Emma Sartori
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Depression tends to be a topic constantly in the news and yet still a topic that no-one really wants to talk about – let alone joke about. That’s all set to change with Jeff Hewitt at the helm of a new show called Reacharounds For The Soul. Hewitt deftly talks about his battle with depression, first diagnosed when he was twenty two, and how he now feels like a “Eurasian phoenix rising from the ashes.”
A little bit slow to get started, the show picks up as Hewitt blithely relives …
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Hands up who likes their job? Or perhaps the right question to ask is who doesn’t like their job? Ben Lomas doesn’t and it seems it doesn’t matter what he does to get fired (like making fun of one colleague throughout the last festival), it just doesn’t work. Salary And Sacrifice delves into office politics and hilariously makes fun of the characters, good and irritating, he comes into contact with on a daily basis.
A town planner by day, Ben Lomas’ office hours are consumed with photocopying and just generally …
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Advertised as the best new acts in Australia, the four acts that make up the show The Comedy Zone: Bottle Rockets are wildly uneven in talent and charisma.
Neil Sinclair was the first to bound on stage, he was clearly pumped for a great set and while the audience certainly warmed to his obviously fun-loving personality straight away (and seemed like they wanted to laugh), it just didn’t happen – snail jokes just aren’t funny.
Laura Davis was up next and looked uncomfortable from the word go. She stumbled through her jokes, …
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Terry North seems like a good, old-fashioned bloke. He’s easygoing, and a bit like your favourite uncle, really. But unfortunately, that doesn’t make someone funny. Terry North has been described as hilarious, and while I found him to be delightful, I didn’t find him hilarious. Maybe it’s the different generations we come from, maybe it was the talkative and irritating drunk in the audience, but It All Points North had headed south by the end of the show.
Jumping up on stage with the ease and confidence of someone who’s done …
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Weird, wacky and wonderful are just three ways to describe The Pajama Men and their new show Versus vs Versus. Comprised of Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez, and musically accompanied by Luminous Craft (Dominick Campbell), The Pajama Men dominate the stage with their slapstick comedy theatre.
Together they weave an intriguing tale of romance and mystery with characters including two Roman soldiers setting off to rescue a princess, a father and daughter on the run from committing murder, a husband and wife with marriage troubles, new-age healers looking for converts and …
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What do you get when you cross Harry Potter with KD Lang? Aaron Keefe! Ok, ok bad joke (and if you go see the show I promise you’ll get it), but seriously now, the impish comedian who brought us It’s Not You, It’s Me is back with the sequel, It’s Not You, It’s Me…Too!
Wanting to explore how his life has changed since the first show, Aaron again delves into his ex-girlfriend’s answers as to what exactly he did wrong during their relationship, to see whether he’s done anything in reply. …
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You know you’re in for a night of laughs when the setting for a show is a classroom and the smooth tunes of Salt ‘N’ Pepa’s Let’s Talk About Sex opens the show. Enter the charming Mark Butler and you’ll be wishing you really were back at school in a class on human reproduction with him standing at the blackboard.
Taking on the role of an incompetent Catholic school teacher, Butler cheekily navigates his way through what many would consider to be an embarrassing and dangerous topic: sex. And not just …
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Greg Fleet has been around the block a few times, he’s done every medium imaginable including stand-up comedy, television, film and radio, plus he’s even written a book. And while Fleety is a widely lauded Australian comedian I must admit I’d never heard of him or any of his comic musings before Where’s My Pony? However, that didn’t stop me from finding him rather amusing, and if anything has now made me curious about the other shows he’s done.
Recalling twenty-one comedy festivals, Greg Fleet presents a ‘best of’ type show …
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Russell Kane is a little bit like a kid with ADHD. Gaping Flaws pokes fun at the imperfections in British people, why they revel in all things negative and odd, and how they deal with it. Had a bad day? Let’s go to the pub. Happiness. Broke your leg? Let’s go to the pub. Happiness. From cringe-worthy jokes about his grandparents having sex to the comparisons of Americans and Brits, nothing is sacred and everything is funny, helped by the fact that Kane bounces around the stage like he’s on …
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While you may not recognise him, or be able to pronounce his last name, Matt Dyktynski is a seasoned performer: He is an actor (appearing in films and favourite Australian TV shows such as Blue Heelers and The Secret Life of Us) and a comedian. As the latter though, he misses the mark a little bit.
Afraid…Very Afraid is supposed to be about breaking free from all the things thrown at us that are supposed to scare us, like constant terror threats, old and new diseases, the global financial crisis, and …
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