British comedian Jeff Green met and fell in love with a Melbourne girl at the Comedy Festival ten years ago, so his new show Living the Dream goes well beyond the shallow observational humour about Australia that many UK and US comics employ in their festival acts.

Instead, Green waxes cynical about suburban life in Heidelberg, about visiting Northland Shopping Centre on ‘Ugly Day’ (although I think it’s always Ugly Day at Northland to be honest), and he jokes about his wife and kids in a way that is simultaneously old fashioned yet dry and endearing. Living the Dream is more of an occasional chuckle sort of show rather than constant hilarity, but is still extremely engaging.

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