5th April 2014 - 4:30 pm
Hey guys.
Back into the hate bunker.
The wall hadn't been moved for this podcasting show recording of I Love Green Guide Letters.
But it had sold out.
I think, had anyone known who the guests were to be Steele could have sold many more and they'd have to open up the wall again.
The guests were fairly big and a bit complaining prone about their big houses with large corridors or their houses near the beach and the cemetery.
The guests were Dave Hughes, Anne Edmonds and Wil Anderson. Anne Edmonds did not complain about corridors or beaches.
It was however amazingly funny and brilliant.
'Do we get paid for this?' Was something Hughesy apparently asked Wil who recounted this with a laugh and saying 'you obviously don't know a lot about podcasting'.
Hughesy then went onto complain about the size of the corridors of his house that he's having built, apparently they're museum-sized.
Hughesy also mentioned that he'd wanted to go and beat up one of the letter writers in Echuca but the Green Guide editor wouldn't give him their address.
He also professed a love of trams.
I was seated up the front, the very front, so Hughesy asking me (as I was opposite him) how much this (podcast show) cost froze me slightly. I had actually no way of answering him given the volume of the speakers and others laughing / talking.
Hughesy is someone who I first saw on The Glass House along with Wil Anderson. So seeing him on the I Love Green Guide Letters recording that night was something of a great surprise. I’ve not been to see him do stand up before as his tone of comedy isn’t really my thing, nor really has the other ventures he’s been on TV. So seeing him up close was interesting.
Hughesy went on to praise Jon Casimir, the ABC’s new Head of Entertainment, though he was at lengths to point out he was praising him before he knew that and said forcefully to Steele “Don't edit this bit out!”. It became a common cry from Hughesy that night.
Wil arrived straight from seeing Captain America, in his trackies.
He also sounded a bit croaky.
I did wonder how he'd go performing. Is there a magical spray that a performer sprays into their mouth to make them sound less croaky? How do standups, whose livelihood is dependent on them talking for a living avoid losing their voices?
Is it just something that comes naturally over time, that the more time spent talking the less likely you are to lose your voice?
Between Wil and Hughesy I felt that Anne Edmonds was dwarfed a little bit by them, talking with someone after the show he felt she held her own, but she seemed happy to sit back and marvel at Hughesy's love of trams.
To return to Hughesy’s question of how much the podcast shows cost. I bought a season pass for the four shows for $55.
For that price you’re guaranteed 4 comedians, or possibly as 3 comedians and a radio personality as happened last year. Plus of course there’s Steele Saunders comedian, host, man with fantastic hair and a brilliant laugh.
Plus, none of this is rehearsed, none of it aside from the letters from the archive are thought of before hand.
I always find going to or listening to Australian comedy podcasts an interesting and funny experience.
It’s like a panel show, an interview and comedy all unrehearsed and all pretty honest. The last or which was commented upon by Hughesy near the end saying that he’s never been this honest/open before.
Some might wonder, why go to the live podcast if it’s going out free to download?
There is a big difference between being there and listening to it. Plus Steele is a bit more of a wizard with the editing of his podcast than Wil Anderson or Tommy Dassalo / Karl Chandler are with their podcasts TOFOP/FOFOP and The Little Dum Dum Club. With theirs everything is usually left in, but with I Love Green Guide Letters you get these snippets, these extra things in the ‘secret section’ at the end of the podcast.
Hey guys.
Back into the hate bunker.
The wall hadn't been moved for this podcasting show recording of I Love Green Guide Letters.
But it had sold out.
I think, had anyone known who the guests were to be Steele could have sold many more and they'd have to open up the wall again.
The guests were fairly big and a bit complaining prone about their big houses with large corridors or their houses near the beach and the cemetery.
The guests were Dave Hughes, Anne Edmonds and Wil Anderson. Anne Edmonds did not complain about corridors or beaches.
It was however amazingly funny and brilliant.
'Do we get paid for this?' Was something Hughesy apparently asked Wil who recounted this with a laugh and saying 'you obviously don't know a lot about podcasting'.
Hughesy then went onto complain about the size of the corridors of his house that he's having built, apparently they're museum-sized.
Hughesy also mentioned that he'd wanted to go and beat up one of the letter writers in Echuca but the Green Guide editor wouldn't give him their address.
He also professed a love of trams.
I was seated up the front, the very front, so Hughesy asking me (as I was opposite him) how much this (podcast show) cost froze me slightly. I had actually no way of answering him given the volume of the speakers and others laughing / talking.
Hughesy is someone who I first saw on The Glass House along with Wil Anderson. So seeing him on the I Love Green Guide Letters recording that night was something of a great surprise. I’ve not been to see him do stand up before as his tone of comedy isn’t really my thing, nor really has the other ventures he’s been on TV. So seeing him up close was interesting.
Hughesy went on to praise Jon Casimir, the ABC’s new Head of Entertainment, though he was at lengths to point out he was praising him before he knew that and said forcefully to Steele “Don't edit this bit out!”. It became a common cry from Hughesy that night.
Wil arrived straight from seeing Captain America, in his trackies.
He also sounded a bit croaky.
I did wonder how he'd go performing. Is there a magical spray that a performer sprays into their mouth to make them sound less croaky? How do standups, whose livelihood is dependent on them talking for a living avoid losing their voices?
Is it just something that comes naturally over time, that the more time spent talking the less likely you are to lose your voice?
Between Wil and Hughesy I felt that Anne Edmonds was dwarfed a little bit by them, talking with someone after the show he felt she held her own, but she seemed happy to sit back and marvel at Hughesy's love of trams.
To return to Hughesy’s question of how much the podcast shows cost. I bought a season pass for the four shows for $55.
For that price you’re guaranteed 4 comedians, or possibly as 3 comedians and a radio personality as happened last year. Plus of course there’s Steele Saunders comedian, host, man with fantastic hair and a brilliant laugh.
Plus, none of this is rehearsed, none of it aside from the letters from the archive are thought of before hand.
I always find going to or listening to Australian comedy podcasts an interesting and funny experience.
It’s like a panel show, an interview and comedy all unrehearsed and all pretty honest. The last or which was commented upon by Hughesy near the end saying that he’s never been this honest/open before.
Some might wonder, why go to the live podcast if it’s going out free to download?
There is a big difference between being there and listening to it. Plus Steele is a bit more of a wizard with the editing of his podcast than Wil Anderson or Tommy Dassalo / Karl Chandler are with their podcasts TOFOP/FOFOP and The Little Dum Dum Club. With theirs everything is usually left in, but with I Love Green Guide Letters you get these snippets, these extra things in the ‘secret section’ at the end of the podcast.