Jenny Wynter
The Pun 2006 Interviews »
Since its inception in 2001, The Crew has performed over two-hundred shows, seen its members proceed to successful performing careers and in the process established itself as the longest running and most successful weekly improv show in Australia.
But this is hardly the time to get lazy.
‘We’ve spent the majority of the last four years doing short-form, which is often described as ‘jumping through hoops for the audience’,’ says Rob Lloyd, The Crew’s Artistic Director. ‘Then late last year we decided to use 2005 to explore new and challenging forms of …
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
Ah, ‘The Glass House’. Cool format, very cool guests and, of course, very cool Hughesy – my favourite. Seriously, the guy has just got his comic shtick down so perfectly that he can utter one word and have people convulsing with reckless abandon. The guests included Cal Wilson, David O’Doherty, Jason Byrne, Lehmo and Akmal Saleh, plus a couple of breakfast radio chicks’whose obvious experience in having to be assertive in getting a word in amongst very talkative guys seemed to hold them in good stead.
I don’t mean to generalise …
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
Everybody loves Hughesy. Even Hughesy.
Thankfully, he balances this with the healthy dose of good old-fashioned self-deprecation bordering on self-loathing that we’ve all grown to know and love. And if that ain’t Aussie, then I’ll eat my corkscrew hat.
Hughesy Rides Again is Hughesy at his borderline defamatory best’managing to walk the fine line between edgy and offensive thanks to a masterful ability to apologise (turning the hand-over-giggling-face manoeuvre into an art form).
With his trademark throwaway phrases thrown in to the mix (Surely, in the Dave Hughes guide to comedy would be …
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