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
Angel Comedy is a free comedy night that runs seven nights a week at two pub venues in London, England; above the Camden Head and in The Bill Murray. The club was founded by Barry Ferns, Sarah Pearce, Rachael Warnes and Dec Munro, and describes i ...
.
He is currently developing a series of podcasts whilst performing with
Angel Comedy
Angel Comedy is a free comedy night that runs seven nights a week at two pub venues in London, England; above the Camden Head and in The Bill Murray. The club was founded by Barry Ferns, Sarah Pearce, Rachael Warnes and Dec Munro, and describes i ...
. 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 and New York's Southside Film Festival. He has performed shows at the
Edinburgh Festival
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, most recently with his show titled ''Barry Loves You'', before then he held shows on Arthur's Seat, in 2012 and 2013 he performed at the peak for the month long festival. Barry introduced the first audio tour of
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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, Dial-A-Sketch, and ''This Show Belongs To Lionel Richie'' for 7 years Barry changed his name to Lionel Richie for the purpose of that show. He also runs and hosts the
Angel Comedy
Angel Comedy is a free comedy night that runs seven nights a week at two pub venues in London, England; above the Camden Head and in The Bill Murray. The club was founded by Barry Ferns, Sarah Pearce, Rachael Warnes and Dec Munro, and describes i ...
club in
Islington
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. He has written for ''
School of Comedy
''School of Comedy'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British character-based comedy sketch show which was turned into a television show after a successful run of review shows at the Edinburgh festival.E4,''The Bearded Ladies'' on
BBC Radio 4
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, and ''The Milk Run'' on
BBC Radio 1
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.
Awards and recognition
In 2014, Ferns was nominated for a Chortle Award for Best Compere, and was retrospectively awarded the Mervyn Stutter Spirit Of The Fringe Award for his 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show ''The Barry Experience''. In 2013 he won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award. In March 2015, he collected the Chortle Award for Best Small Club for his club
Angel Comedy
Angel Comedy is a free comedy night that runs seven nights a week at two pub venues in London, England; above the Camden Head and in The Bill Murray. The club was founded by Barry Ferns, Sarah Pearce, Rachael Warnes and Dec Munro, and describes i ...
.
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.