MICF 2014 - The Little Dum Dum Club (2)

6th April 2014 - 5:00 pm

I admit, I got to The Little Dum Dum Club late.

There's lots of things I could blame on this, it being daylight saving, and me being a little scatter brained on Sunday.

I think, also in working out how much time to allow for myself to get up to the city and to 5 Boroughs, somewhere along that line I must have misread the ticket. Which is odd considering I went there last week.
For some reason I thought it started at 5:30 rather than 5pm.
The only thing I can thing is that I was getting it confused and also offsetting it correctly, but still confused with I Love Green Guide Letters.

So I arrived late, though not so late that the guests were on, so not amazingly late. So that’s...okay?
No.
But once seated I did try to be a good audience member.
Unlike the two people seated next to me.

Woman in green hoody and her friend, possibly boyfriend, though I'll play it ambiguous and just say friend; the hipster skater guy with some piercings, tattoos and a New Era hat.
She was checking her phone ever other minute or so and was clapping very lacklusterly if at all. She seemed pretty bored by everything, I did feel like asking why they even bothered to come to a podcast recording. You need to be at least a fan or a dragged along by a fan to want to go to a live podcast recording. It could be that her friend brought her along, I couldn't quite see his expression.

Enough audience critique.
The guests; Ronny Chieng, Scott Dooley, David O'Doherty and subbing in after Ronny had to leave to go do his own show Josh Earl.

I will admit that I'm not a huge fan of Ronny Chieng or David O'Doherty, Neither of their comedy styles particularly appeal to me.
What I have seen of their respective work hasn't made me laugh hugely, it might have made me smile a little, but not enough to make me want to pursue their work.

Scott Dooley's career I've found interesting, but am not greatly aware of his comedy.

Outside of the Rad Dad theme and his Spicks & Specks hosting I don't have much knowledge of Josh Earl.

Thinking of Rad Dad, there was a live episode of Rad Dad, Australia's longest running audio podcast comedy drama based on a Target catalogue.
The banana was a light. It wasn't a highlight or a lowlight, it was just a light.

I would be lying if I said I enjoyed this Dum Dum Club as much as last week's show.
It was still funny. Though beating Lawrence Moony and pretend Chinese is hard.

But I still enjoyed it, it was still funny, and I got to see comedians who I wouldn’t normally see.