July 14, 2024 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam N c Les Barber is multitasking all
over the shop comedian, author, actor, Instagram queen. She's bought
me a gift that I'm going to open in a moment.
But she's also got a new stand up show called
Backup Dance, and she's joining us now. Hello, good morning.
Can I open my presence please? This is from your
(00:21):
new makeup range.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is really beauty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Look at all the things, Look at all the pretty things.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
How did this come about?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I've had this in my mind for a few years
now about making my own makeup brand that kind of
targets there's a real gap in the market for women
over the age of I don't know seven. Everything that's
marketing to people over that age is like anti aging
serum or anti aging cream or conceal it a cover
up your horrible you know faces. And I'm kind of like,
(00:53):
I think we're all pretty excellent. And I wanted to
bring my audience, my demographic of women back into the makeup,
into the make up conversations. I love makeup, but I
don't have time to sit and watch seventy five minute
makeup sory and and I've just found that it got
really complicated and really overwhelming. So I wanted to make
a brand and make a company that is just simple.
(01:16):
It's five products that get you out the door. It's
it's like your base face, and it just to bring
out the best version of you. Really, so instead of
thinking you have to always change things, it's just to
be like, you have an excellent face as it is,
so let's just celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
It's booey.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
How did you come up with booeie?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
What I call my boys. It's my little cute name
I call my kids. It's a nickname.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So it's weird. Now when I'm talking, like on meetings
for this, I'd be like.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, because we need to do with booy this or
booy that, and my kids are like, yeah, oh no,
it's not you anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Sorry, boys, you by I've moved on.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But haven't you gone from strength to strength? You know?
You were the bushfire thing that that's all gone now,
hasn't it. That's yeah, yeah, it's doe.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, we'll never yes, it will never be a fire
ever again.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And at the time we said no, good d goes unpunished. Punished.
You go and do a thing and then it goes.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, I know that was that whole that whole time
was just so fucking, so very devastating. Oh gosh, I've
already just swot it's quite all right. That's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It to me that made me swear backup dancers? Did
you are you a backup dancer? Did you want to
be a backup dancer?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
All I've ever wanted in my life is to be
a backup dancer for Jeanet Jackson. Yeah, I just I mean,
it's like my dream in life. There are things that
I want in my life that I haven't done. I've
done a lot of great things, and one of them
is to be a Jeet Jackson backup dad.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Can you dance?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I used to dance dancer.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yes, sure, yeah, sure, let's have a good dancer. But
I danced a lot when I was younger, and like
and and I've always danced. And then I went and
saw Janet Jackson nineteen ninety eight Velvet Rope Tour and
completely changed my life and I was like, well, that's
that's what I want to do, and so that's why
I've named my show backup Dancer.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You didn't want to be the main game, though, No, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Okay, because Janet, I want to just had like dance
for Janet. I wanted to, you know, I didn't want
to be the start. I mean, times have clearly changed
because now I'm doing my own soul out tours. But no,
I just to be her backup dancer. And then I
was lucky enough. I saw her live when I was
doing my tour in America a few weeks ago, and
(03:24):
I've I cried my eyelashes off.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was the most incredible concert ever, saying touring. She's
fifty eight, she's still touring.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
She's unbelievable, dancing hard, She's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So that's why I've kind of dedicated the tour.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
There wasn't a nipple escape or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, no, it was all shut up shop, No, No,
she was good.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I loved you In Colin from Accounts, one of my
favorite series ever that Australia has ever made.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You played such a mole. She was horrible. She was horrible.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
She was horrible, and she was so fun to play.
