First recording of the Little Dum Dum Club

12th November 2016
6:30 pm
European Bier Cafe - 120 Exhibition Street, Melbourne

Voting for whether they should do a live show in Thailand greeted me when I walked in. I voted “no” just to be contrarian, and because Chandler’s Thailand fascination deserves to be reigned in.

Second recording of the Little Dum Dum Club

The show was pretty good value, going from 6:30 pm (ish) through to around 11 pm. They recorded two episode of the podcast and then ended with a selection of deliberately bad character standup at the end.

Of this show, and especially the last portion with the bad standup in it, is part of the reason why I think I like the Little Dum Dum Club so much. It’s like listening, and going and seeing an ongoing...thing. It’s like a series of in jokes that you need to have listened to the past episodes to understand. Not just things like Rad Dad, but June Northern, but also the ‘door story’, duck sandwich, the pyjamas, mousse and all the other in jokes and references. The Little Dum Dum Club has its own canon, its own body of work told over 300 plus episodes.

To begin the afternoon / evening was another in Tommy Dassalo’s Fiverr erotic fan fiction summaries of his and Chandler’s day.

For the first recording Tommy and Karl were joined by Tom Ballard, Dilruk Jayasinha and Adam Knox.
For the second recording Tommy and Karl were joined by Fiona O’Laughlin, Joel Creasey and Nick Cody.

With line ups like that, $41 is a pretty good price given the nearly four and a half hours (minus breaks between) of comedy on the night.

The final part of the show was the “horrific stand up show” featuring various bits of character standup from Tom Ballard, Tommy Dassalo, Fiona O’Laughlin, Dilruk Jayasinha and Karl Chandler.

First up was Karl Chandler in his notorious pyjamas, doing jokes from one of his first sets, as mentioned in a previous podcast.

Next up was Comrade Tom Ballard, the socialist left’s comedian for those who wanted to feel guilty about asylum seekers and being white and...stuff like that.

After that was the Baby Bogan himself, filling out a nappy was Tommy Dassalo with some very interesting jokes about babyhood and life.

Following that was a fantastically interesting performance from June Northern herself, mentioning Fiona O’Laughlin and starring the vacuum cleaner that once tried to end it all.

Then was racially diverse in the worst possible way, Dilruk Jayasinha, as an Indian taxi comedian.

Finally, everyone’s favourite comedian, loved by RSLs everywhere, Gary Chook. The audience chanted ‘Chook, Chook, Chook,’ as he made his way on stage. Karl Chandler had left the building to be replaced by Chook, a man who looked like he was ready to pick a fight with anyone who disagreed with his politics or humour.

It was a strange end to fantastically funny, but odd night.