11th April 2013
A woman in front of me had a bicycle helmet that looked like a watermelon.
This has nothing to do with Jeff Green's show, but it just made me smile a bit even before Jeff Green came out on stage.
Jeff Green is also the first single international comedian I've intentionally seen. I mean I've unintentionally seen international comedians at the Little Dum Dum Club and I Love GReen Guide Letters podcast recordings.
And I've seen FanFiction Comedy which was a group of New Zealander comedians.
But Jeff Green was the first solo international comedian.
I've seen him in a few things here and there and bought a ticket based on the possibility of an origin story, basically.
How Jeff Green became a comedian was what I thought I'd be getting and sort of got.
Green is fairly physical, he likes to pace up and down the stage, and had an over ear mic so he could do so. Except half way through it crapped out and he had to use the regular mic with a cable and it was interesting to see how much having a mic with a cable cramped his style and ability to move around the stage. Though this was in part due to the length of the cable that was connected to the mic.
Jeff Green also looked a little rough, like he needed a shave and an energy drink. Just a little bit rough around the edges. Yet he was still full of energy, despite outward appearances.
More information than what’s on his MICF website show page, that was what I was expecting going into his show.
I was also surprised by the "you Australians" / "this country" sort of observations given that he'd already said he's lived out here for at least 5 or so years and married an Australian lady. These observations I just found a little odd, jarring somewhat as he seemed to be playing both sides as both ‘foreigner’ and having lived here for a while.
Green seemed to skip over the how he became a touring comedian from his first gigs to the big festivals. It was sort of "hand waved" away.
What is advertised on his MICF show page is what you get there is standup on “jungles of East Timor; the stinking mudfest that is The Glastonbury Festival and remembers in intimate detail a much loved meeting with a Danish Burlesque Troupe!”. But I was left wanting more chuckles, more hilarity from those events. They seemed under told, that he’d started cutting into the cake and got as far as the icing and stopped without getting to the cake.
A woman in front of me had a bicycle helmet that looked like a watermelon.
This has nothing to do with Jeff Green's show, but it just made me smile a bit even before Jeff Green came out on stage.
Jeff Green is also the first single international comedian I've intentionally seen. I mean I've unintentionally seen international comedians at the Little Dum Dum Club and I Love GReen Guide Letters podcast recordings.
And I've seen FanFiction Comedy which was a group of New Zealander comedians.
But Jeff Green was the first solo international comedian.
I've seen him in a few things here and there and bought a ticket based on the possibility of an origin story, basically.
How Jeff Green became a comedian was what I thought I'd be getting and sort of got.
Green is fairly physical, he likes to pace up and down the stage, and had an over ear mic so he could do so. Except half way through it crapped out and he had to use the regular mic with a cable and it was interesting to see how much having a mic with a cable cramped his style and ability to move around the stage. Though this was in part due to the length of the cable that was connected to the mic.
Jeff Green also looked a little rough, like he needed a shave and an energy drink. Just a little bit rough around the edges. Yet he was still full of energy, despite outward appearances.
More information than what’s on his MICF website show page, that was what I was expecting going into his show.
I was also surprised by the "you Australians" / "this country" sort of observations given that he'd already said he's lived out here for at least 5 or so years and married an Australian lady. These observations I just found a little odd, jarring somewhat as he seemed to be playing both sides as both ‘foreigner’ and having lived here for a while.
Green seemed to skip over the how he became a touring comedian from his first gigs to the big festivals. It was sort of "hand waved" away.
What is advertised on his MICF show page is what you get there is standup on “jungles of East Timor; the stinking mudfest that is The Glastonbury Festival and remembers in intimate detail a much loved meeting with a Danish Burlesque Troupe!”. But I was left wanting more chuckles, more hilarity from those events. They seemed under told, that he’d started cutting into the cake and got as far as the icing and stopped without getting to the cake.