Biography of Barbara Sehr

A Six-Foot-Tall Teller of Tall Tales

For a tall woman, big hair looks natural, doesn't it? Barbara has entertained comedy club audiences since January 2005..

Barbara may not have always been Barbara…but she has always been funny — even before she unveiled her memorable signature line at her first stand-up appearance in Stu Stuart’s Big Show at Seattle’s Comedy Underground in January 2005.

Barbara is all sugar and spice — everything G-rated nice — with an occasional puppy dog tail thrown in for old-time’s sake.

Yes, she’s looked at love from both sides now, but her political humor is definitely blue-state without the blues. She is a six-foot tall teller of tall tales and short one-liners. She is a wide-screen stage presence, with a passion for ending narrow-mindedness.

In her brief stand-up career she has already performed with the likes of Cathy Sorbo, Denny Johnston, Brooks Macbeth, Ty Barnett, Chris Alpine, Amy Alpine, Auggie Smith, Duane Goad, and Jen Kober. She has toured through New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. She has twice showcased at Judy Carter’s California Comedy Conference in Palm Springs.

She was interviewed live in Hollywood in February 2007 by Kent Emmons on Comedy Countdown, a weekly show on XM Satellite’s National Lampoon Radio. At the same time, she auditioned for NBC’s Last Comic Standing.

Barbara is an experienced writer and journalist, currently writing blogs and technical articles for Microsoft and other high tech companies. She has been a newspaper reporter and computer magazine editor — an observer of history in the making. She is the only known journalist to interview Bill Gates as both a male and female reporter.

In 1980 she began the industry’s first computer humor column in Computer System News, after successfully creating a regular political humor column in the Vallejo (California) Times-Herald. In 1997, she created Political Humor from About.com, which has today become the largest treasury of political humor on the Internet.

Her sense of humor helped senior citizens make the transition to sending email and surfing the net when she was content manager for a short-lived dot.com dedicated to aging users. In 2000, Barbara won several rounds of Toastmasters International Humorous Speech competitions leading up to the Western Washington finals. That performance was repeated in 2004 and again in 2005. She placed second in the District 2 (Western Washington) Toastmaster competition in 2005.

It’s tough being a woman in this world. As many of you know the President of Harvard University recently said women are just not biologically equipped for math. In a poll afterward, 30 percent of women say Mr. Summers is all wrong. The other 80 percent of us…. .. are happy that Mr. Summers lives in Massachusetts and can marry a man.
Ha Ha Sisterhood, 2005