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
Haynes has been a panellist on We've Been Here Before, Banter, Quote... Unquote, Personality Test, and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, all on BBC Radio 4, and is a regular guest on the BBC 7 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 BBC 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.
Haynes has written and presented two radio documentaries about comic writers, for BBC Radio 4; one about modern female writers including Jessica Mitford and Dorothy Parker in May 2005, and another regarding Aristophanes, Juvenal and Martial, in October 2006.
[edit] Television
Haynes is a regular panelist on More4's The Last Word, and a semi-regular guest on BBC Two's "Newsnight Review".
She is featured in the BBC Two 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 Four’s quiz show, Mindgames, with Simon Singh, and featured in a Liberty Bell series about school reports, Must Try Harder, screened on BBC Two in 2006.
In August 2007 she appeared on BBC Four's The Book Quiz hosted by David Baddiel. On the programme she admitted researching a book on Wikipedia in order to bluff having read it.[1]
She appeared on University Challenge: The Professionals aired on 2 April 2008, as part of a team of stand-up comedians. They lost to a team from the Ministry of Justice by 100 points to 215.
[edit] Journalism
Haynes writes for the Sunday Telegraph and The Big Issue, and reviews the odd book for The Mail On Sunday.
[edit] Live shows
Haynes has toured internationally - from Dublin and Berlin to Manhattan - and has performed 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
Haynes is the only comedian to have appeared at every Newbury Comedy Festival.
