Celeste Barber
Who Celeste Barber is
Celeste Barber is an Australian comedian, actor and writer, billed as the 'Australian Queen of Comedy', whose celebrity-parody Instagram account has more than 9.7 million followers. A RAW Comedy state finalist at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2015, she premiered her one-woman show Celeste Barber Challenge Accepted! in Sydney in June 2017, took it to three sell-out seasons in the United States, Montreal's Just for Laughs in 2019 and the United Kingdom and Europe, and recorded her first Showtime special at her New York show.
Her stand-up show Celeste Barber: Fine, Thanks toured Australia, New Zealand, the US and Europe in 2022 and 2023 and was filmed at the Sydney Opera House for Netflix, and she followed it with Celeste Barber: Backup Dancer from 2024. She starred in Netflix's Wellmania and in The Letdown, her memoir Challenge Accepted! was shortlisted for the ABIA Biography Book of the Year in 2019, and her track Allowed/Not Allowed was played on SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel in January 2025.
At a glance
- Stand-up specials
- Fine, Thanks and Showtime special
- Podcasts
- Celeste & Her Best
- Books
- Challenge Accepted!, Celeste the Giraffe Loves to Laugh and Flamingo Celeste Is Not Like the Rest
- On screen
- Wellmania, The Letdown, #CelesteChallengeAccepted and 10 more
- Official site
- celestebarber.com ↗
On stage
No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: celestebarber.com ↗.
Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →
Specials, shows and podcasts
Stand-up specials
- Fine, Thanks Sydney Opera House; Netflix, 2023
- Showtime special recorded at her New York show of Celeste Barber Challenge Accepted!
On screen
- Wellmania Liv Healy, Netflix
- The Letdown Barb, ABC / Netflix
- #CelesteChallengeAccepted
- The Way We Wore ABC
- Colin From Accounts series 2, Binge
- All Saints Bree Matthews, 2005–2009
- The Matty Johns Show sketch writer and performer
- How Not to Behave 2015
- Have You Been Paying Attention? panellist
- Studio 10 co-host
- Back to the Outback Skylar, voice, film, 2021
- Seriously Red Teeth, film, 2022
- Runt Susie Shearer, film, 2024
Podcasts
- Celeste & Her Best podcast
Books and writing
- Challenge Accepted! book, 2018
- Celeste the Giraffe Loves to Laugh book, 2019
- Flamingo Celeste Is Not Like the Rest book, 2021
Comedians like Celeste Barber
Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town.
- David Correos also in Have You Been Paying Attention?
- Dilruk Jayasinha also in Have You Been Paying Attention?
- Jack Ansett also in Have You Been Paying Attention?
- Melanie Bracewell also in Have You Been Paying Attention?
Their stand-up
Celeste Barber trained in acting at the University of Western Sydney's Theatre Nepean, graduating in 2002, and first became known as paramedic Bree Matthews on All Saints from 2005 to 2009; she began recreating celebrity photos on Instagram in January 2015 under the hashtag #celestechallengeaccepted.
Her picture book Flamingo Celeste Is Not Like the Rest, illustrated by Heath McKenzie, was shortlisted for the picture book prize at the 2022 West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards.
Career timeline
- 2005All Saints (Bree Matthews, 2005–2009) On screen
- 2015How Not to Behave (2015) On screen
- 2018Challenge Accepted! (book, 2018) Book
- 2019Celeste the Giraffe Loves to Laugh (book, 2019) Book
- 2021Back to the Outback (Skylar, voice, film, 2021) On screen
- 2021Flamingo Celeste Is Not Like the Rest (book, 2021) Book
- 2022Seriously Red (Teeth, film, 2022) On screen
- 2023Fine, Thanks (Sydney Opera House; Netflix, 2023) Special
- 2024Runt (Susie Shearer, film, 2024) On screen
Questions and answers
Where is Celeste Barber performing next?
No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: celestebarber.com ↗.
What stand-up specials have they released?
Fine, Thanks and Showtime special.
What podcasts have they been on?
Celeste & Her Best.
Have they written a book?
Yes:Challenge Accepted!, Celeste the Giraffe Loves to Laugh and Flamingo Celeste Is Not Like the Rest.
What TV shows and films are they in?
Wellmania, The Letdown, #CelesteChallengeAccepted, The Way We Wore, Colin From Accounts and All Saints, among 13 credits.
Who are some comedians like them?
David Correos (also in Have You Been Paying Attention?), Dilruk Jayasinha (also in Have You Been Paying Attention?), Jack Ansett (also in Have You Been Paying Attention?) and Melanie Bracewell (also in Have You Been Paying Attention?).
The full SUCDb record
The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.
Sources
- Official site (Meet Celeste) ↗ Actress, writer, comedian; 'Australian Queen of Comedy'; over 9.7 million Instagram followers; Variety's 10 Comics to Watch (2019); MICF Raw Comedy state…
- xmplaylist - Raw Comedy newest tracks (Internet Archive capture, 13 January 2025) ↗ Allowed/Not Allowed, Celeste Barber, played on Raw Comedy on 12 January 2025 (as of 8 October 2026)
- Wikipedia ↗ Theatre Nepean training, graduating 2002; All Saints (Bree Matthews, 2005–2009); The Matty Johns Show; How Not to Behave (2015); Have You Been Paying…
Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 8 October 2026