Richard Watts
Charlie Pickering Impractical Jokes
After a traditional start spent padding out the wait for latecomers with some easy laughs generated by jokes about lawyers, ninjas and accidentally fighting for the Taliban, Pickering got stuck into his show proper, which celebrates his love for his father and, specifically, his father’s love of elaborate practical jokes.
Thence followed a long’overly long, judging [...]
Andrea Powell in How Do You Like Your Eggs?
Perhaps best known for her monstrous harridan Ethel Chop, Andrea Powell ensconced on a chair in this simply staged show before an unfortunately small audience.
Just as unfortunate was the fact that my companion Lisa and I decided to sit in the front row, resulting in both of us being roped into the audience participation segments [...]
Amelia Jane Hunter is Keith Flipp (the Girl from Belkondowns Flat)
Amelia Jane Hunter is Keith Flipp (the Girl from Belkondowns Flat) is a darkly comic show bordering on fringe theatre. Despite containing elements of character-based stand-up, the show and Hunter’s larger-than-life character were clearly confrontational for some audience members the night I saw it.
At first glance, Keith Flipp is a drag queen. We soon learn [...]
Alzheimerǃ’s the Musical: A Night to Remember
Alzheimer’s the Musical: A Night to Remember is a three-woman show, performed by Lyn Shakespeare, Maureen Sherlock and Carole Yelland who were the team behind the award-winning Tragic at their Age.
Their latest Melbourne International Comedy Festival show combined sketch comedy with cleverly re-worked songs. For example, the Skyhooks hit ‘Living in the 70s’ was transformed [...]
Adam Richard X
In Adam Richard X, the gay Melbourne comic best known for regular appearances on FoxFM’s ‘Matt and Jo’ breakfast show celebrates his tenth year in stand-up with a brand new show.
Not surprisingly, much of the material covers familiar ground’celebrity gossip, Kylie Minogue, Bindi Irwin and the delicious vapidity of pop culture’essentially, the same topics Adam [...]
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