Yeah, I know, I'm supposed to be writing my papers. But I got an invite (and a free ticket--who could pass that up?) to a comedy performance tonight, part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival that's going on right now, so I went. All part of the "try everything" game. The guy's name was Andrew McClelland, and his show was called "One Man Stand." My friend Ariel (from my Welcome group) took a comedy workshop with him last week, and he got four free tickets out of it, so he invited me to tag along. It's always good to have a laugh when you're supposed to be hard at work.
The "One Man Stand" consisted of a series of short acts of "different" comedians, all played by Andrew. Irish, "bogan" (a sort of halfway-derogatory 'white trash' term), fat American capitalist, Richard Dawkins, etc.; some were better than others, but I was smiling through the whole thing regardless. My favorite was one where he impersonated a soviet communist comedian--it's funnier than it sounds. The gig went on for about an hour; unfortunately, a lot of the Australian history/pop culture references went over my head, but I could stil tell they were funny (so I laughed). The performance was in the Council Chambers at Melbourne Town Hall, which was pretty cool because I got to sit in a big leather politician-style chair.
There are a few big international names here, like Wanda Sykes, but I won't be around to see any of them. Oh well, that's what YouTube is for.
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