Peter Morley didn’t a comedy show (or that toilet thing either)
An online description of Peter Morley’s comedy festival show maintains that last year’s version was a hit thanks to its “amazingly unpredictable nature, with audiences dictating the hilarious shows.”
Herein lies the very substantial problem.
Never in my 20-odd years of live event attendance have I been exposed to a more disgusting accumulation of people than the one that slithered into the covered area of the Queensberry Hotel beer garden on Friday night. To call them an audience would degrade the word – this was an impromptu gathering of human weeds intent on creating a unique brand of excruciatingly tedious mayhem.
Half a dozen fuckwits – old enough to vote, drive and probably have mortgages, and yet capable only of nasal squeaking as if their voices hadn’t yet broken – sat at the back and immediately began to disrupt. Without exception, their verbal interventions were inane, puerile and often nerdishly absurd. Most were imbecilic non-sequiturs, but some were ultra-childish responses to Morley’s unrehearsed performance.
In reply to these, Morley descended to their level.
It’s difficult to know what else he could have done. The obnoxious group made up nearly half the crowd and so weren’t going to be shouted down by others. They also couldn’t be ignored. Worse, at the front of the crowd one of Morley’s friends – drunk and apparently bored – was encouraging the prepubescent thirty year olds to continue with their vulgarity.
So Morley had little option but to get them back on side.
His faltering anecdotes turned into a story about dildos, genitals and mentally retarded children, and even then the lowest common denominator needs of the cretins at the back couldn’t be satiated.
So he descended further and his finale involved the threat of a texta being pushed up a nerd’s anus.
Who knows; maybe tomorrow night’s show will be intellectually-stimulating genius. That’s the risk you’ll take.
I saw this show on the same night at I nearly walked out it was so shit. I get what you mean because most of the audience were horrible but that didn’t mean the comedian had to get so awful. My friend took me because he saw the same guy at the festival last year and he really liked him but this was really horrible. I hope it gets better.
wow, it’s quite refreshing to read an honest review for once, for some reason Australian media and comedy reviewers give the benefit of the doubt to even the most god-awful shows, everyone is so nicey nice about every show that there seems no real point to reading them at all.
Peter Morley is one bad Australian comedian of many, and worse than that, is quite arrogant about it, sounds like he would have been in his element.
yeh, this guy sounds terrible!
I feel as if I should clarify.
Peter Morley was up against the crowd from hell – try to imagine the most objectionable crowd you can bring into your mind without gagging and double it.
I’m not convinced that on another day Morley would be a magnificent performer, but I do know that even the most polished and experienced comedian would have struggled with the imbeciles in the back row.
I don’t know Jonathan. I saw his show last year and it was pretty much the same kind of thing. I wouldn’t go again based on that.
I saw this show and liked it. The audience was friendly and the guy seemed to be really original. You could tell it wasnt scripted. Guess it goes to show it really does depend on the night.
Improvised material is only good if the person performing it is able to control the crowd, which it sounds like this guy is not. In that case he really has nobody to blame but himself.
Hmmmm. I think it really does depend on the audience.
I saw this show last week and it was fantastic. The first half was none of the kind of disgusting that everyone’s referring to, it was just good, clever fun using the audience’s (who were very interested/involved) suggestions to create some weird stories, and then the second was morley telling some very funny stories based on one suggestion. Great and original stuff.
Yeah, it is all about the audience. Sorry to restate the obvious. I don’t see shows like this just because it’s the kind of show that idiots are attracted to. They totally love a show where they think they can get involved lol. No offense to the show itself because I havent seen it.
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