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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam N c Les Barber is multitasking all

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Speaker 1: over the shop comedian, author, actor, Instagram queen. She's bought

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Speaker 1: me a gift that I'm going to open in a moment.

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Speaker 1: But she's also got a new stand up show called

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Speaker 1: Backup Dance, and she's joining us now. Hello, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Can I open my presence please? This is from your

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Speaker 1: new makeup range.

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Speaker 2: Is really beauty.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Look at all the things, Look at all the pretty things.

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Speaker 1: How did this come about?

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Speaker 3: I've had this in my mind for a few years

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Speaker 3: now about making my own makeup brand that kind of

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Speaker 3: targets there's a real gap in the market for women

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Speaker 3: over the age of I don't know seven. Everything that's

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Speaker 3: marketing to people over that age is like anti aging

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Speaker 3: serum or anti aging cream or conceal it a cover

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Speaker 3: up your horrible you know faces. And I'm kind of like,

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Speaker 3: I think we're all pretty excellent. And I wanted to

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Speaker 3: bring my audience, my demographic of women back into the makeup,

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Speaker 3: into the make up conversations. I love makeup, but I

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Speaker 3: don't have time to sit and watch seventy five minute

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Speaker 3: makeup sory and and I've just found that it got

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Speaker 3: really complicated and really overwhelming. So I wanted to make

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Speaker 3: a brand and make a company that is just simple.

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Speaker 3: It's five products that get you out the door. It's

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Speaker 3: it's like your base face, and it just to bring

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Speaker 3: out the best version of you. Really, so instead of

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Speaker 3: thinking you have to always change things, it's just to

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Speaker 3: be like, you have an excellent face as it is,

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Speaker 3: so let's just celebrate it.

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Speaker 4: It's booey.

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Speaker 2: How did you come up with booeie?

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Speaker 3: What I call my boys. It's my little cute name

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Speaker 3: I call my kids. It's a nickname.

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Speaker 2: So it's weird. Now when I'm talking, like on meetings

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Speaker 2: for this, I'd be like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because we need to do with booy this or

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Speaker 3: booy that, and my kids are like, yeah, oh no,

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Speaker 3: it's not you anymore.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, boys, you by I've moved on.

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Speaker 4: But haven't you gone from strength to strength? You know?

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Speaker 4: You were the bushfire thing that that's all gone now,

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Speaker 4: hasn't it. That's yeah, yeah, it's doe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll never yes, it will never be a fire

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Speaker 2: ever again.

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Speaker 4: And at the time we said no, good d goes unpunished. Punished.

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Speaker 4: You go and do a thing and then it goes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I know that was that whole that whole time

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Speaker 2: was just so fucking, so very devastating. Oh gosh, I've

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Speaker 2: already just swot it's quite all right. That's what it's about.

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Speaker 1: It to me that made me swear backup dancers? Did

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Speaker 1: you are you a backup dancer? Did you want to

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Speaker 1: be a backup dancer?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: All I've ever wanted in my life is to be

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Speaker 3: a backup dancer for Jeanet Jackson. Yeah, I just I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's like my dream in life. There are things that

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Speaker 3: I want in my life that I haven't done. I've

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Speaker 3: done a lot of great things, and one of them

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Speaker 3: is to be a Jeet Jackson backup dad.

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Speaker 1: Can you dance?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: I used to dance dancer.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sure, yeah, sure, let's have a good dancer. But

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Speaker 3: I danced a lot when I was younger, and like

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Speaker 3: and and I've always danced. And then I went and

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Speaker 3: saw Janet Jackson nineteen ninety eight Velvet Rope Tour and

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Speaker 3: completely changed my life and I was like, well, that's

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Speaker 3: that's what I want to do, and so that's why

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Speaker 3: I've named my show backup Dancer.

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Speaker 4: You didn't want to be the main game, though, No, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Okay, because Janet, I want to just had like dance

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Speaker 3: for Janet. I wanted to, you know, I didn't want

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Speaker 3: to be the start. I mean, times have clearly changed

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Speaker 3: because now I'm doing my own soul out tours. But no,

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Speaker 3: I just to be her backup dancer. And then I

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Speaker 3: was lucky enough. I saw her live when I was

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Speaker 3: doing my tour in America a few weeks ago, and

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Speaker 3: I've I cried my eyelashes off.

