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Caloroga Shark Media Mappy Easter. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I thought i’d try something new today. Since it’s Easter, with people on holiday mode, the numbers will be down a little bit, so I’m like, all right, this will be a fun day to try something different. It’s festival seasoned down in Australia.
The Melbourne Festival will just starting to get in a full swing and then the Sydney Festival will follow that up. The Australian ABC asked a bunch of comedians what other comedians they were into. So what today is going to be is me rattling off comedians. I’d be stunned if you’ve heard of anybody I mentioned today. Of the entire list, there was only one comedian on the entire list that I was familiar with.
So this is educational for me. I’ve pulled a lot of clips, so it’s going to be me talking, then say a minute from everybody. I thought it might be interesting to learn about some new comedians. A couple observations as I put this together. So many comedians with Hey I’m from insert town you never heard of.
Hey I’m from scalawawrogu. Have you guys heard of it? They all do that same joke. It’s very strange, and then they either slam Melbourne or Sydney.
Also, as I pull these clips, I want to be fair to the comics.
I’m pulling a minute or so and usually their first minute. So if you’re listening to this podcast, do you understand how comedy works and things ebb and flow, So it might not be a fair representation of their work. But I also don’t want to play, you know, thirty minute clips from people. Mel Buddle was working as a high school teacher in Brisbane when she made it to the Raw Comedy National Final in two thousand and eight. She was twenty sixteen.
She didn’t win, but she said it fell at Christmas. I had my first flat white and ate at Pellegreenies. I was completely swept up in the magic of the comedy Festival. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It blew me away.
Little o Me a mere mortal was in the same sushi shop as David o’dherty. Here is mel Buddle at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Note the local humor and wow, wait this is nice. Nice to be here. Isn’t it.
Because I live in a place called Ipswich in Queensland, so whoo yes, And it’s nice to be somewhere nice. If you haven’t been to Whipswitch in Queensland, it’s a little bit of a bit polv right, it’s a bit of a rat hole, like I don’t know what your nearest rat hole is. Let’s just I don’t know. We’ll say Sydney for now. There’s no there’s no purebred dogs.
You know those suburbs where everything’s a Staffie cross, Staffy goss Kelpie staffa goss border Collie and I Staffy goss laborat or some of the kids are Staffy cross. There’s no purebred dogs. We can’t afford them. And if you do see one, it’s a German shepherd. That’s a police dog.
Out of the way. Ah. That was Melbutle, who says I really love brownwind Cuss. Whenever she’s available, I ask her to open for me. She’s dry as a bone with a deadpan delivery that really allows her brilliant joke writing to shine through.
She has a joke about Tina Or that makes me chuckle on myself on a weekly basis. Here is that joke from the Melbourne Comedy Festival twenty twenty three. All right, I’ll go first. I guess I think you’ve got to be careful what you say to people, right, Like some stuff, some stuff really sticks. Yeah, Like for me, when I was fifteen, someone said to me, she said, hey, you know Tina Arena.
I said, yeah, I know, Tina Arena. She said, well Tina not even her real name. Her real name Pena, Pena Arena. If anyone out there is waiting for a punchline, it’s Peena Arena. Reese Nicholson says, in terms of a lovely schmorgasboard of new babies, I feel professionally threatened by Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Comedy Zone is always a sure thing.
Here’s Reese Nicholson at the Sydney Comedy Festival. It is so genuinely nice to be like out and about doing things again, like because remember at the beginning of everything a few years ago, and let’s not talk about it, but like at the beginning of everything, i’d friends when the lockdown started, I’d friends that really used that time. I don’t think I’ve ever used time like I’d friends that like you know, you got really fit during the lockdowns, transformed their bodies. Me. No, I’ve been in a relationship with the same man for over a decade.
At the beginning of the pandemic, we locked the doors and we started drinking like it was jonestown, Like I oh, I’ve never given up with such a band and in my entire life, like what a thrill. I reckon for six to nine months. So the closest we came to any kind of exercise was we once tried to have sex under a weighted blanket, and it’s the least anxious I’ve been during sex. An agent recent Joris is Luca Miller and says I wouldn’t really call him an up and coming anymore, but Luca Miller always needs more attention. His show this year has a wonderfully Bonker’s conceit.
