🤣 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Celeste Barber

The hilarious Celeste Barber joins Jonesy & Amanda for a fantastic chat!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. There's any shadow of a doubt
that Celes Barbara is one of the top comedians across
the globe right now. You just need to take a
look at her sellout shows across the US, the UK
and Europe. Well, I saw her show in Sydney last time.
It's one of the funniest shows I have ever seen.
She's dusting off the ballet flats, popping the leotard back
on ladies and she prepares to bring the same comedy

(00:24):
goal to shows across Australia. So Les Barber, Hell.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hi, lording guys. How are you.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's so great to talk to you again, Like you're
a global phenomenonon now. So does that make that you're
like loaded? Are you fully loaded?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh? My god, I have got you. I've got so
much money you guys. I'm actually on this call from
my private jets in the air as we speak, Donald TuS.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I imagine you're seeing just one of those big money
piles with some sort of jaunty looking crown at the side.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's what I Yes, yeah, I haven't I've seen my
kids in six months because I'm too busy just counting
my fifties.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
All in coins. Funnily enough, Celesia's show was so funny
and it was so relatably daggly Australian. How have European
and American audience has taken to this? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think the universal rule is that we are all
actually massive DAGs. It doesn't matter what accent you put
on top of it. It goes so well internationally, which
I'm so excited about and relieved about as well. That
you know, if there's one thing that my audience all
have in common, it's that they like to get into it.
All my drunk mums come along to the shows and

(01:39):
they have an excellent time. They book their babysitters, they
get all their girls together, and yet we have an
absolute ripper of a time.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
There's been a lot of incidents with hecklers recently. Have
you had any heckling incidents go bad?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
No? I haven't, I must admit. I'm I'm pretty lucky
like that. I don't mind a bit of a heck
every now and then.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
But like I.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Say, my girls, look, a lot of my ladies, as
I say, are moms and they're drunk mums, so they're
allowed out like an hour a month. So when they
pick that hour to come and see me, they're like
they lock in and they're like, don't go too long, women,
because I've got to get home.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
And also, it's the universal stuff, isn't it about having
dreams when you're younger, being insecure, overcoming all of that.
It's absolutely universal for women.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh yeah, definitely. And then me just kind of living
that out on stage and people seeing themselves in me.
That's the best part. It's that, yeah, that idea of going, oh,
if only, if only I could bring my little awkward
self and put her on stage. Now I would, and
that's luckily enough what I am able to do.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Your show's called backup dancer. Were you a backup dancer?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, I'm still that's the goal in life. That's the
goal in life, to be a Janet Jackson backup dancer.
I'm still working toward it.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
We've been talking today. I discovered an old garage band
tape that I had when I was about eighteen or nineteen,
and I think the female version is being a backup dancer,
and the male version is being in a garage band
and then going on to be a rock star.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes, I've gone through many a boxes at my parents'
house looking for the VHS tapes of me dancing around
my lounge room as a Janet Jackson backup dancer, or
when I did a Stedford's when I was younger. That's
definitely still the goal.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
And when you were a king, did you put on
shows for your family?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Interestingly? Well, I mean I danced when I was younger,
but when I did the Janet Jackson stuff, I would
just do that at home alone. Every day after school.
I would do the full blown Janet Jackson Velvet wrote
nineteen ninety eight. Sure, alone in my lounge room, and
if my mom came home, i'd stop because I was like, no,
it's not for you, It's for me and Janet. Janet

(03:52):
and I are doing this together. I didn't really need
an audience.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Have you had any correspondence with Janet.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Listen, Amana, I nearly met her, but I absolutely ruined it.
And I had a chance to meet her. I was
in Vegas and I had a chance to meet her.
I was just I was backstage after seeing Kylie Minogue's
residencing in Vegas, and then Janet Jackson was there and
I lost my mind. And then it was just the
three of us in a room and it was very

(04:22):
clear I know this story doesn't end well. It was
very very clear that I was a huge fan of
hers and Kylie knew that as well. And it was
just seeing where Kylie was like, well, go, like what
are you doing? Go and do it? And all I
could think to do was go get me a beat
and start just dancing in front of her. Yeah, I

(04:42):
know it was I didn't know because my husband just
in the nick of time, grabbed me and went, don't
do that, don't do that.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Thank God for the hot.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know he saved me. Even Kylie was like, don't
dance in front of her.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I was that's given me. I was thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
I know it will happen. I know it will happen.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Just a simple just a simple hat Janet as role
play this love your work the end that is.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yes, it's not hard, is it? It seems easy to do.
I don't know what happened to me. I just just like,
pick your legs and drop into the slits. I don't
know what to do.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
More, celest, that's what makes you great? And back up
down to tour is happening heads Celeste Barber dot com.
Always great to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
So nice to talk to you guys. Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
And I'm loving you make up range. I use it
all the time and I love it.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh you're the best man. I'll send you more. I'll
send you more, babe.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Please do lots alarm.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
What do I get?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Anything?

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Do I send anything? You're wrapping The call up in.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Your it's in your PO box, it's in your pox.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Pick it up.