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Speaker 2: It was the most incredible concert ever, saying touring. She's

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Speaker 2: fifty eight, she's still touring.

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Speaker 3: She's unbelievable, dancing hard, She's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: So that's why I've kind of dedicated the tour.

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Speaker 4: There wasn't a nipple escape or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: No, no, it was all shut up shop, No, No,

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Speaker 2: she was good.

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Speaker 1: I loved you In Colin from Accounts, one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite series ever that Australia has ever made.

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Speaker 2: You played such a mole. She was horrible. She was horrible.

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Speaker 3: She was horrible, and she was so fun to play.

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Speaker 3: I mean, being on set with that. I've known Patty

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Speaker 3: and Harry for years. Harry and I used to work

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Speaker 3: in a box office together at the Seymour Center back

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Speaker 3: in the day, and I mean, my character was so horrible,

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Speaker 3: and sitting opposite Harriet and her little face and me

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Speaker 3: just having to just rip her apart was delicious.

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Speaker 5: And it's brilliant with you coming up with all the

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Speaker 5: like you're always taking the piss.

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Speaker 4: If you've already.

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Speaker 2: Swore welcome to my show, you can say what you want.

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Speaker 4: This is the world we live in now.

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Speaker 5: But all the influences and stuff like that has got

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Speaker 5: to a point where you're thinking, I just can't do

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Speaker 5: this anymore because a lot of them are really advanced.

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Speaker 4: They're more and more work, and it's hard work to do,

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Speaker 4: I'd imagine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is the funnest ones to do when they're

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Speaker 3: the most scantily clad. So when someone, I mean I

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Speaker 3: get in undated. People send me them all the time now,

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Speaker 3: and when I see ones, it's like just someone and

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Speaker 3: there's a white wall behind them and they're hardly in

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Speaker 3: a bikini and they're dancing. I'm like, oh, yep, this

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Speaker 3: is my calling. I'm really ready for this. No, I

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Speaker 3: love it makes me laugh.

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Speaker 1: Still sitting around, you know, legs apart with a pizza slice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's how you want to like.

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Speaker 3: The caption's like, you know, it's been a long day

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Speaker 3: in the office, Go get the kids from school.

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Speaker 2: Like, that's not what's happening. That's not what's happening.

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Speaker 4: Because that's the whole first trap thing, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which, look, I've got time for that's the thing.

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Speaker 3: I don't ever want it to stop, because then I

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Speaker 3: don't have a I'd like.

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Speaker 1: You to get onto the what I eat in a

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Speaker 1: day mental Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of weird ones eat.

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Speaker 1: People eat raw meat at breakfast and just slabs of

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Speaker 1: butter at lunch, and they're these rake thin supermodels.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I've seen that as well.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I've seen one that's like this is what

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Speaker 3: Kendall Jenna eats in a day or something, and they

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Speaker 3: put the time up and by eight o'clock she's had

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Speaker 3: full rack of ribs.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's as Yeah, well, anything you

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Speaker 1: turn your hand to, we want to see, I think.

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Speaker 4: Anything maybe the aftermath. Maybe that's the next thing. The influencers,

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Speaker 4: So it's toilet the.

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Speaker 2: Other end, measuring the storm.

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Speaker 3: That'd be the name of my next stand up, Siles

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Speaker 3: Barber the other end, Well.

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Speaker 5: Get your tickets to back up dance and now it's

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Speaker 5: a less Barber dot com.

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Speaker 4: I'm not too jazz. Amanda got a present.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to play with all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome to try it.

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Speaker 5: Sure, absolutely, I need to get back to my bass face.

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Speaker 5: But I'm already fighting ten of these seven possible signs

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Speaker 5: of aging.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, don't fight them. You just got to lean

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Speaker 2: into that. Lean into them. You have to some lipstick

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Speaker 2: as we talk.

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Speaker 4: So thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me. Nice to see you