Rhys Nicholson, Cameron James, Geraldine Quinn, Wil Anderson and Nath Valvo unpack why Australian comedy is making an unexpected turn towards the earnest.
The comedian set out to tell a Boogie Nights-style story about working in a theatre restaurant in Newcastle in 2009 – where he sang Robbie Williams songs while dressed as Pirates of the Caribbean's Captain Jack Sparrow.
"I was just watching it and thinking, 'I have no idea who this guy is, or what he cares about, or what he feels about anything.'" "The moment you stand up on stage and say, 'But there is one person I care about and it's my wife,' everyone's like, 'Shut up!,'" James says with a laugh. " about how we hold that person with us as we keep moving forward: for me, as I keep performing and doing the very thing that we both dreamed of doing as kids."
"I would rather you know how much my brother meant to me and that he's dead than not know anything about him. Because from my point of view, he's part of who I am and it feels weird to me that everybody I meet from March 5th 2019 onwards will never know him." Perhaps best known as host of ABC TV's Gruen, Wil Anderson has been performing stand-up for 30 years. For at least the last decade, he says his shows have had a celebratory bend."Before we were probably all just trying to think of the next joke and the next take on whatever topical thing was happening," he says.
"Something that I've always really admired about him is that he's more than happy to be in jokes and let me throw our relationship under the bus a little bit sometimes and talk about very intimate things," they say.Nath Valvo also often finds material in his 10-year relationship with his partner Cody. In fact, his show this year, Anyway, Back to Me, was structured around their wedding in January 2023.
"I try my hardest never to be like, 'Queer relationships are like this, straight relationships are like this,'" they say.
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