I mean, being on set with that. I've known Patty
and Harry for years. Harry and I used to work
in a box office together at the Seymour Center back
in the day, and I mean, my character was so horrible,
and sitting opposite Harriet and her little face and me
just having to just rip her apart was delicious.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
And it's brilliant with you coming up with all the
like you're always taking the piss.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
If you've already.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Swore welcome to my show, you can say what you want.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
This is the world we live in now.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
But all the influences and stuff like that has got
to a point where you're thinking, I just can't do
this anymore because a lot of them are really advanced.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
They're more and more work, and it's hard work to do,
I'd imagine.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, it is the funnest ones to do when they're
the most scantily clad. So when someone, I mean I
get in undated. People send me them all the time now,
and when I see ones, it's like just someone and
there's a white wall behind them and they're hardly in
a bikini and they're dancing. I'm like, oh, yep, this
is my calling. I'm really ready for this. No, I
(05:02):
love it makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Still sitting around, you know, legs apart with a pizza slice. Yeah,
that's how you want to like.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The caption's like, you know, it's been a long day
in the office, Go get the kids from school.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Like, that's not what's happening. That's not what's happening.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Because that's the whole first trap thing, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, which, look, I've got time for that's the thing.
I don't ever want it to stop, because then I
don't have a I'd like.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You to get onto the what I eat in a
day mental Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of weird ones eat.
People eat raw meat at breakfast and just slabs of
butter at lunch, and they're these rake thin supermodels.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah I've seen that as well.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But yeah, I've seen one that's like this is what
Kendall Jenna eats in a day or something, and they
put the time up and by eight o'clock she's had
full rack of ribs.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't know if that's as Yeah, well, anything you
turn your hand to, we want to see, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Anything maybe the aftermath. Maybe that's the next thing. The influencers,
So it's toilet the.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Other end, measuring the storm.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That'd be the name of my next stand up, Siles
Barber the other end, Well.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Get your tickets to back up dance and now it's
a less Barber dot com.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I'm not too jazz. Amanda got a present.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm going to play with all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You're welcome to try it.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Sure, absolutely, I need to get back to my bass face.
But I'm already fighting ten of these seven possible signs
of aging.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yeah, don't fight them. You just got to lean
into that. Lean into them. You have to some lipstick
as we talk.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Thanks so much for having me. Nice to see you
And Amanda jam N c Les Barber is multitasking all
over the shop comedian, author, actor, Instagram queen. She's bought
me a gift that I'm going to open in a moment.
But she's also got a new stand up show called
Backup Dance, and she's joining us now. Hello, good morning.
Can I open my presence please? This is from your
(00:21):
new makeup range.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is really beauty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Look at all the things, Look at all the pretty things.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
How did this come about?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I've had this in my mind for a few years
now about making my own makeup brand that kind of
targets there's a real gap in the market for women
over the age of I don't know seven. Everything that's
marketing to people over that age is like anti aging
serum or anti aging cream or conceal it a cover
up your horrible you know faces. And I'm kind of like,
(00:53):
I think we're all pretty excellent. And I wanted to
bring my audience, my demographic of women back into the makeup,
into the make up conversations. I love makeup, but I
don't have time to sit and watch seventy five minute
makeup sory and and I've just found that it got
really complicated and really overwhelming. So I wanted to make
a brand and make a company that is just simple.
(01:16):
It's five products that get you out the door. It's
it's like your base face, and it just to bring
out the best version of you. Really, so instead of
thinking you have to always change things, it's just to
be like, you have an excellent face as it is,
so let's just celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
It's booey.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
How did you come up with booeie?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
What I call my boys. It's my little cute name
I call my kids. It's a nickname.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So it's weird. Now when I'm talking, like on meetings
for this, I'd be like.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, because we need to do with booy this or
booy that, and my kids are like, yeah, oh no,
it's not you anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Sorry, boys, you by I've moved on.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But haven't you gone from strength to strength? You know?
You were the bushfire thing that that's all gone now,
hasn't it. That's yeah, yeah, it's doe.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, we'll never yes, it will never be a fire
ever again.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And at the time we said no, good d goes unpunished. Punished.
