Sunday 3rd April 2016 - 3:00 pm
The mic problems continued this week.
The dolls on stage
Someone cancelled on The Little Dum Dum Club, which means that Dilruk was called in again. He’s evidently Tommy and Karl’s substitute go-to whenever something happens.
The guests for this, the second live podcast were the aforementioned Dilruk Jayasinha, Hamish Blake and Nazeem Hussain.
There was some follow up from Karl Chandler’s 40th birthday and guest Hamish Blake gave Karl his Nando’s black card, which it turns out is expired and has no credit left on it..
All the guests
There were significant microphone or speaker issues around 3/4 of the way through the show, where upon you could only hear extremely deep tones through the speakers. Which was fine for everyone except Tommy who couldn’t get his voice down that low.
So from that point on, they were just seemingly trying to project, while still using the microphones where were supposedly still recording, or rather the equipment was registering the sound.
Which was fine from where I was sat in the front row, but I did wonder how much the people in the back rows could hear.
Greg Larsen was the fourth guest, um...playing the racist Nando’s CEO Garry Nandos from Moorabbin, who supported apartheid and child slavery. It was at this point that the mics stopped working. Possibly it was a sign.
Pints of beer consumed by Tommy, Karl and Hamish
Live podcasts are fantastic value for money, even if there are 10 minutes of whale noises. No where else at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are you going to be able to see comedians just chatting and being funny. Yes, it is inconsistent. Yes there’s sometimes problems. But it is hilariously funny. It’s unrehearsed, yet Tommy Dassalo and Karl Chandler still manage to steer the comedy boat. It might take on water occasionally and threaten to whack its mast against the Westgate Bridge, but it’s an amazing voyage.