Mythor's book report on The Comedy Festival Gala, by Mythor!
Mr Voiceover Man: Talked like a total wanker idiothead loser AGAIN this year. SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR SNL IMPRESSION. It's shit on SNL and your rendering of it sucks even harder. Idiot.
Tim Minchin: Needs to be loaned a hairbrush. Or a set of clippers. Something.
Oh, wow, how edgy, he said Mohammed! And why does he sing with an American accent?
I assume the "Playstation 3" ("Happy Little African"?) song is one of his normal songs and he just adapted it for the intro of the Gala?
Not off to a good start...
Peter Helliar is the MC... Meh, he'll do. Can see him do this stuff on Rove every week now.
Fairly amusing opening bit about Thorpie not being too manly. Harhar.
Adam Hills: Pretty funny. Fairly laidback presentation of "angry" material. Interesting approach. Good range of jokes and they were well delivered.
David O'Doherty: Can't sing, which I gather is the point. Can't play the piano thing, so why does he have it? Well, because his joke sucks. And he only has the one... And the first time he did the joke was 7 months ago. And that's still all he's got...
Shappi Khorsandi: Uses some old jokes (not her old jokes, just old ones) but with some good twists on them. Iranian she is, apparently. Fairly amusing. Made a good WMD joke I hadn't heard before so that was a bonus.
Dave Hughes: Mostly stuff I hadn't heard and pretty amusing. His usual standup performance, not his "I'M ANGRY" stuff he's been doing on Rove lately.
Russell Howard: Did the Queen postage stamp joke... which he did on Rove the other night too, oops! Was sort of vaguely amusing till he dropped a really great joke out of nowhere really. Pretty good.
Fiona O'Loughlin: Jokes about her kids and being a Mum again, of course. Will she ever run out of material with her little terrors? Pretty funny as usual though so hopefully not!
Ardal O'Hanlon: Pretty funny, good range of material. Well spoken and the accent is fairly mild so he's not incomprehensible...
Keating!: Political Rap? Considering it's about Keating, why is the better rapper playing Hewson? Not that either of them are much chop. The lyrics are somewhat clever but it's not really funny as such.
Jason Byrne: Doing a magic trick? Badly? That's the gag? Very poor and unfunny, which is strange because he has material that's not bad...
Jim Henson Puppet Company: Doing some puppet-y improv. Giggleworthy. Still amazed that the official Muppets people are doing this instead of offshoots like Avenue Q. Some borderline filthy stuff, I gather the proper show has more.
Ed Byrne: Very funny man. Very accurate observations on how annoying women are.
Stephen K Amos: Missed an obvious joke when one of his gags didn't go down too brilliantly. (A joke about the people on the Titanic being in the water and finding out their lifejackets were actually parachutes, which the crowd sort of laughed a little and made the notsoimpressed noise a little... should've followed with, "Too soon?") Was otherwise somewhat amusing, nothing special.
Mark Watson: Started out a bit slow but built up very nicely and was overall really quite funny.
Phil Nichol: Musical number. Would do better as a pure musical act. He might earn a dollar or two on the street as a busker if someone was feeling really generous. An audience member's reaction during the song sums it up best, "What the fuck?!"
Jeff Green: Mildly amusing but nothing special.
Corinne Grant: Talks about boobies and thus wins! Was actually pretty funny, which is unusual for girly material.
Tripod: Yon taking lead vocals? Ooh. Political song that actually manages to be funny as well. Very funny, quite mellow, but funny.
Tom Gleeson: Pretty funny stuff about his time in Iraq and Afghanistan entertaining the troops.
Fleetwood Mick: (Greg Fleet and Mick Moriarty) Not much chop, did have one funny bit but it was mostly just a lame song. Something Mick's had a lot of practice at, I suppose.
Wil Anderson: Oh look, Lleyton Hewitt jokes! A decent one, but he's done a million of them... Then he went for the joke about women in the army and their periods... but went for a joke I hadn't heard, to my surprise. And then did the usual joke as well that a million people have done before, including himself, on TV. Sigh. Some fairly funny other jokes too but using that women in the army joke really killed the routine.
Tim Minchin and Peter Helliar do the closing musical number. "Fuck The Poor"? On a show fundraising for OxFam? Classy.
... and that was it? Glitter cannons went off after the very reserved song. What happened to the big closing number? Lame.
Oh and we got yet another Big Brother promo during the credits, like there wasn't 74 billion other ones aired tonight...
Fairly weak Gala over all. Disappointing.
