Published in The Pun, Issue 3, 2006
Question: what if Australia’s pre-eminent political comedian, described by The Age as ‘a living Melbourne treasure’, were charged as a terrorist? It could happen. Last week Rod Quantock hosted The Inaugural Golden Guy Fawkes Award, in which local and international comedians competed for the ‘Comedian Most Likely to [...]
Archive for April, 2006
Published in The Pun, Issue 3, April 2006
To anyone who has ever ‘solved’ a Rubik’s cube by peeling off the stickers and rearranging them – go to Lawrence Leung’s show, The Marvellous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy. Lawrence has spent the last twenty years trying to learn the secret behind solving the iconic 80s puzzle toy. [...]
Published in The Pun, Issue 2, 2006
LaLaLuna is the story of the night the light went out in the moon, and its caretaker, played by Wolfe Bowart of The Schneedles, had to find a way to defy gravity and replace the bulb. During his quest, though, Bowart (equal parts mime, magician, acrobat and clown) [...]
Published in The Pun, Issue 1, 2006
You’ll need to do some preparation before you go see Damien Callinan has Spaznuts. First of all, don’t ejaculate for three days before the show – as Callinan points out, it can spoil the sample. Second, do some research and come prepared with a few euphemisms for testicles to [...]
Published in The Pun, Issue 1, 2006
Penny Tangey’s comedy has grown up a bit since I last saw her. Where she used to draw heavily on her Grade 6 diary for material, Tangey has now turned her attention to high school and taken on the character of 15-year-old Kathy Smith. Her performance style has matured [...]