Comedy Theatre stage from where I was sat
9th April 2014 9:00 pm
Fuck, Georogia's parent's must be open minded.
11 years old at a 15+ show, at 9:00 pm on a Wednesday.
Wil Anderson had boots on that were older than Georgia, who was a girl in the upper deck of the Comedy Theatre with a cackle for a laugh.
Wil observed that the crowd took a little bit to warm up. I think it was just that it was pouring with rain outside the Comedy Theatre. Also the traffic lights were out - flashing orange so getting across the road was a bit dicey to get there. Then once seated the humidity kinda got to you. So there was something of a sensation once seated of getting relaxed and getting ready for the show.
And what a show.
It was a little random off topic a bit like a solo
episode, but like TOFOP did, when it got off topic got back onto topic.
And like Karl Chandler and Nick Cody's show some of what was in Wil Anderson's “Wiluminati” show I had heard him talk about before on FOFOP.
But it was how he tells it and the extra bits and pieces revealed in this show that make it so much better than on FOFOP..
The show ran over time and started late, about 10 minutes late and it finished at 10:30.
The
is a nicer venue for comedy and how I think Wil Anderson likes to interact with the crowd than the Princes Theatre that he was in last year. The Princess Theatre was just a little too big and grand for the audience interaction that I think Wil likes. With the Comedy Theatre there's some of that back. It's not exactly a small comedy room, but it has a closeness that the Princess Theatre seemed to lack last year.
Wil's show, I think is about what he believes and the philosophy by which he lives his life by.
Also about how inspirations do not need to be real to have an affect on your life. They can be entirely made up and still be useful.
"We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one" That quote, from Doctor Who came to mind when seeing Wil's show.
He's not the Doctor, and with his dodgy hips he'd not really be a good Doctor or assistant. He'd never be able to run down the corridors.
But his philosophy on life made me think of Doctor Who.
It all started quite high brow with some Shakespeare quotes, but it was observed by Wil that, after the audience had laughed at some Shakespeare-inspired cock jokes that that was all that audience wanted.
In the course of his show he mentioned his hips and the osteoarthritis in them, it’s something of a running update in his shows, I don’t recall seeing his show the year before last. But he mentioned them in last year’s show and once again in this show, along with his doctor. A good doctor, an awful honest person.
I don’t remember where I heard it, but very likely it was on a podcast that Wil said he saw some guys who went to his preview show and then were going again at the end of the comedy festival to see ‘what he changes and got right’ at the end.
From the way the show went on Wednesday night I am curious to see it again.
Just based on how Wil told things, the amount of time over that he went and Georgia and how the audience reacted to him I’m curious about seeing his show again, just to see what’s different.
I watch movies and TV shows over again and still enjoy them, so why not a standup? Problem is I’m only going up to see stuff on the same nights that I Love Green Guide Letters and The Little Dum Dum Club podcast recordings are on (and seeing other shows) and Wil’s show starts before those other shows end.
So just the once, with Georgia and the loud wolf whistling woman who was in procurement it will have to be.