Australian actress and social media star Celeste Barber is having something of a moment — actually, another moment.
Barber has enjoyed a steady career in Australian TV and comedy for years, but she first exploded into global consciousness in 2015 when she created the Instagram hashtag #CelesteChallengeAccepted, which she used to parody glossy posts of models and celebrities, swapping the pouts and scantily clad poses of the Kardashian-Jenners with more human recreations hilariously starring herself. This instantly relatable critique of social media’s supposedly aspirational — but brutally unrealistic — beauty standards struct a major chord on the platform. Over the intervening years, as Barber has kept posting (she later added video parodies, too), her Instagram following has grown to 9.5 million — more than many of the celebs she initially skewered.
In the wake of her social media success, Barber continued working in Australian television, with well-received supporting roles on shows like How Not to Behave...
Barber has enjoyed a steady career in Australian TV and comedy for years, but she first exploded into global consciousness in 2015 when she created the Instagram hashtag #CelesteChallengeAccepted, which she used to parody glossy posts of models and celebrities, swapping the pouts and scantily clad poses of the Kardashian-Jenners with more human recreations hilariously starring herself. This instantly relatable critique of social media’s supposedly aspirational — but brutally unrealistic — beauty standards struct a major chord on the platform. Over the intervening years, as Barber has kept posting (she later added video parodies, too), her Instagram following has grown to 9.5 million — more than many of the celebs she initially skewered.
In the wake of her social media success, Barber continued working in Australian television, with well-received supporting roles on shows like How Not to Behave...
- 4/25/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Celeste Barber: Fine, thanks is a Netflix stand-up comedy special directed by Catherine Vanderwolf with the great Celeste Barber.
After the success of Wellmania, we see again the charming and wonderful Celeste Barber, this time from the Sydney Opera House, with a devoted audience, with her shorts and, above all, with that naturalness that has conquered thousands of people in Australia and which now, thanks to Netflix, we can enjoy twice over.
If you know her or if you are already fans, you know she is a sweetheart who knows how to find the middle ground between the daring and the inappropriate with a humor that is familiar and at the same time eccentric, always natural, and always “good-vibed”.
A humorist who has accomplished how to “accept herself” in a way that has dazzled many and that, with her good vibes, has made her a star of the small screen.
After the success of Wellmania, we see again the charming and wonderful Celeste Barber, this time from the Sydney Opera House, with a devoted audience, with her shorts and, above all, with that naturalness that has conquered thousands of people in Australia and which now, thanks to Netflix, we can enjoy twice over.
If you know her or if you are already fans, you know she is a sweetheart who knows how to find the middle ground between the daring and the inappropriate with a humor that is familiar and at the same time eccentric, always natural, and always “good-vibed”.
A humorist who has accomplished how to “accept herself” in a way that has dazzled many and that, with her good vibes, has made her a star of the small screen.
- 4/12/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
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