I’m seeing several Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) shows this year. I’ve bought tickets to 14 shows so far and have another 3 or so that I’d like to go to based on being flyered to when I was in the city for the first two shows I saw on the 28th March. See above for my, I don’t really want to call them reviews because, well reviews carry weight and I don't want to be unfavourable. So they're commentaries, the impressions they left, a skimming of analysis.
Listening to podcasts has been a major contributor to me seeing various comedians and going to podcast recordings this year, in previous years I've seen a few people but never the amount that I’m seeing this year.
It’s thanks primarily to podcasts like TOFOP/FOFOP, Can You Take This Photo Please, The Little Dum Dum Club, I Love Green Guide Letters, The Shelf, Slapbang Radio and Something for the Drive Home that have made me want to see more comedy.
I also have a better appreciation for what work goes into producing a show and the work that it takes to promote it and other things like that.
For example I would not be as interested in Tommy Dassalo's Spread, which I first heard him talking about on The Little Dum Dum Club podcast that he does with Karl Chandler, when he first mentioned it I thought it sounded fascinating and funny and as a result was a show that I made sure to be on the top of my list of shows to book.
Justin Hamilton’s Can You Take This Photo Please podcast has also really enlightened me on the process of creating a comedy festival show and all the issues that are associated with it. It’s also given me a new perspective on the people handing out flyers (or flyering, which my word processor is insisting isn’t a word). As a result I am much more aware of the people flyering when I'm walking along the street past the Melbourne Town Hall. I’ve taken the time to read their flyers think about it and sometimes hand it back and say why I wouldn’t go.
Some of the MICF shows I’m seeing this year, are as a result of my podcast listening podcast recordings, something I regret not going to last year (and subsequently missing out on the SuperPod recording of TOFOP). Though I missed it to get my dad along to see A Modern Deception (magic and comedy), which was worth it to get him into the CBD at night and have a night out of fun and magically appearing bowling balls.
This year I’ve decided to go to a I Love Green Guide Letters podcast recording, 2 out of the 3 The Little Dum Dum Club podcast recordings and both of the Splendid Chaps podcast recordings. The latter I’ve already attended 2 recordings of. It’s a Doctor Who podcast which they’re doing throughout the year and I only missed the third because it was in Adelaide.
So I definitely think these free podcasts that comedians put out has made me want to go out and see more comedy and it’s also made me appreciate comedy a lot more.
Listening to podcasts has been a major contributor to me seeing various comedians and going to podcast recordings this year, in previous years I've seen a few people but never the amount that I’m seeing this year.
It’s thanks primarily to podcasts like TOFOP/FOFOP, Can You Take This Photo Please, The Little Dum Dum Club, I Love Green Guide Letters, The Shelf, Slapbang Radio and Something for the Drive Home that have made me want to see more comedy.
I also have a better appreciation for what work goes into producing a show and the work that it takes to promote it and other things like that.
For example I would not be as interested in Tommy Dassalo's Spread, which I first heard him talking about on The Little Dum Dum Club podcast that he does with Karl Chandler, when he first mentioned it I thought it sounded fascinating and funny and as a result was a show that I made sure to be on the top of my list of shows to book.
Justin Hamilton’s Can You Take This Photo Please podcast has also really enlightened me on the process of creating a comedy festival show and all the issues that are associated with it. It’s also given me a new perspective on the people handing out flyers (or flyering, which my word processor is insisting isn’t a word). As a result I am much more aware of the people flyering when I'm walking along the street past the Melbourne Town Hall. I’ve taken the time to read their flyers think about it and sometimes hand it back and say why I wouldn’t go.
Some of the MICF shows I’m seeing this year, are as a result of my podcast listening podcast recordings, something I regret not going to last year (and subsequently missing out on the SuperPod recording of TOFOP). Though I missed it to get my dad along to see A Modern Deception (magic and comedy), which was worth it to get him into the CBD at night and have a night out of fun and magically appearing bowling balls.
This year I’ve decided to go to a I Love Green Guide Letters podcast recording, 2 out of the 3 The Little Dum Dum Club podcast recordings and both of the Splendid Chaps podcast recordings. The latter I’ve already attended 2 recordings of. It’s a Doctor Who podcast which they’re doing throughout the year and I only missed the third because it was in Adelaide.
So I definitely think these free podcasts that comedians put out has made me want to go out and see more comedy and it’s also made me appreciate comedy a lot more.