Category: 5 good reasons

In the lead up and during the Festivals we cover, we ask Comedians to give us 5 good reasons to come and see their show!

5 Good Reasons to See Lee Naimo in Definitely Not a Trap!

1.   Primo Content. Most shows have good content, but I’ve worked really hard to make the content in my show 100% primo. One of my friends saw the show the other day and he was like “Woah, that content is primo!” so I’m not making this up.

2. Soulful Beats. There’s so much great music in my show, but what really rises above the melodies and basslines is the beats. They’re infectious grooves that will have you grinding and bumping for days!

3. Warmth and Shelter. There’s no denying it, my venue has a roof and walls. Come in out of the cold, grab a seat and enjoy the comfort that I presume will be available.

4. Perfect Facial Symmetry. If you drew a dotted line down the exact middle of my face, you’d see that both sides are almost exactly alike. I mean, my nose is pretty crooked and one of my eyes doesn’t open as wide as the other one but it’s pretty close.

5. No Regrets. I won’t have any, and I’d highly recommend you don’t bring any into my show. Why would you? Live life without regrets. Make the first move. I stole a Qantas iPad the other day and I sure as heck don’t have any regrets about it. It’s great!

Lee Naimo in Definitely Not a Trap! will be on at The Lithuanian Club 18-25 Sept

 https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/view/3bb9c959-9726-4766-b8a3-af9880f08a1c 

5 Good Reasons to see Joshua Glanc’s 99 Schnitzels (Veal Ain’t One)

1. The show features my (recently deceased) pet cat preserved by a taxidermist

2.  Characters. Characters. Characters

3. There’s music and singing and dancing, and who doesn’t like a shitload of that?

4. It’s silly, ridiculous, “what-is-he-even-doing”, “why-am-I-even-watching this”, “why-am-I-even-here”, “who-am-I?” fun.

5. No really, this show is really fun.

 Joshua Glanc performs 99 Schnitzels (Veal Ain’t One) at The Tuxedo Cat

For tickets and information https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/view/4f0508b2-d798-42cf-ade6-064d1619282a

5 Good Reasons to see SEMI CHARMED

1) It’s about internet dating. Which is important to people who date online, and funny to people who don’t.

2) You get to see what a girl does alone in her bedroom. You won’t be disappointed. Although, there isn’t any nudity.

3) But! there is music with a little gender bender vocal styling

4) It’s a good place to take a first date- there’ll be lots to talk about over dinner after the show.

5) It’s a little insight into the positive and negative aspects of present day romance.

Sarah Clarke is performing Semi Charmed at the Butterfly Club 16 – 20 Sept

 

5 Good Reasons to see Paul Culliver Controls the Media

1. It’s like Good News Week or The Project, but live on stage at The Butterfly Club!

2. An amazing lineup of guests: Dave Callan, Lawrence Leung, Adam Richard, Damian Callinan, Andrew McClelland, Alice Fraser, Nicholas J. Johnson & Sarah Jones
3. You can listen to all the previous shows on the podcast now! Just search “controls the media” in your podcast app.
4. Cheap tickets if you book: You can use the promo code “control” when booking the first show and the promo code “media” when booking the second show to get $20 tickets. The promo codes expire 1 week before the shows – go to http://thebutterflyclub.com to book
5. The shows are in the afternoon, which means you can see lots of other Fringe shows afterwards!

Paul Culliver Controls the Media is on twice at The Butterfly Club – Sun 27 Sep & Sun 4 Oct at 4pm

Tickets and info: https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/view/305fa552-291b-46b2-9e44-4d3f047f44b6

5 Goode Reasons to see Soothplayers: Completely Improvised Shakespeare

1. Each show is the opening (and closing) night of a completely improvised play using the language, themes and style of Shakespeare!

2. The fleeting one hour’s traffic of our stage is much shorter than sitting through an actual Shakespeare play! Imagine what you could do with that spare time – eat food, fall in love, do your taxes (or all 3 at the same time if you take your accountant on a date)

3. You get to hear fun words like: Mayhap, Verily and Strumpet.

4. A good death scene, or a love scene, or fairies (probably)

5. There will be a lute and shapely calves.

Soothplayers is on at The Improv Conspiracy – Theatre

5 Good Reasons to See Simon Godfrey – Sauce

1. In the show, two of the minor characters are yachts. If I was only playing one yacht, I’d understand if people were like, “Just one? I could see that anywhere.” But two… Strap yourselves in, sailors.

2. Sauce is a deeply personal show about a boy who doesn’t like tomato sauce. Oh the torment, discrimination and scorn we non-sauce-eaters suffer. When I was a child, I was ejected from every school sausage sizzle. I’m convinced they thought something was wrong with me, (I know you’re thinking there is), and that my sauce refusal was a form of anarchism.

3. What’s with the lack of catapults in modern comedy? It’s a question I hear all the time and a problem rectified by my heavy use of trebuchets in the show.

4. To write Sauce, I used the tried and tested equation: underdog + geopolitics + silly voices(rudimentary impression of Vladimir Putin) x sausages2 = comedy.

5. It’s a one-person show with 30 and a bit characters, revenge, intrigue, milk bars a lot of sauce. And, if I can remember it all, it should be a lot of fun.

Simon Godfrey’s  Sauce is on at The Lithuanian Club

Info and Tickets: https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/view/0b265fac-5bbe-4baa-ad1a-e6b48c756892