1. Itâs the FIRST solo sketch comedy show from a guy who knows sketch comedy.
Debut shows are tricky propositions, eh? You want to support new artists, sure, but damned if you want to see a crap show. Daveâs done a bunch of sketch comedy show stuff previously with The Sexy Detectives and they got good reviews, so you can see Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls knowing that if you hate it itâs only because thatâs just, like, your opinion, man. This very website what youâre reading right now called The Sexy Detectives, âexperimental and non-standard, utterly entertaining, and just really stupidly funnyâ, which is pretty much 95% compliments.
What weâre trying to say is, Daveâs relatively certain he knows which end of the sketch comedy stick makes the funnies go bang.
2. Each show will see a SECOND Comedy Fest artist appearing in a special guest spot.
Itâs a short and super sneaky appearance from a different comedian each night, all in the aid of Maximum Comedy. Your show could have an award-nominated (or -winning!) comedian, or it could have an artist too-damn-cool for those awards but that the other performers all know is great. Hope you donât turn up on the night Dave organised that one terrible comedian to turn up.
3. Sketch Me features not one, not two, but THREE jokes about famous visual artists.
Yeah, we know what you like.
This is just how Dave rolls. Heâs always tossing out art history bon mots over a bottle of â59 Grange with chums.
Real talk: Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls is your one stop shop for gags about famed Dutch painter and primary colour enthusiast Piet Mondrian. If fact, this is really bloody likely to be the only show in this yearâs Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Mondrian-related material, because all those other shows JUST ARENâT GAME ENOUGH for geometric shape-based comedy.
If Mondrianâs not your guy, we feel. Thatâs when the expertly-timed Jackson Pollock Blue Poles joke T-bones you, like a sucker punch to the funny bone. Itâs about time someone took that Pollock joker down a peg after what he did to the socialist realism movement, amiright?
The third joke is a cheap swipe at Ken Done.
4. You can try before you buy (but please, definitely do buy) by checking out the FOUR video sketches promoting Sketch Me.
Sketch comedy! It comes in both live and not-live formats. To enjoy a little bit of the latter before you check out the former with Sketch Me, head over to the David Massingham Comedy page on Facebook to get a look-see at some great online content. Sure, thereâs only one sketch up at time of writing, but the other three canât be far off. Impress all your friends by predicting that theyâll be uploaded in week-and-a-half to two week increments.
5. Weâve made a mistake and thereâs nothing in this show related to the number FIVE.
Sorry, this top five list has let you down most terribly. We only hope this doesnât reflect poorly on Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls, which is a very good show indeed and contains much less material about 20th century art than this write-up would suggest.
Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls is on at Tasma Terrace March 28 – April 8
https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2018/shows/sketch-me-like-one-of-your-french-girls