Barry Ferns
- British
- Writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 6
A piggy interview with Barry Ferns
Barry Ferns interview.
Wrigley Worm, FringePig, 23rd June 2018Comics threatened legally over show title
Barry Ferns and Alasdair Beckett-King had planned to perform an interactive hour called Choose Your Own Comedy Adventure. However, the small show attracted the attention of the US-based publishers of the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, saying the title was 'an issue for our legal team'.
Chortle, 1st May 2018Profile of Angel Comedy Club
The Angel Comedy Club night - in a room above a pub in in Islington, north London - kicked off in 2010 and spearheaded a policy of "pay what you can, when you leave". It became so successful that it ended up staging shows seven nights a week. A year ago, the comics who run this club took this concept to an entirely different level when they clubbed together and bought their own pub, around the corner.
William Cook, The Independent, 12th January 2018Edinburgh 10x10: 9. For one night only
Ten one-offs.
Chortle, 27th July 2017Live Review: Angel Comedy Club Opening Night
With Nish Kumar, Tony Law, Tom Rosenthal, Barry Ferns, Yuriko Kotani, Jamali Maddix and Jarred Christmas.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th November 2016I am lazy. Comedy club crowdfunding continues.
On 3rd June, I had a chat with Barry Ferns and Dec Munro about the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign they had just started to help finance the new Angel Comedy 2.0 comedy club in London's Islington. The idea was that I could give their campaign a boost with a blog. What could go wrong?
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 21st July 2016Angel Comedy Club keeps Mucky Pup pub open
"We thought that maybe a gastro pub would buy the Mucky Pup but the owner liked our idea of helping the community," says Barry Ferns.
Katarina Poensgen, The Islington Gazette, 24th June 2016Angel Comedy Club raises funds for new venue
London's Angel Comedy Club has raised the £20,000 it needed to refit a new dedicated venue in just ten days.
Chortle, 2nd June 2016Barry Ferns: Top ten Fringe publicity stunts
We comedians will go as far as it takes to get noticed at the biggest arts festival of the world and I've pulled quite a few stunts in my time at Edinburgh, from performing the first show on top of Arthurs Seat, to doing a sketch show with pensioners in it, to changing my name to Lionel Richie by deed poll, to making up entirely fake reviews of my show.
Barry Ferns, ThreeWeeks, 13th August 2014Edinburgh Fringe 2014 interview: Barry Ferns
If you haven't heard of Barry Ferns you've probably heard of one of his imaginative ideas, whether it's establishing Lionel Richie's rightful ownership of most things in the world, climbing up Arthur's Seat every day to perform a comedy show via a portable PA system or creating a fake review paper to help market his own show. Now Barry is channeling that creativity into his debut hour at the Fringe, a show that's been a long time in the works.
Laugh Out London, 8th August 2014