He’s a good boy. Here is Luca Miller. He did everyone have a good Christmas? It’s pretty deep into the year for that question, for sure. Middle of April, I had a great Christmas.
I went back to the town that I grew up in. I grew up in regional Victoria, a town called a Chuka. Do you guys know a Chuka. Yes, yes, yes, that’s good. People always have some connection to it.
A few weeks ago go I was like, I’ve been there. I was like, what did you do there? He goes, I’ve played paintball and I don’t know anyone knows, but quite a good thing happened at the paintball place in a Shuga a few years ago. So I was like, cool, man, when was that when it was a paintball He’s like, oh, maybe about five years ago. I’m like, that’s good.
And it makes sense because three years ago the guy who ran the paintball place and a chooka went to jail for selling math and he said, yeah, when I was there, he tried to sell me math. Beautiful town, most intense payball games in the state. Nina Oyama says, I love being asked for recommendations because there are so many great up and coming comedians who deserve your attention and money.
Now here’s Nina.
As I listen to, I’ll tell you what I think afterwards. Hey, hey guys, oh my god, I didn’t expect so much supplause. This is really cool. Yeah, it’s really cool. I love I love Sydney, I love living here.
But Before I moved to Sydney, I lived in Bathist. Has anyone heard of Bathist? All right? Yeah, Bathist is Like it’s like famous for the car racing, you know, like the Bathist one thousand races, and less famous for like the Bathist one thousand racists. But oh, I’m half Asian, by the way, Like that’s why my face is weird.
Yeah, my dad’s Japanese. So he flew hey blue here and then I agree here, taut looks I didn’t want to poison your brain there. I feel like she’s reciting her material rather than performing it. I’m not a performer. I feel like she’s memorial Obviously everyone’s memorized their act, but for example, I’m working off my coworker of mine used to call it script helper.
I’m not totally reading to you. I’m looking at the words and I’m trying to talk them. I feel like she has memorized everything and is just reciting it, if that makes sense me. And it’s all the ABC. It’s an incredible feeling to witness a new comedian’s rise to fame, and an even better feeling when he gets a smugly say I saw them back at twenty twenty four when they performed at a venue that’s used as a carpet store room for the other eleven months of the year.
I do that, Guilty, Guilty. This is more common than you think, and to their credit, carpet roots do make surprisingly good settings for comedy. Anyway, take a punt on any of these shows. They are well worth your while and many are in actual proper venues. You’ve heard me say this before about comedy fests, like if you want to see Chris Rock, Chris Rock’s great, you can also see Chris Rock on Netflix.
Go see Somebody Haven’t heard of? She recommends. Alexandra Hudson. I like this clip a lot from the Melbourne Comedy Festival. A little bit about me.
I was born Sandwich between my brother and my sister, so each year on our birthday, I call and thank them for the brain damage. You can laugh, they’re not here, Yeah, so that’d make me crip lead. People always ask me what it’s like being a triplet, but honestly, I’ve got more in common with my ninety six year old grandmother then I do my fellow triplets, because me and my grandmother we show a lot of the same ailments like she has bunions and I have bunyans. She uses a walker. I used to use a walker.
She often pushed me around on her walker when I can’t be bothered walking anymore. Yeah, we have a really great thing going. We sit back all everyone in our family does everything for us. Next up we have Zoe comes More. Here she is at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
And what I like is she comes right out and starts, no work in the audience, just grabs the make boom and we’re in. So you know, when you’re on magic mushrooms, you know he knows, and yeah he knows, and you know that thing, right, that thing that happens. You know, say you take the mushrooms at like eight forty five and then four and a half hours later it’s eight forty six. What’s up with that? That’s what twenty twenty was like.
My girlfriend and I moved to Melbourne at the beginning of twenty twenty. It’s weird because we’ve lived in Sydney for about fifteen years, but somehow we’ve lived in Melbourne longer. So weird. Yes, I did, it’s a girlfriend. I am a lesbian.
Best to clarify that early. It can be confusing, can’t it? Like? Is she lesbian or just from the country boat? Hey?
