andy Zaltzman and Nish Kumar hosting the other 2 series in 2020. Thus, she began co-hosting the ongoing “less-than-serious history podcast” We Are History with writer John O’Farrell, in January 2020.
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, her stand-up series on BBC Radio 4 was based on her critically acclaimed début show, You Can’t Take It With You.
Angela Barnes – Social Media
Angela Barnes has an Instagram account named @angela_barnesy with 37.9k followers. Likewise, she has a Twitter account named @AngelaBarnes, with 65.4k followers.
Angela Barnes – Body Measurements
Angela Barnes stands 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs about 55 kg. Similarly, she has a body measurement of 35-28-40 inches respectively. The comedian has a blue eye colour and red hair colour.