The Mercury, Hobart 27/02/2003
Good GUD, it's cabaret
By GENEVIEVE READ
THE host of Good News Week and the angry one from the Doug Anthony Allstars is surprisingly just the one man -- Paul McDermott.
He is on his way to Tasmania this weekend with his show GUD which fuses the talents of Mick Moriarty on guitar and Cameron Bruce on keyboard.
GUD was named after a night spent watching the US Grammy Awards.
``It was the night before we had to put in a name to the Melbourne Comedy Festival brochure and we were watching the winners make their speeches at the Grammys,'' McDermott said.
``Every second American said the would like to thank Gud -- there you go.''
GUD ``hardcore cabaret'' was one of the hottest tickets at Melbourne's International Comedy Festival in April last year and started selling out until it was standing room only.
The show takes on topics as diverse as advice for children, modern fashion, 21st century parenting and Australian folk heroes -- to name a few.
``This show is more political, we're living in political times,'' McDermott said.
``There are plenty of scandalous comments, it's also about some bizarre cultural things.''
Including women's hipster jeans.
``I mean, how low are they getting? Unless you're shaven catwalk fluff, not a lot of ladies suit that look,'' he said.
``It's a little unsettling to see a thong leaping out of there.''
Children are not spared in the show either, with some stern advice from the comic.
``A lot of young people are going their own way and we'd like to bring them back,'' McDermott said.
``We'd like to ensure a better generation of people -- learned from a lifetime of pain and failure.''
GUD is on at the Theatre Royal this Saturday at 8.30pm. Tickets are $32.50 and $27.50 concession. |