The Pun

Crossing the border under the cover of darkness

By admin ⋅ April 23, 2007 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

It’s a well-known fact that every year a billion people attend the Melbourne Intergalactic Comedy Festival.Ôø?Ôø? They come in their millions by plane, boat, gyrocopter and segue.Ôø?Ôø? Speaking of segues: the three boys from Hooray for Everything aren’t one.

Matt, Phil and Stevie D left Brisbane by car at six on Sunday morning.Ôø?Ôø? (Imagine how early that would have been had daylight saving still been on! Well…It would have still been six in the morning’Brisbane is already too far behind the times to put their clocks back any further.) With 24 hours of driving ahead of them, they raced against the clock to make it to Melbourne in time for their favourite TV show ‘The Biggest-Dancing-Celebrity-Idol-Dog-School’.

Devastated by the news of its cancellation (It was replaced with reruns of the 1984 season of ‘Big Brother’.). Hooray’ stopped over in Sydney for the night, planning to enjoy the cities beautiful nightscape.Ôø?Ôø? Unbeknownst to them, the Government, under pressure from Sandra Sully, had reached a plea bargain with eco-terrorists: one night with the lights out for the head of Tim Flannery.

So under the cover of darkness, Andrew Bolt took another life. For the first time ever, there was not much of Flannery left and Bolt was not in the right.

Hooray’ high-tailed it out of Sydney faster than real estate capital. Twelve hours later, they finally arrived in Melbourne to find they’d missed the flower show.Ôø?Ôø? Stricken with grief, they went to Trades Hall, their venue for the festival, only to be accosted under a bridge on Lygon Street by a restaurateur who wouldn’t let them pass until they’d ‘eaten these pizzas three’.

Escaping with their lives and a delicious calzone, they scraped themselves into their home for the month, share-housing with fellow Brisbane comedians Fiona McGary and Josh Thomas

by Matt from Hooray for Everything