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Angela Barnes: the salty standup mentored by Sarah Millican

by Paul Fleckney

Championed by the BBC, fellow comedians and her own dad, who inspired her debut show, this rising comic specialises in heartfelt funniesAs legacies go, launching your offspring's comedy career is a pretty good one. When his daughter, Angela, was booking standups to play at the Funny Farm in Brighton, Derek Barnes knew that she really wanted to be performing herself. When he died in the summer of 2008, she finally gav…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:54am on July 31, 2017