Published on RHUM.org.au April 2011
Australia is over fourteen thousand kilometres away from the United States. Travel from one to the other takes around a day. And Melbourne is a city without a harbour bridge or an opera house. I mean, where is Melbourne, anyway?
Are these the barriers that keep young and emerging [...]
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Published on RHUM.org.au April 2010
It’s a brave comedian that takes on two full shows in the one comedy festival, but late at night, in a tiny room at Trades Hall, Lou Sanz and Claire Hooper do just that. I’m here to report that The Sandz and Hopper Show is a slice of fried gold.
Under a [...]
Published on RHUM.org.au April 2010
It’s a shame that Stand Up and Be Counted: Knows No Boundaries was a one-night-only affair, because it was a ripper. Over two hours (and a bit), six female comedians brought the house down.
First up Melinda Buttle gave us a cracking impersonation of her ex-Navy Dad’s encounter with a beggar in [...]
Published on The Pun, 12 April 2010
American business guru Tom Peters says that the secret to success is to ‘under promise and over deliver’. Funny Irishman and tiny Yamaha keyboard guru David O’Doherty appears to subscribe to this advice.
His first song for the evening instructs the audience to ‘please lower your expectations’. Then he tells [...]
Published on The Pun, 30 March 2010
When it comes to self-deprecating humour, Felicity Ward can deprecate with the best of them. Her performance at last year’s MICF, Felicity Ward’s Ugly as a Child Variety Show, contained a liberal sprinkling of anecdotes about her idiotic misadventures. This year she cracks open the Book of Moron, a [...]
Published on The Pun, 29 March 2010
The unofficial title of Reginald D. Hunter’s show is Trophy Nigga, owing to the media’s habit of booking him for commentary only when race-related issues are in the news. His response to such requests is to insist that he be introduced as ‘Reginald – King of the Blacks!’, which [...]
Published on The Pun, 29 March 2010
Born in Egypt, brought up in Sydney and banned in Rockhampton, Akmal Saleh’s stand-up show It’s Not My Fault is based on extracts from his recently-published memoir, The Life of Akmal. Musings on being raised in the Coptic Orthodox Church, battling through ‘special English’ class as a new Australian, [...]
Published on The Pun, 22 April 2009
Ben Darsow has aspirations to be one of the world’s great supermarket managers. In the meantime, he’s doing stand-up to get by. His show, Connected, is all about plugging in to the flow of life and using it to go for your goals and ‘be the best version of [...]
Published in Beat, Issue 1060, 18 April 2007
Ever wondered what would happen if Tripod died in a horrible accident? Here’s what would happen: the guys from ElbowSkin would sneakily take their place on the throne as Australia’s kings of musical comedy. I can see it now – everyone at home watching the Gala on TV; [...]
Published on Arts Hub, 11 April 2007
How do you celebrate ten years of friendship? A married couple might spend their ten-year anniversary enjoying an expensive dinner, or throwing crockery at each other’s heads. Ten years of service at work might get you a couple of months of long service leave, and possibly a shiny new [...]