Brianna Summers
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The comic material for Evan Jones’ show writes itself, as the man’s life is so full of bizarre shit that he need only relay it to an audience to achieve stand-up success. Jones’ real-life experiences, festooned with oddities and hilarity as they are, no doubt fuelled the creative presentation of his show.
His performance is an interactive game, where he tells eight tall tales and the audience is encouraged to guess which is a massive lie. As the show progresses, he records the crowd’s speculation on a faux blackboard with liquid …
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Polycomic’s offer of three comedians for the price of one is a bargain that would make Dimmeys proud. Not two, but three likely lads make up a local laughter deal that simply won’t last. Just like a factory direct outlet, Polycomic is cheap, and although it contains lots of outdated fashion, there are still hot items to be found.
Direct from his day job at a paint store, Ian Messig plays MC to Cameron Marshall and Karl Chandler in a tiny theatrette at Loop bar. The show is very DIY, as …
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Sedition is a topic ripe for comic exploitation. What’s not funny about lengthy and complex legislation designed to curtail our freedom of expression? It’s got ‘comedy gold’ stamped all over it in red bureaucratic ink. Well, Wendy Little certainly thinks so.
In her one-woman show Limited Sedition, Little bounds around a cluttered stage filled with props and costumes as she attempts to bring the Seven Acts of Sedition to life. She forecasts the impact of the new laws, before detailing how best to break them in public, and preferably while wearing …
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If you’ve ever considered therapeutic surgery to overcome your low self-esteem, or caught your arm in the fridge door of a car door’you’re probably a bit weird. You will also probably love A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished. Three men, a keyboard, and a host of sound effects expel a truly twisted, black sense of humour as they calmly but deliberately dissect the consumer culture status quo.
Borrowing from TV gameshows, advertising, news bulletins, talkback radio and magazine horoscopes, Porthole woos its complacent audience before pulling an oversized metaphorical …
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When host Marcus Jones bounded on stage to warm up the audience with a few ballsack jokes, he set the comedy bar pretty low. Yes, late night comedy does tend towards the cheap and smutty end of the spectrum, but I held out hope that things would improve once the game began. My optimism was unforgivingly shattered as Hoodwinked, a so-called ‘cross between ‘Blankety Blanks’, ‘Spicks & Specks’ and nothing else you’ve ever seen (!!!!) – got underway with all the energy of a wet blanket.
The ‘all-star rotating panel’ looked …
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