Natalie Haynes
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Natalie Haynes is a British comedian and author. She has been performing stand-up comedy since 1994 and was a member of Footlights at Cambridge University.
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[edit] Radio
Natalie has been a panellist on We've Been Here Before, Banter, Quote... Unquote, Personality Test, and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, all on Radio 4, and is a regular guest on the BBC7 comedy review show, Serious About Comedy. She also reviews films for Front Row.
Her stand-up has been featured on Front Row and Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4, on BBC 7's Spanking New, plus the audio book highlights. She has also appeared in the Radio 4 Pick of the Fringe in 2004 and 2005. She is a regular panellist on the Anita Anand Show on Radio Five Live, and is resident Latin expert for Macaulay and Co. on BBC Scotland.
Natalie wrote and presented a documentary about comic writers, from Jessica Mitford and Dorothy Parker to Fran Lebowitz and Cynthia Heimel, also for Radio 4, in May 2005.
Her new documentary, Classical Comedy, about how modern comedians stole all their jokes from Aristophanes, Juvenal and Martial, was broadcast on Radio 4 on October 31 at 11am.
[edit] Television
Natalie is a regular panellist on More4's The Last Word.
She featured in the BBC2 documentary Backlash, about voluntary childlessness.
She wrote and performed in the STV/Assembly Television Best of the Fest show in August 2005.
She appeared as a panellist on BBC 4’s quiz show, Mindgames, with Simon Singh, and featured in a Liberty Bell series about school reports, Must Try Harder, screened on BBC2 in 2006.
[edit] Journalism
Natalie writes for the Sunday Telegraph and The Big Issue, and reviews the odd book for The Mail On Sunday.
[edit] Live shows
Five Edinburgh Fringe sell-out runs and national tours:
- 2002 Six Degrees of Desolation (nominated for Perrier Award Best Newcomer)
- 2003 Troubled Enough
- 2004 Still Not Sorry
- 2005 Run Or Die
- 2006 Watching the Detectives (currently touring)
Natalie has toured internationally - from Dublin and Berlin to Manhattan.
Natalie is the only comedian to have appeared at every Newbury Comedy Festival.