You go and do a thing and then it goes.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, I know that was that whole that whole time
was just so fucking, so very devastating. Oh gosh, I've
already just swot it's quite all right. That's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It to me that made me swear backup dancers? Did
you are you a backup dancer? Did you want to
be a backup dancer?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
All I've ever wanted in my life is to be
a backup dancer for Jeanet Jackson. Yeah, I just I mean,
it's like my dream in life. There are things that
I want in my life that I haven't done. I've
done a lot of great things, and one of them
is to be a Jeet Jackson backup dad.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Can you dance?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I used to dance dancer.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yes, sure, yeah, sure, let's have a good dancer. But
I danced a lot when I was younger, and like
and and I've always danced. And then I went and
saw Janet Jackson nineteen ninety eight Velvet Rope Tour and
completely changed my life and I was like, well, that's
that's what I want to do, and so that's why
I've named my show backup Dancer.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You didn't want to be the main game, though, No, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Okay, because Janet, I want to just had like dance
for Janet. I wanted to, you know, I didn't want
to be the start. I mean, times have clearly changed
because now I'm doing my own soul out tours. But no,
I just to be her backup dancer. And then I
was lucky enough. I saw her live when I was
doing my tour in America a few weeks ago, and
(03:24):
I've I cried my eyelashes off.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was the most incredible concert ever, saying touring. She's
fifty eight, she's still touring.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
She's unbelievable, dancing hard, She's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So that's why I've kind of dedicated the tour.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
There wasn't a nipple escape or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, no, it was all shut up shop, No, No,
she was good.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I loved you In Colin from Accounts, one of my
favorite series ever that Australia has ever made.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You played such a mole. She was horrible. She was horrible.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
She was horrible, and she was so fun to play.
I mean, being on set with that. I've known Patty
and Harry for years. Harry and I used to work
in a box office together at the Seymour Center back
in the day, and I mean, my character was so horrible,
and sitting opposite Harriet and her little face and me
just having to just rip her apart was delicious.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
And it's brilliant with you coming up with all the
like you're always taking the piss.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
If you've already.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Swore welcome to my show, you can say what you want.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
This is the world we live in now.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
But all the influences and stuff like that has got
to a point where you're thinking, I just can't do
this anymore because a lot of them are really advanced.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
They're more and more work, and it's hard work to do,
I'd imagine.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, it is the funnest ones to do when they're
the most scantily clad. So when someone, I mean I
get in undated. People send me them all the time now,
and when I see ones, it's like just someone and
there's a white wall behind them and they're hardly in
a bikini and they're dancing. I'm like, oh, yep, this
is my calling. I'm really ready for this. No, I
(05:02):
love it makes me laugh.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Still sitting around, you know, legs apart with a pizza slice. Yeah,
that's how you want to like.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The caption's like, you know, it's been a long day
in the office, Go get the kids from school.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Like, that's not what's happening. That's not what's happening.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Because that's the whole first trap thing, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, which, look, I've got time for that's the thing.
I don't ever want it to stop, because then I
don't have a I'd like.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You to get onto the what I eat in a
day mental Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of weird ones eat.
People eat raw meat at breakfast and just slabs of
butter at lunch, and they're these rake thin supermodels.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah I've seen that as well.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But yeah, I've seen one that's like this is what
Kendall Jenna eats in a day or something, and they
put the time up and by eight o'clock she's had
full rack of ribs.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't know if that's as Yeah, well, anything you
turn your hand to, we want to see, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Anything maybe the aftermath. Maybe that's the next thing. The influencers,
So it's toilet the.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Other end, measuring the storm.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That'd be the name of my next stand up, Siles
Barber the other end, Well.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Get your tickets to back up dance and now it's
a less Barber dot com.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I'm not too jazz. Amanda got a present.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm going to play with all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You're welcome to try it.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Sure, absolutely, I need to get back to my bass face.
But I'm already fighting ten of these seven possible signs
of aging.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yeah, don't fight them. You just got to lean
into that. Lean into them. You have to some lipstick
as we talk.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Thanks so much for having me. Nice to see you
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