Aug 23, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 12 segments
Barnaby Slater is a British comedian, writer, and producer whose career spans stand-up comedy, television, radio, and digital media. He has performed at major comedy venues in the UK and the United…
Yeah, so I think in hindsight, I'm quite fortunate in that I came out pretty fully formed, by which I mean the tone, or I don't know if tone's the right word, but the type of jokes that I started writing from the start are still the types of jokes that I like today.
It's very necessary for me to have a punchline every 15 seconds maximum, or I don't feel...
And, you know, I remember very early on, I kind of was of the same era starting on the open mic circuit as Rob Beckett and a few others, you know, Romesh and people like that.
And I remember very early on turning up at a gig and Rob was in a kind of around a table of comedians.
At the time, obviously, I was like really, really, you know, in classic kind of imposter syndrome style, I took that really, really badly.
In terms of what I write about, I always start in my own life and then it kind of veers off into a punchline or into something that will surprise, hopefully, and maybe sometimes shock.
But I do, I personally think my jokes are kind of more silly than they are dark in that I think anybody who hopefully understands my persona knows that in reality, what I'm saying is just a bit silly rather than maybe with someone like Jimmy Carr, you just think, oh, he's a dark comic just doing shock stuff.
But I would also, like I said, just I would stick to, you know, some of the stuff that I was writing very early on is... still of a similar ilk to what I kind of end up with
You've got the pun masters, the joke tellers, the storytellers, and I love the off-the-wall comedians, the dark comedy as well.
The punsters, I would say Tim Vine, Darren Walsh is up there, Milton Jones, of course.
Yeah, so I think in hindsight, I'm quite fortunate in that I came out pretty fully formed, by which I mean the tone, or I don't know if tone's the right word, but the type of jokes that I started writing from the start are still the types of jokes that I like today.
It's very necessary for me to have a punchline every 15 seconds maximum, or I don't feel...
And, you know, I remember very early on, I kind of was of the same era starting on the open mic circuit as Rob Beckett and a few others, you know, Romesh and people like that.
And I remember very early on turning up at a gig and Rob was in a kind of around a table of comedians.
At the time, obviously, I was like really, really, you know, in classic kind of imposter syndrome style, I took that really, really badly.
In terms of what I write about, I always start in my own life and then it kind of veers off into a punchline or into something that will surprise, hopefully, and maybe sometimes shock.
But I do, I personally think my jokes are kind of more silly than they are dark in that I think anybody who hopefully understands my persona knows that in reality, what I'm saying is just a bit silly rather than maybe with someone like Jimmy Carr, you just think, oh, he's a dark comic just doing shock stuff.
But I would also, like I said, just I would stick to, you know, some of the stuff that I was writing very early on is... still of a similar ilk to what I kind of end up with
You've got the pun masters, the joke tellers, the storytellers, and I love the off-the-wall comedians, the dark comedy as well.
The punsters, I would say Tim Vine, Darren Walsh is up there, Milton Jones, of course.
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