Double? Where me? I am very high up in my coven. Will Zoe recommends Lou Wall. Lou’s been doing great stuff for years and their show this year is the wrongest list of life affirming, dumb stuff you never know you needed, delivered via internet memes and musical comedy by an eight foot talk queer comic from Kuma.
What morek could you want?
Also?
I directed that one, so don’t let it put you off. Unfortunately there is no clip of Lou Wall available, but the show’s called The bisexuals Lament and it’ll be at the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney Comedy Festivals. It’s next guy. I like a lot. I did make an edit here because of an F bomb, but boy he’s got presence.
This is Dilbrook Jaya Sinna. I believe, I hope I got that right. It’s truly nice to be back back on stage, back in Melbourne. I actually, I actually one of the few people that get to say it’s nice to be back in Australia because I’m one of the lucky people that just flew internationally Yeah, I just got in from Perth and it’s just nice to be back on home soil two years of a pandemic. Two years ago.
I was the last sort of international flight I took, and that was to South Africa to go into a jungle for the TV show I’m a celebrity, Get me out of here. But when I went in, they were going to change the name too. Is he a celebrity? Should he be here? I had a small profile, right, and of course they start kicking people off the show, and the bigger the profile you have, the longer you stay because the audience picks up the phone votes for the people they like.
Right now, I still knew that I was going to go all the way to the end, and that’s not arrogance. I just know how the game works because it’s voted by the Aussie public that these days consist of so many immigrants. Haha. You think people from India, Schulankan, pakistan A voting for Randa Birch. It’s like that meme you know, Carol’s by candlelight curries by candlelight Steel.
Rox says, there are two bronze that I’m in awe of bron Lewis has only been doing comedy for a handful of years, but her command of the stage and skills and make you think she’s a seasoned veteran who’s been doing stand up for decades. And the joke writing in Bronwin Cuss, a show last year, made my own material feel like an open micer’s. We heard braun Win Cuss earlier. Here’s bron Lewis at the Melbourne Festival in twenty twenty three. A lot of buzz on her and she is the one comic I had heard of before I put this together.
Note I did take out a short phrase of her material here because of an F bomb. Heh, Hello, Hello God, it’s good to be out. I am living with a blunke at the moment who doesn’t speak English. I know this is very unpopular to say, but it’s really annoying. I mean, he has only just turned two.
You’ve been here your whole life. You know, I similate you, baby. You know we’re trying to teach him how to speak English. We are we trying to We’re teaching him words he needs to know to survive, you know, because we do want him to survive. He’s a beautiful baby.
We love him so much, but mostly we want him to survive because we don’t want to start again. You know, we are. We’re teaching where to survive, like food. When he’s hungry, he says food, great, nailed it. When he’s thirsty, We’re trying to teach him how to say water.
It’s having a hard time with that one. Because we pronounce it water, he pronounces it puta. That’s a bit funny because the cultured people in the room, we know that puta in Spanish means whore. Love it back in a second. Will Anderson up next.
This is a Greek clip. I had to make several edits for the f bombs, but hopefully you get the gist here. Love this clip. I tried not to get mad at the Americans for making stuff up about our country, because, let’s be honest, I also make up stuff about our country, particularly when I’m overseas, because people think I’m an expert in Australia just because I’m from here. But you don’t know everything about here just because you’re from here and they want to know about stuff it’s not my area of expertise.
They don’t ask me about the dark Knight trilogy. They asked me about like Koalas. I’m like, well, I can tell you about doctor who. They’re like, no, Koalas, that’s all they want to know. And I’ve been spreading misinformation because I didn’t really I wasn’t an expert, and I just was passing on what i’d heard.
And I’d heard this is my favorite thing I’d heard about Koala’s was they sleep eighteen to twenty two hours a day. And the reason they sleep eighteen to twenty two hours a day is you canalypt as leaves. I only give them enough nutrition to be awake for the remaining hours. But the reason they like you canalypt as leaves is you calypt as leves get them high. And I was like, I love Koala’s high half.
