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Bex Lee

Bex Lee has written 7 posts for A New Leaf Media
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Dave Grant: MAN the MYTH

By Bex Lee ⋅ May 9, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

As a well-established Australian comic, Dave Grant owns his stage with an authority that comes from knowing his craft implicitly and his crowd intimately. The bulk of the punters who buy tickets to Dave Grant know what they’re in for: an old-fashioned serve of ‘male’ Aussie humour. This is not to say his line-up is [...]

Jimeon

By Bex Lee ⋅ May 9, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Whilst Jimeoin’s high-profile demands a large venue, there’s always a risk in the Main Town Hall that the dress circle and balcony members will feel like they’re watching from the moon. Comedy always seems to work better in semi intimate venues, especially if there are facial expressions underpinning the jokes. Despite Jimeoin’s charisma, the sheer [...]

160 Characters

By Bex Lee ⋅ May 9, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The concept behind 160 Characters is highly inventive and fundamentally simple: the audience forwards unusual text messages to a phone number on stage, and the improvisers create funny skits from the incoming texts - sketch SMS, if you will. It’s a great strategy for involving the audience and ensuring the content of the show is [...]

Sam Simmon’s: Tales from the Erotic Cat

By Bex Lee ⋅ May 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Get a kick out of illogical humour? Come to Sam Simmons’ show. It’s a one-man tribute to all things absurd, from dramatic cans of tuna to stuffed, talking seagulls. There’s no point trying to connect the dots - it’s a bizarre, non-sequential joyride through the mind of a man who talks to a ficus’a what? [...]

Man Bites God: Choking Hazard

By Bex Lee ⋅ May 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Inadvertently funny and deliberately offensive, this Melbourne based trio is the alternative punter’s Tripod. Don’t be fooled by their clean-cut appearance’Man Bite God are filthy musicians masquerading as melodious nice boys. They put the ‘blue’ in the Blues and triple-handedly turn delightful music into delinquent muck. But it works. It’s giggle-worthy for loyal and virgin [...]

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