Celeste Barber is coming to Canberra

Australia’s queen of comedy, Celeste Barber, has announced a tour of her new show Backup Dancer. She'll be in Canberra in August

Transcript

00:00 I tell you what, my husband, he is so good in social situations, which really f*cks me off.

00:05 Because I just don't think someone who looks that good should also be good at life. You know what I mean?

00:11 Pick a lane, come on. But he is. He's so good socially, it's like, it's like he becomes a

00:20 conversationalist. Which is interesting because in our marriage he's non-verbal, yet with complete

00:26 strangers he's chatty f*cking Kathy. Do you know his favourite place in the world? Front seat of an Uber.

00:37 That's not what we call it.

00:43 He bloody loves the front seat of an Uber and he'll fight me for it as well. He's like,

00:51 "Move b*tch, I've got fat to chew, get out of here." And he jumps up front and off he goes.

00:56 All chatty McGee and emotionally available all of a sudden. And then if there's, you know, just a bit

01:04 of like a natural lull in conversation, he's got this repertoire of bullf*ckery that he just whips

01:12 out, ready to go. He's always got something to say about the weather. He's got some very vague

01:20 statistics on horticulture. I'm just usually in the back googling myself.

01:26 Also, what is horticulture?

01:34 [laughter]