I was like, that is the best evolutionary choice of all time. One day, one Koala’s looked at the other Koala and gone, hey, Bill, you know what, after our next nap, get out of the tree and get some more nutritious thing and then we could like work more during the day. And Bill’s like, We’ve made our choice, mate. We’ve sleep fight in to twenty two hours and then we get high and we hang out in a tree and we’ll like, oh my god, I’m fluffy. Why are you making trouble?
Mike? Why are you I failing this? Will says I think of all the shows I saw last year’s Melbourne, Bronwin Cuss was my favorite. Right, that’s the third time Bronwin’s been mentioned. Such a relaxed style and great jokes.
Lou Wall is definitely a new favorite. Their Facebook marketplace piece is genius and I’m looking forward to seeing a whole hour of them. Tom Walker has been around for a while now, but still one of the most inventive and surprising comedians on the scene. I think Prue Blake is definitely someone to watch, great smart jokes in a dry delivery. Here’s Prue at Melbourne.
I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship recently. Friendship it’s meant to be the thing that makes your life better, right, But for me, it’s just been very hard and difficult to maintain. And like, I know, like I was never the popular girl in school. I was never that hot girl, you know, the girl that kind of like marched to the beat of her own drum, like everyone wanted to do what she was doing. Everyone wanted to wear what she was wearing.
Everyone wanted to say what she was saying. You know, she marched that beat of her own drum, but the beat of her drum was the BPM that makes house music people go absolutely feral. She had like, did your school have that girl? No? If your answer is no, then you were that girl.
And I’m thrilled that you came. So I’m Gleason. Clip next from Melbourne twenty seventeen. I had to make several edits for f bombs. Here the topic is the Wiggles.
I don’t like the setup. I don’t know if you know they’ve done They’ve rebooted it. I’ll talk you through it. This is what they’re doing now right Anthony, he’s still there at the Blue Wiggle, He’s still there right. Then there’s Simon.
He’s the Red Wiggle. He used to be an opera singer or something. He’s like, hello, Kudes, boom boom, boom boom, you’re creeping me out, Simon. You’ve got dead eyes, mate. Then there’s Lockie.
He’s the Purple Wiggle. There’s no Jeff anymore, Lockie, there’s no wake up Jeff anymore. It’s Wyke. Up Lockie doesn’t even sound right? Does it?
Wake up? Lockee? Actually stay asleep. Then there’s Emma. There’s a girl wiggle.
Now there’s a girl wiggle. Now what has his country come to? Wiggling is a man’s job. You can’t trust a woman with this. Tom Gleason tells us, I’ve got one recommendation, and that is Jenny Tann.
I saw her at the Adelaide Fringe. Saw a lot of shows there, maybe twenty shows, and maybe another five shows at the Perth Fringe. It was my favorite out of all them. Jenny’s fresh, she’s young. She was talking about stuff that I don’t think about, which I like.
She’s very funny. Obviously she’s got a good story to tell. She had just gotten into stand up when the pandemic started, so she had to put her plans on hold for a couple of years. In the past the time she did TikTok and accidentally on purpose, became famous, so she’s got this huge TikTok following. It was fascinating when I saw her in Adelaide.
The crowd was on board right from the top, and everybody seemed to know her from TikTok. They already liked her personality, but I think the thing that makes her cut above is that she’s a really good stand up. I’m not on TikTok, and I understood the whole show. I really enjoyed it, so she’s really good at including people. I liked this clip a lot.
This is Jenny Tan at the Melbourne Festival in twenty twenty three. I also like, as I mentioned before, she gets right to it, grabs some Mike goes, doesn’t go like, hey, Melbourne, how we don’t just boom right into the material? That’s how I like my comics to do it. I wanted to play a lot more from her, but she started to get a little dirty about boobs, so I had to cut this a little shorter than I wanted to. But I like this a lot.
Allo, you are such a beautiful audience. By the way, not all audiences are so nice, right Like, I did a gig the other day and there was actually someone that came up to me after the show and they were like, you know, your English is actually quite good, and I found that very condescending because it was my mom. So I’d be curious with what you thought of today’s episode. Hopefully you enjoyed. It’s something a little different and you got a lot more stand up than you usually get.
Let me know in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group would be curious at what you thought of today’s show. All right, normal episodes tomorrow there’s something a little different to break things up. Happy Easter and I’ll see you tomorrow