1. It’s filled with spooky horror sketches that aren’t that interested in scaring you. For his second solo show, David’s channelling a little Vincent Price spooky storytelling and as such you can expect references to Dracula, Saw and Scooby-Doo. Also, for reasons that go unexplained, he’s gonna namedrop of West Side Story, Jurassic Park and 99 Luftballoons.
2. Squirrel Comedy said that David’s first show, Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls, “Has the power to have you regularly falling about with laughter.”
3. Speaking of reviews, Sketch Me… played at 2018’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival to very pleasant notices, with Milk Bar Magazine saying it, “Combines absurdly amusing and faultless characters, playful props and good-humoured audience interaction until the whole room feels like one big love-in,” while Weekend Notes called it, ”A must-see show if you’re thinking about going to the comedy festival.”
4. One sketch spends far too much time – or not enough time, depending on your perspective – digging into collective nouns and the people who get to decide which collective nouns stick and which ones die at the hands/talons of a murder of crows.
5. I’m thinking of putting Monster Mash on the preshow music list, so that’s a fun time.
David Massingham’s Little Sketch Book of Horrors is on at Tasma Terrace from Mar 28 til Apr 7
https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2019/shows/little-sketch-book-of-horrors