Barry Ferns

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Barry Ferns is a British stand up comedian, writer, director, and a trained physiotherapist. Barry is also one of the founding members of Angel Comedy.

He is currently developing a series of podcasts whilst performing with Angel Comedy. He has developed a comedy shorts series Why Are You Doing This To Me?, films from which have been shown at the LA Comedy Film Festival [1] and New York's Southside Film Festival. He has performed shows at the Edinburgh Festival, [2] most recently with his show titled Barry Loves You, [3] before then he held shows on Arthur's Seat, [4] in 2012 and 2013 he performed at the peak for the month long festival. Barry introduced the first audio tour of Edinburgh Festival Fringe, [5] Dial-A-Sketch, [6] and This Show Belongs To Lionel Richie [7] for 7 years Barry changed his name to Lionel Richie for the purpose of that show. He also runs and hosts the Angel Comedy club in Islington. [8] He has written for School of Comedy on E4, [9] The Bearded Ladies on BBC Radio 4, [10] and The Milk Run on BBC Radio 1. [11]

Awards and recognition

In 2014, Ferns was nominated for a Chortle Award for Best Compere, [12] and was retrospectively awarded the Mervyn Stutter Spirit Of The Fringe Award for his 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show The Barry Experience. [13] In 2013 he won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award. [14] In March 2015, he collected the Chortle Award for Best Small Club [15] for his club Angel Comedy.

As a stand up comedian he has won the Comedy Store New Act competition, and was a finalist in the Leicester Square Comedian Of The Year competition. [16]

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  3. ↑ "Barry Ferns: Barry Loves You : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
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  5. ↑ "ED2012 Comedy Review: This Audio Tour Belongs To Lionel Richie (This Belongs To Lionel Richie)". threeweeks.co.uk.
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  7. ↑ "Barry Ferns - Edinburgh Fringe 2014 - British Comedy Guide". comedy.co.uk.
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  10. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Bearded Ladies". BBC. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
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  13. ↑ "2014 Award Winners - Edinburgh Festival Fringe". edfringe.com.
  14. ↑ John Fleming. "THE MALCOLM HARDEE AWARD - OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE". malcolmhardee.co.uk.
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