I figured we needed a review thread, and since I went to the Gala last night, I thought I'd kick it off with a quick run-down.
It was pretty good. Vodafone Arena is not the worst of the arena style venues in which to perform comedy.
Paul hosted, and that was a little fucked up. Cam was in the band at the start, and Mick appeared later with Phil Nicol *G* Oh, and see if you can pick which tv show theme gets reprised a little in the opening song.
In alphabetical order:
Arj Barker - I'm not a huge fan, but I think there was one joke of his that really made me laugh.
Charlie Pickering - "Ditch the manboobs" routine, and some anti-women's-mags material. Good stuff. Looking forward to the show.
Corinne Grant - She's growing on me again. She always looks MUCH happier when she's not being required to wear a dress and bleach her hair to straw.
Dave Hughes - A little new stuff at last. But I don't care if he is cranky, dammit.
David O'Doherty - Text messages and a song about banging *G* Keyboard comedy of the adorkably cheesy variety *G*
Dave Thornton - I didn't know him, but I liked what I saw.
Des Bishop - Mildly concerning. American-Irish-Catholic-ex-drinker. But funny.
Fiona O'Loughlin - She's going through "The Change". I MUST take my mother to see her in Sydney. Always a strong performer.
Frank Woodley - Pappy's guitar mixed with some random comedy songs. Col was in the audience *G*
Glenn Wool - Went to AA *larfs* Drunken Glenn has done many things, but it's all Sober Glenn's fault *g* Filthy, filthy man, and very fun.
Jason Byrne - I don't know if the guy from the crowd was a plant or not, but Jason's props and guests meant that I didn't care. Hilarious.
Jeff Green - A few hints of possibly new material, but it might have just been old material re-worked. Funny, but familiar.
Julia Morris - Wants to be Jeannie Little, by the sounds of things.
Kristen Schaal - Just, don't even ask. She's a horse.
Mark Watson - Discussion of Australian terms that can confuse an innocent European *G*
Nina Conti - Filthy, filthy monkey puppet and ventriloquism. With a very, very clever twist. I might actually go see her now.
Phil Nichol - A song about stalkers *G* and how he might be gay and just not know it.
Reginald D Hunter - American guy from the south. A little odd at times, but agreeably filthy *G*
Rove McManus - Rove being Rove *shrugs*
Spamalot - the closer. A very familiar song with choreography *G*
Sean Choolburra - It doesn't matter if you're American or Aboriginal, "blacks do this but whites do this" is hack unless it's done very, very well.
Stephen K Amos - I like Stephen and his confused face, and his Coon jokes are always good *g*
Tom Gleeson - Getting gradually ever more bald. And quite prepared to acknowledge it. Still funny, though. Camping in Tassie? Not a wise move *G*
Tripod - Thursday night! So not-rock *G*
Umbilical Brothers - "Can I have 20c?" window washer. These guys are just awesome at what they do.
Shane Warne the Musical - "What an SMS (ess-em-ess) I'm in" is one of the worst musical puns ever. I love it *G*
Wil Anderson - He's growing on me again, now that I've taken a good long break from his humour, but I'm still a little dubious.
Ted appeared to have managed to get his silver shit into the air conditioning. It SNOWED little bits of glitter *g* It was hilarious and cool *g* Where does he GET that shit?? *G* |