13th April 2014 - 5:00 pm
Last week I arrived late to the Little Dum Dum Club, so this week I arrived early.
There were a handful of people already in 5 Boroughs. I bought myself a lemonade and found a comfy chesterfield chair to sit in and look at twitter. Of the handful of people in 5 Boroughs also waiting there were 2-3 other people who like me were alone, and like me were browsing their phones doing whatever it is they were doing. I was on twitter musing on how cyanide isn't used any more as a drug of choice in narratives. Agatha, or rather the cultural memes from her works kinda ironically killed that.
The comedians for the night were Ian Bagg (sold out), Peter Helliar (doing 2 whole shows), Bart Freebairn and subbing in, just in case Peter Helliar had to go, Xavier Michelides.
Peter didn't have to go anywhere so that was a little bit odd.
The thing about going to a podcast recording rather than a standup's show is none of it is rehearsed and it's all spur of the moment.
So it's all unfiltered.
Rather like the mental image that was presented of Karl Chandler's 62 year old mother in a bikini. That is something that I didn't need to think about, however I rather think it's something that Chandler didn't want to think about even more.
Chandler's off taking his parents to Thailand, on Malaysian Airlines. Which should be interesting. As Dassalo said I am hoping he makes some video blogs of his experiences. i don't know how he's going to cope.
Seeing Bart Freebairn in person and on stage made me reconsider seeing his show once more, it was something I was going to go and see and then decided not to and then mused on whether or not to see it again. The only night where I have some time is on the last night of the festival, when in between the first Dum Dum Club and then the last DrunkCast™ show at 10pm. So I may go and see his show.
Ian Bagg had an interesting mic technique of holding the mic with two hands, it's and interesting in its confident grip that I've not seen any other comedians do. The closest is Wil Anderson who seems to have a special microphone stand that allows him to move it up and down with ease and it looked like it was on a rubbery base so it could waggle and bend when Wil let go of it.
Nothing so high tech in the Dum Dum Club, not even enough microphones to go around when Peter Helliar was able to stick around.
Which is a bit of a pity as it meant that Ian Bagg and Bart Freebairn had to share a mic. I liked the sound of Ian Bagg’s comedy, and would’ve liked to hear him more than his brief appearance in the show.
As I’ve said in my write ups of I Love Green Guide Letters, podcasts are fantastic things to go to. It’s not just going to something that you can get free.
It’s seeing Tommy Dassalo and Karl Chandler make it through their opening, Karl Chandler’s expressions, his inability to sit on a seat without sitting on his leg. The pained expressions and other things he does when caught out in thought or otherwise in musing. There’s Tommy Dassalo’s range of hats which seem to change show to show.
You get 4 guests plus Tommy and Karl making 6 comedians on the show, for what is an extremely cheap price I paid $60 for a season pass for all 4 shows. I think you would struggle to find a better deal in the comedy festival where you’re guaranteed to see at least 3 different comedians in each show.
Last week I arrived late to the Little Dum Dum Club, so this week I arrived early.
There were a handful of people already in 5 Boroughs. I bought myself a lemonade and found a comfy chesterfield chair to sit in and look at twitter. Of the handful of people in 5 Boroughs also waiting there were 2-3 other people who like me were alone, and like me were browsing their phones doing whatever it is they were doing. I was on twitter musing on how cyanide isn't used any more as a drug of choice in narratives. Agatha, or rather the cultural memes from her works kinda ironically killed that.
The comedians for the night were Ian Bagg (sold out), Peter Helliar (doing 2 whole shows), Bart Freebairn and subbing in, just in case Peter Helliar had to go, Xavier Michelides.
Peter didn't have to go anywhere so that was a little bit odd.
The thing about going to a podcast recording rather than a standup's show is none of it is rehearsed and it's all spur of the moment.
So it's all unfiltered.
Rather like the mental image that was presented of Karl Chandler's 62 year old mother in a bikini. That is something that I didn't need to think about, however I rather think it's something that Chandler didn't want to think about even more.
Chandler's off taking his parents to Thailand, on Malaysian Airlines. Which should be interesting. As Dassalo said I am hoping he makes some video blogs of his experiences. i don't know how he's going to cope.
Seeing Bart Freebairn in person and on stage made me reconsider seeing his show once more, it was something I was going to go and see and then decided not to and then mused on whether or not to see it again. The only night where I have some time is on the last night of the festival, when in between the first Dum Dum Club and then the last DrunkCast™ show at 10pm. So I may go and see his show.
Ian Bagg had an interesting mic technique of holding the mic with two hands, it's and interesting in its confident grip that I've not seen any other comedians do. The closest is Wil Anderson who seems to have a special microphone stand that allows him to move it up and down with ease and it looked like it was on a rubbery base so it could waggle and bend when Wil let go of it.
Nothing so high tech in the Dum Dum Club, not even enough microphones to go around when Peter Helliar was able to stick around.
Which is a bit of a pity as it meant that Ian Bagg and Bart Freebairn had to share a mic. I liked the sound of Ian Bagg’s comedy, and would’ve liked to hear him more than his brief appearance in the show.
As I’ve said in my write ups of I Love Green Guide Letters, podcasts are fantastic things to go to. It’s not just going to something that you can get free.
It’s seeing Tommy Dassalo and Karl Chandler make it through their opening, Karl Chandler’s expressions, his inability to sit on a seat without sitting on his leg. The pained expressions and other things he does when caught out in thought or otherwise in musing. There’s Tommy Dassalo’s range of hats which seem to change show to show.
You get 4 guests plus Tommy and Karl making 6 comedians on the show, for what is an extremely cheap price I paid $60 for a season pass for all 4 shows. I think you would struggle to find a better deal in the comedy festival where you’re guaranteed to see at least 3 different comedians in each show.