FanFiction Comedy is a group of New Zealand comedians and their show is produced by Wil Anderson. I'm not totally sure what is involved in the latter, I saw Wil coming up the stairs as I was going down them, but aside from that I'm not sure what he and his gravity defying hair do.
Located in the Victoria Hotel Banquet Room it's literally just around the corner from the Melbourne Town Hall, so as I’ve mentioned below if you’re looking for an early night of comedy on a Thursday night I Love Green Guide Letters and FanFiction Comedy go well together.
FanFiction Comedy are, however on Saturday, Sunday and Monday throughout the comedy festival. Monday slightly later at 7pm, Sunday earlier at 4:30pm and Saturday at 5:30pm.
The idea behind FanFiction Comedy is that the group plus 2 guest stars write some amusing fan fiction and then read it out. Tonight it was reviewed by 2 of the group.
This show was a themed one, though according to them on Twitter the others will be a mixed variety of fanfic. The theme for tonight was Harry Potter.
The two special guests were Adam Richard and Tegan Higginbotham.
Heidi O'Loughlin’s fic was probably the darkest of the lot. Still funny.
I think it was Tom Furniss who admitted only having ready the first Harry Potter book and did an odd Jack Black Harry Potter crossover. I happen to like crossovers and he did some great voices, so I found it pretty funny.
Adam Richard's story was...well it was funny, but Harry Potter universe wise it wasn’t great for its in-universe consistency. Not so much a fan fiction and a fiction written with ideas of the universe.
Tegan Higginbotham's story was probably the best, it had great characterisations, it got them out into the story quickly yet still allowing little details for them all. It stuck to the theme, though there wasn’t one stated in the show it seemed to be what the Harry Potter characters did after (or in Richard’s case before) their time at Hogwarts. I’m only assuming this based on the similar themes of everyone’s stories.
I should say now (and probably earlier) that I am a Harry Potter fan, and also a reader and writer of fan fiction. Having said that I’ve not heard of Drapple, or rather I hadn’t until I attended FanFiction Comedy.
Eli the MC of the night mentioned Drapple early on, is Draco/Apple slash fiction. Apple as in the fruit, which supposedly in two scenes in the Harry Potter films he's seen eating an apple.
Amazingly weird.
But better than MPREG, which is something I really don't enjoy reading about (MPREG is male pregnancy).
Eli finished the show with a musical number on the Drapple subject, which was good and funny.
I didn’t laugh as much as I thought I would, but it wasn’t for me a laugh on every sentence sort of show. I did enjoy it though and will be buying more tickets for it.
Not all shows need to make me laugh, not all of the time, laughing’s important, it’s the comedy festival after all. But it’s also good to be stimulated mentally, to think and muse on the subjects brought up, along with the laughing.
FanFiction Comedy, like Joel Creasey left me wanting more and left me still thinking about the show long after it finished and left me wanting to return.
Located in the Victoria Hotel Banquet Room it's literally just around the corner from the Melbourne Town Hall, so as I’ve mentioned below if you’re looking for an early night of comedy on a Thursday night I Love Green Guide Letters and FanFiction Comedy go well together.
FanFiction Comedy are, however on Saturday, Sunday and Monday throughout the comedy festival. Monday slightly later at 7pm, Sunday earlier at 4:30pm and Saturday at 5:30pm.
The idea behind FanFiction Comedy is that the group plus 2 guest stars write some amusing fan fiction and then read it out. Tonight it was reviewed by 2 of the group.
This show was a themed one, though according to them on Twitter the others will be a mixed variety of fanfic. The theme for tonight was Harry Potter.
The two special guests were Adam Richard and Tegan Higginbotham.
Heidi O'Loughlin’s fic was probably the darkest of the lot. Still funny.
I think it was Tom Furniss who admitted only having ready the first Harry Potter book and did an odd Jack Black Harry Potter crossover. I happen to like crossovers and he did some great voices, so I found it pretty funny.
Adam Richard's story was...well it was funny, but Harry Potter universe wise it wasn’t great for its in-universe consistency. Not so much a fan fiction and a fiction written with ideas of the universe.
Tegan Higginbotham's story was probably the best, it had great characterisations, it got them out into the story quickly yet still allowing little details for them all. It stuck to the theme, though there wasn’t one stated in the show it seemed to be what the Harry Potter characters did after (or in Richard’s case before) their time at Hogwarts. I’m only assuming this based on the similar themes of everyone’s stories.
I should say now (and probably earlier) that I am a Harry Potter fan, and also a reader and writer of fan fiction. Having said that I’ve not heard of Drapple, or rather I hadn’t until I attended FanFiction Comedy.
Eli the MC of the night mentioned Drapple early on, is Draco/Apple slash fiction. Apple as in the fruit, which supposedly in two scenes in the Harry Potter films he's seen eating an apple.
Amazingly weird.
But better than MPREG, which is something I really don't enjoy reading about (MPREG is male pregnancy).
Eli finished the show with a musical number on the Drapple subject, which was good and funny.
I didn’t laugh as much as I thought I would, but it wasn’t for me a laugh on every sentence sort of show. I did enjoy it though and will be buying more tickets for it.
Not all shows need to make me laugh, not all of the time, laughing’s important, it’s the comedy festival after all. But it’s also good to be stimulated mentally, to think and muse on the subjects brought up, along with the laughing.
FanFiction Comedy, like Joel Creasey left me wanting more and left me still thinking about the show long after it finished and left me wanting to return.