Sunday 10th April 2016 - 6:15 pm

At past MICFs I had been finding a whole lot of comedians I wanted to see and filled up my schedule to see as many as I could on the days that I was up in Melbourne, typically the weekend because I had season passes to podcasts.

This year I only decided to buy a season pass only to The Little Dum Dum Club.
There’s also been few comedians I really wanted to see.
So instead I’ve been going up, seeing The Little Dum Dum Club and then deciding if I wanted to see anything else while I was up in the city.

Which basically means I look through the website/guide for anything on from 6 pm - 7 pm, because after 4 pm when The Little Dum Dum Club finishes I don’t want to hang around in the city forever.

Forgot to take photos inside the venue, this I took after the show

I chose Guy Montgomery because his show was on at 6:15 pm, it was in the Forum Theatre (and therefore close to where I’d parked at Federation Square) and because he was a New Zealander. As since it’s the Melbourne International Comedy Festival I figured I should see some international comedians.

There’s some things I like when I see comedians.
Narrative comedy.
Some semblance of truth.

Neither of these were in Guy Montgomery’s show "Guy Montcomedy".

He also picked on me, though I was in the middle front row, so that’s to be expected. I tried not giving him much as I thought he just wanted to kill some dead air in the room.
But he came back at me more than once. So I admit I did challenge him / heckle him a little bit.

Looking up at him was a little straining on the eyes, I’ll admit that, my fault for sitting in the front row.

But he did keep me engaged, even if not everything was immediately amusing.

He’s a somewhat physical performer, using the small stage.
He also revealed that the room he’d performing in the Forum Theatre “Pizza Room” is indeed a room, with a pizza oven in it and it weirdly forms part of his act in a sort of tangential sort of way.