12th April 2015 - 3:00 pm
Fat jokes, racism, the Westgate Bridge and Tommy’s parents were in the audience. Welcome to the Little Dum Dum Club. I’ve taken to writing notes and ideas in a little notebook, which also means reading my hand writing after the event. That’s basically what I wrote in my notebook in order to remind myself when I came to write this up. It’s not a lot, annoyingly I’m sure I recalled more after it. Or perhaps not. Laughter is an involuntary act. It goes through and is processed in a different way.
The guests for today’s club were:
(who had to leave early),
,
(who subbed in for Celia) and
. Also
came on half way through. I found Celia’s accent notable, very though not quite entirely English accented. Still recognisably her accent of Australia, though quite influenced by an English accent.
There was a performance of Australia’s longest running and most professional podcast-based comedy series based on a Target catalogue audition “Rad Dad”. Nazeem gave quite a creepy performance as the police detective. Anthony was somewhat disappointed by his lack of lines and professionalism on the part of Tommy and Karl.
Rad Dad scripts under stools
There was more talk of Karl Chandler’s show which still sounds like an awful nightmare performance which I don’t know how he manages to do every night. Just the thought of that much heckling and contention in the room is enough to put me off from going.
I’ve always thought that everyone who’s at a comedy gig is there to have fun, to enjoy themselves. But Karl’s description of his show and the antics of the crowd it most certainly doesn’t sound like that.
Aside from this breakdown of Chandler’s most recent performance there was general random chats that were full of hilarity...along with some of the Dum Dum trademark ‘hanging shit on Dilruk’. Some of it seemed to shock / surprise Celia.
There’s one show left, plus the drunk cast. Get tickets, arrive early. Enjoy the sticky floor of the first floor bar while queuing for entry into The Joint. There are lifts if you’re curious about access that doesn’t involve stairs.