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 [...]
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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 The Pun 2007
I don’t get this show.
On the one hand, it features three highly polished, superbly entertaining burlesque performances. On the other hand, these are couched within a plodding, cringe-worthy panel-style show complete with fading rock star jokes and mullet wigs. One minute we’re sucked in by a striptease, the next we’re [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]