Comedian James Barr: ‘Why attack trans people in your comedy? It’s just lazy humour’

I think James Barr needs a rest. Yes, because he wakes up the nation every morning at 6am on Hits Radio Breakfast alongside Will Best and Fleur East, but also because of everything that happens in between.

There’s his weekly, chart-topping and recent Webby Award-winning podcast A Gay and a Non-Gay, hosted alongside his straight pal, Dan Hudson. Plus his ongoing stand-up comedy show Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex To My Mum), about surviving an abusive relationship, which he’s been performing for the past year, and writing for much longer.

“I’ll probably still be writing it until it’s selling out the Palladium and on Netflix,” he jokes today, though I feel he’s serious. “But, you know, until that point, I think it will still be a work

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