MICF 2014 - I Love Green Guide Letters (3)

12th April 2014 - 4:30 pm

On the 12th’s I Love Green Guide Letters there was a genuine TV personality. Someone who wasn’t on the podcast who also had a show in the comedy festival. Someone who has been on a many a different show on the commercial networks. Livinia Nixon, a genuine fan of the the letters, possibly as much as Steele. She knew all about the The Doctor Blake Mysteries letters and all the complaints that were raised in them.

The other guests were; Greg Fleet and Luke McGregor.

I misjudged which way the queue decided to form this week so wasn’t at the front of the queue, nor was I able to get a seat at the front in front of the stage as I had the previous weeks. Those with season passes or just return audience members working out the quirks of the ‘hate bunker’ and that it being a long narrow room meaning that getting near the front was better than sitting at the back. I was 3 rows back which wasn’t bad.

I did get talking to someone outside the in the queue who mentioned that she’d been drunk or hung over since Valentine’s Day – during the Adelaide Fringe. They’d gone to the I Love Green Guide Letters show in Adelaide and had followed it to Melbourne.

I don’t know how they could be drunk for that long. Though I’m a very cheap drunk. A couple of bottles of cider will do me. 1-2 is in general enough for me for the night, any more and I think it becomes unpleasant.

Dating was discussed at some length, both Fleet’s experiences with women and dating and also McGregor’s upcoming date with someone he’d met online.

Celebrity Dog Survivor was one of the many things that Livinia Nixon mentioned whilst discussing the various shows and bad things she’d worked on. It involved a restraining order, against the owner not the dog.

Not quite as shocking or revealing as last week. It was still a quality hour of comedy. Heartily recommend it, there are very few shows in the comedy festival where you will get to see 4 entertainers at once speaking unrehearsed about stuff.

Don’t think live podcast recordings as something of the audio medium presented live. This is like going to Good News Week, or Rove Live! or something like that. It’s a comedy talk show, live and about the Age’s Green Guide Letters. Though only as much as they’re a framing device to lead to more conversation.