FanFiction Comedy (3)
20th April 2013
This was my third FanFiction Comedy show.
First thing to note all the guys seemed to have decided to grow a bit of stubble, maybe because it's the end of the festival they're just not bothering as much to groom as much.
Their two special guests had left the last show quickly to get to this one, I know this because I was at that last show. Yes, again the special guests went from one show to another; Sam Simmons and Wil Anderson. Wil also is the producer of FanFiction Comedy.
Wil also said he wasn't actually going to be on in this show, so spent most of the show out the back writing his fic.
Eli wasn't hosting which was interesting, I thought he always hosted, though according to a tweet he doesn't always host. He’d hosted the previous two shows I went to.
He did however do a marvellous fanfic song about the two Velociraptors in Jurassic Park. Doing two different voices and playing on a ukulele.
Tom Furniss' was fairly dark Edward Scissorhands, but it was ‘Edwardo Plughands’ in an Amish Village, it was actually quite dark with a little bit a humour and some gruesome bits thrown in.
Heidi's was a "Honeyboo" (one of those hateful child pageant sort of reality shows) meets, quite unexpectedly Harry Potter. Which also veered into a bit of black comedy. Although I find the whole concept of those child pageant things a bit dark / black comedy styled.
Joseph Moore wrote of a young James Bond, sort of Skyfall but a school formal. It was less weird than my last Skyfall meets the MICF encounter, though I don't think anything could be that weird. It was very well written, paced out and stylised really well. He painted a detailed scene where everything was brilliantly described, funny and just a brilliant piece of work. Kinda made me think of "School of Thrones”, a webseries on YouTube.
Sam Simmons, once again was the guest who didn't seem to get the idea of fan fiction. Writing a fic that was about a fan of a show rather than using the universe/characters or something similar to write a tale of your own.
It was quite dark, all about a maths obsessed fan of Millionaire Hotseat who's on the train and then sees a woman who he's admired before and she gets off at a different station, but this time gets off at his station. He takes that as a sign that she is a fan of millionaire hotseat and decides to run after her – Because she's obviously his true love. And then after some running he crash tackles her to tell her of his/their love of Millionaire Hotseat. And she cries rape and something about liking Deal of No Deal.
According to Sam it all made sense last night when he'd had a spliff (spliff is not the word he used but I can't remember what word he did use).
Finally Wil's story, hastily written was about The Voice. (It is on his Tumblr and you can read it here)
Set in the future, though not as far forward as Cal Wilson's story that I'd seen in a previous show.
This one was all about the judges and Benji and Joel Madden and Seal who is an actual seal and Ricky Martin and.... well I've never watched a whole episode of The Voice I've probably seen about 10 minutes in total.
Wil did manage to get Batman into his story, bringing him into it as a contestant on the show.
I’ve not re-read Wil’s story to write up this review/commentary of my experience because there’s a difference between watching him read and perform it and me reading it and considering it as a piece of written fanfic.
I have to praise the Heidi O’Loughlin, Eli Matthewson, Joseph Harper, Tom Furniss, Steven Boyce and Joseph Moore who are the New Zealand cast of people who make up Fan Fiction Comedy. Writing and performing a piece of fanfics with only 4 days between and 3 shows each time (they had shows on Saturday, Sunday and Monday) it something. Being able to create something that is funny, creative and still true to the universes that they’re playing around with shows great talent. I have ended the comedy festival wishing I’d seen more of their shows this year.
20th April 2013
This was my third FanFiction Comedy show.
First thing to note all the guys seemed to have decided to grow a bit of stubble, maybe because it's the end of the festival they're just not bothering as much to groom as much.
Their two special guests had left the last show quickly to get to this one, I know this because I was at that last show. Yes, again the special guests went from one show to another; Sam Simmons and Wil Anderson. Wil also is the producer of FanFiction Comedy.
Wil also said he wasn't actually going to be on in this show, so spent most of the show out the back writing his fic.
Eli wasn't hosting which was interesting, I thought he always hosted, though according to a tweet he doesn't always host. He’d hosted the previous two shows I went to.
He did however do a marvellous fanfic song about the two Velociraptors in Jurassic Park. Doing two different voices and playing on a ukulele.
Tom Furniss' was fairly dark Edward Scissorhands, but it was ‘Edwardo Plughands’ in an Amish Village, it was actually quite dark with a little bit a humour and some gruesome bits thrown in.
Heidi's was a "Honeyboo" (one of those hateful child pageant sort of reality shows) meets, quite unexpectedly Harry Potter. Which also veered into a bit of black comedy. Although I find the whole concept of those child pageant things a bit dark / black comedy styled.
Joseph Moore wrote of a young James Bond, sort of Skyfall but a school formal. It was less weird than my last Skyfall meets the MICF encounter, though I don't think anything could be that weird. It was very well written, paced out and stylised really well. He painted a detailed scene where everything was brilliantly described, funny and just a brilliant piece of work. Kinda made me think of "School of Thrones”, a webseries on YouTube.
Sam Simmons, once again was the guest who didn't seem to get the idea of fan fiction. Writing a fic that was about a fan of a show rather than using the universe/characters or something similar to write a tale of your own.
It was quite dark, all about a maths obsessed fan of Millionaire Hotseat who's on the train and then sees a woman who he's admired before and she gets off at a different station, but this time gets off at his station. He takes that as a sign that she is a fan of millionaire hotseat and decides to run after her – Because she's obviously his true love. And then after some running he crash tackles her to tell her of his/their love of Millionaire Hotseat. And she cries rape and something about liking Deal of No Deal.
According to Sam it all made sense last night when he'd had a spliff (spliff is not the word he used but I can't remember what word he did use).
Finally Wil's story, hastily written was about The Voice. (It is on his Tumblr and you can read it here)
Set in the future, though not as far forward as Cal Wilson's story that I'd seen in a previous show.
This one was all about the judges and Benji and Joel Madden and Seal who is an actual seal and Ricky Martin and.... well I've never watched a whole episode of The Voice I've probably seen about 10 minutes in total.
Wil did manage to get Batman into his story, bringing him into it as a contestant on the show.
I’ve not re-read Wil’s story to write up this review/commentary of my experience because there’s a difference between watching him read and perform it and me reading it and considering it as a piece of written fanfic.
I have to praise the Heidi O’Loughlin, Eli Matthewson, Joseph Harper, Tom Furniss, Steven Boyce and Joseph Moore who are the New Zealand cast of people who make up Fan Fiction Comedy. Writing and performing a piece of fanfics with only 4 days between and 3 shows each time (they had shows on Saturday, Sunday and Monday) it something. Being able to create something that is funny, creative and still true to the universes that they’re playing around with shows great talent. I have ended the comedy festival wishing I’d seen more of their shows this year.