Thursday 28th March 2013
I saw two comedians on what I think was the first night of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF), so what I saw were the preview shows.
Joel Creasey was the second comedian I saw on this night.
I actually chatted to Joel Creasey’s publicist whilst waiting to go in, she even flyered me for one of the other acts that she’s a publicist for “Suns of Fred”, they did look interesting though having gotten home and looked them up...musical comedy acts don’t really do a lot for me.
I also mentioned that comedians’ podcasts are what really got me engaged in coming to the MICF this year, as mentioned below.
Anyways, Joel Creasey “The Drama Captain”.
One thing that I found a little distracting is Joel’s legs which were hairy, not a huge amount but, having seen his show last year “Naked” where he was at the end of it all twunky and wearing floaties. Seeing his legs at the start of this show was somewhat distracting.
But then he started to sing, so my thoughts were drawn elsewhere.
Mostly to my arse, but that was down to the cramped seating, I was in the second row and was regretting not sitting at the front or the back where I could stretch my legs out.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and bongs are two of the topics that I took away from Joel’s show.
There were quite a few references to bongs; bong smoking teachers and bong smoking boyfriends.
I thought Joel's show had a good construction to it, there was a connection between his stories and a sense that one story and narrative flowed into the other. Like his last show in fact which also had a neat concise narrative to it.
"The Drama Captain" aspect was only part of it though it was also about love, life and musical theatre.
Some of the references were lost on me, I am not a musical theatre sort of person and have not seen "Wicked" and therefore do not know the song/section about "defying gravity". For me "Defying Gravity" calls to mind a TV series that ran for a single series set aboard a spaceship, which devolved into a sort of alien in a box sort of thing very quickly, it had potential but went down the easy route of aliens a little too fast.
Back to Joel, I thought his show was pretty well polished and he's built on his previous show.
I enjoyed and laughed at Joel's show and I also came away from it wanting to know more of the characters that he painted throughout his stories. His ex-boyfriend (who despite him telling us his name it escapes me) except that he lives in Brunswick is good looking and smokes a lot of bongs and owns a fridge.
I was left wanting to know about the ex's hipster friends and how the bonfire night that Joel attended went.
I wanted to know more about the other drama students the 9 or 10 others who were with Joel in the bong smoking teacher-led drama class.
I wanted to know what the two badges were on his school jacket he pulled on at the end.
I will definitely go to future gigs of Joel Creasey because he's left me wanting for more.
His show didn't always make me laugh and I didn’t always get all the musical references but it didn’t matter because I thoroughly enjoyed his performance throughout.
I saw two comedians on what I think was the first night of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF), so what I saw were the preview shows.
Joel Creasey was the second comedian I saw on this night.
I actually chatted to Joel Creasey’s publicist whilst waiting to go in, she even flyered me for one of the other acts that she’s a publicist for “Suns of Fred”, they did look interesting though having gotten home and looked them up...musical comedy acts don’t really do a lot for me.
I also mentioned that comedians’ podcasts are what really got me engaged in coming to the MICF this year, as mentioned below.
Anyways, Joel Creasey “The Drama Captain”.
One thing that I found a little distracting is Joel’s legs which were hairy, not a huge amount but, having seen his show last year “Naked” where he was at the end of it all twunky and wearing floaties. Seeing his legs at the start of this show was somewhat distracting.
But then he started to sing, so my thoughts were drawn elsewhere.
Mostly to my arse, but that was down to the cramped seating, I was in the second row and was regretting not sitting at the front or the back where I could stretch my legs out.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and bongs are two of the topics that I took away from Joel’s show.
There were quite a few references to bongs; bong smoking teachers and bong smoking boyfriends.
I thought Joel's show had a good construction to it, there was a connection between his stories and a sense that one story and narrative flowed into the other. Like his last show in fact which also had a neat concise narrative to it.
"The Drama Captain" aspect was only part of it though it was also about love, life and musical theatre.
Some of the references were lost on me, I am not a musical theatre sort of person and have not seen "Wicked" and therefore do not know the song/section about "defying gravity". For me "Defying Gravity" calls to mind a TV series that ran for a single series set aboard a spaceship, which devolved into a sort of alien in a box sort of thing very quickly, it had potential but went down the easy route of aliens a little too fast.
Back to Joel, I thought his show was pretty well polished and he's built on his previous show.
I enjoyed and laughed at Joel's show and I also came away from it wanting to know more of the characters that he painted throughout his stories. His ex-boyfriend (who despite him telling us his name it escapes me) except that he lives in Brunswick is good looking and smokes a lot of bongs and owns a fridge.
I was left wanting to know about the ex's hipster friends and how the bonfire night that Joel attended went.
I wanted to know more about the other drama students the 9 or 10 others who were with Joel in the bong smoking teacher-led drama class.
I wanted to know what the two badges were on his school jacket he pulled on at the end.
I will definitely go to future gigs of Joel Creasey because he's left me wanting for more.
His show didn't always make me laugh and I didn’t always get all the musical references but it didn’t matter because I thoroughly enjoyed his performance throughout.