27th March 2016 - 3:00 pm
Things got unexpectedly political and unexpectedly slapstick.
The first Little Dum Dum Club Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016, is now in a decidedly nicer venue the European Bier Cafe on Exhibition Street, which is a so much nicer venue to walk into than last year’s which was near the Maccas at the Flinders Street end of Elizabeth Street.
Tommy Dassalo looked much more rosy cheeked than the last time I saw him which was for the Little Dum Dub Club Christmas show last year.
Or maybe it was just that I was sitting in the front row.
I certainly panicked a little bit when Karl Chandler threatened; glass in hand; to stage dive into the crowd.
They’re the hosts of the Little Dum Dum Club podcast, of which this was the live version, I perhaps should have lead with that, but there’s other reviews where I do introduce them.
The guests for this first show of the MICF were; Dilruk Jayasinha, Ronny Chieng and Daniel Sloss.
Dilruk was looking surprisingly svelte. Ronny too was looking much more lithe.
There was a surprising amount of discussion by Ronny about the size of Daniel Sloss’ penis.
Which only left me with questions.
Mostly about how Ronny Chieng came upon the “aftermath”.
The fourth guest was unexpected, unexpectedly political and unexpected that a politician would be a fan of the Little Dum Dum Club. Enough to buy a tshirt and be a Patreon supporter.
Sam Dastyari, or more correctly Senator Sam Dastyari is member of the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate.
Apparently also a fan of the Little Dum Dum Club, enough to make some references to various things that have been in The Little Dum Dum Club podcast.
While Dastyari was on stage it seemed the microphones chose this point to stop working, or at least one of them did, which lead to some interesting, almost slapstick-like work to try and get them working by Ronny Chieng and to a lesser amount Daniel Sloss. But mostly it was Ronny Chieng, who at one point, to see (or more to the point hear) if the microphone was working held the microphone up to his ear.
Apparently BuzzFeed was also at the live podcast show. Supposedly they contacted Dastyari and said they tried to contact Tommy or Karl to confirm things and were met with the level of incompetence and dickheadery that is the podcast in general. And therefore weren’t even sure if there was even going to be a podcast / show on today.
I do wonder what they made of the content of the first Little Dum Dum Club live podcast of the MICF 2016.