I’m not really feeling like myself after last night.
Archive for the 'funny' Category
30
Nov
10
Out of this world
18
Nov
10
Movember – 16 days
Here’s my Mo at 16 days. It’s looking better, though “better” is a relative term.
Don’t forget, I’m doing this to raise funds and awareness about prostate cancer (did you know it can usually be done by blood test now, guys, not The Finger™?) and men’s depression (it’ll happen to a lot of us). You can learn more about these issues, about Movember, and donate to me or my work team by clicking here.
30
Oct
10
Rhys Darby at the Enmore Theatre
Most will know him (if they know him at all) as Murray Hewitt, the bumbling band manager from Flight of the Conchords, but Rhys Darby has long been a standup comic. I caught him do his new show, “It’s Rhys Darby Night”, at the Enmore Theatre this week. He gets his laugh via a mixture of impressions and surreal physicality (his dinosaurs and malfunctioning Transformers make a couple of appearances). His act now includes the travails of being a simple Kiwi in Hollywood, with gangstas and bank voice systems that don’t understand his accent. Darby’s jokes are almost all very good-natured (even when he’s being foul-mouthed), which means that you don’t feel bad laughing along with him.
24
Sep
10
The Ballad of Backbone Joe
I’m just back from seeing a great bit of theatre: The Ballad of Backbone Joe is playing at the Sydney Theatre Company. If you like oddball tales of murder, country blues and roots jazz, and hilarious surreal humour, then you need to get tickets right away: it only runs to October 2nd.
This is what the theatre’s website says, and I can’t say it better:
The Ballad of Backbone Joe tells a twisted tale of the apparent death, the murder no less, of a woman in a blood red dress. Set in the roaring carnival days of prewar Australia, in a small town’s abattoir and boxing emporium, the tale unfolds through jigsaw narrative, film, visual trickery, bone-crunching slapstick, dark humour and the unique Rag ‘n’ Bone music and junkyard aesthetic of Melbourne-based, internationally acclaimed, trio The Suitcase Royale. Contra bass, banjo, guitar, accordion, drums and the ghostly voice of a reddressed vixen carry this broken-down truck of a show down the windy road of revenge.
Is it silly and unpolished? Of course. Do the band – who are also the actors – screw up and have a laugh with the audience about it? Naturally. Is it top-to-bottom charming and fun? Is it ever. I gut-laughed more than a few times, and my toe rarely stopped tapping.
Go see it, tickets are $30 max. I had a front-row centre seat tonight, you should have no problem.
I said a quick hello to The Suitcase Royale afterwards and bought their CD (remember those?). One of those tracks – and it’s one from the play – is in my Box, on the right-hand side of my music blog, if you want to have a listen. The band are playing a free gig at the Wharf restaurant in the theatre complex tomorrow night, too.
The Suitcase Royale in The Ballad of Backbone Joe. Click the image for their Edinburgh Fringe review from the Guardian
29
Jul
10
Bank scams
Finally! After all those years of email bank scams, the problem has been sorted and we can expect compensation. I just received an email, which I’ve pasted below, about this. Thank goodness!
UNITED NATION/CENTRAL BANK
CENTRAL BANK/UNITED NATIONS 2009/2010 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
DIRECTORATTN: BENEFICIARIES
This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS/BRITISH GOVERNMENT to pay 150 victims of scam $;100,000 DOLLARS (One Hundred Thousand DOLLARS) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $100,000 DOLLAR compensations funds.
On this faithful recommendations, you are inform that during the last U.N. meetings held at ABUJA, NIGERIA, it was alarming on the money lost by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the UNITED NATIONS Bodies and NIGERIA GOVERNMENT is now paying 150 victims $100,000 DOLLAR each in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in NIGERIA, the payments are to be paid by Central Bank OF Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by The Rabo Bank, based in United kingdom. for funds remittance. Benefactor of this compensation will have to be first cleared and recommended for payment by Central Bank Of Nigeria,
According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, over a half of the victims are from the United States,Australia and Canada, we still have a pending of 36 compensations left to be paid. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secrete service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration
To enable your compensation to be processed, you are required to make available the below requirements which enables the prompt payment of your COMPENSATION to this office
1. Full Names:
2. Date Of Birth:
3. Telephone Number:
4. Total Amount Defrauded (For record keep):
5.Any Mode of identification (Drivers License or work ID)
6. Payment Option (WIRE TRANSFER OR CHECK/DRAFT):
NOTE: You are to take note of option 1&6 respectively.On the provision of the requirements, your will be processed on your payment option and remitted to you as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
UNITED NATION COMPENSATION
EMAIL: unitednations_transfer@yahoo.com.hk
NOTE: The UN/Nigeria Government will decline any other complains of scam
should you fall victim again after this compensations is paid and transferred to you
At the Twestival the other night I met a very nice Australian woman who helped out as a volunteer. Her name was Casey Finigan.
11
Feb
10
Come with me if you want to live
Someone at work doesn’t have enough to keep them busy.
23
Jan
10
Isy Suttie
Just back from another Sydney Festival event: this time, British comedienne Isy Suttie’s solo show Love Lost in the British Retail Industry. Suttie will be known to geek fetishists in the UK as Dobby from Channel 4′s Peep Show.
This solo show – which she’s toured in the UK for a couple of years – is about some odd characters and their relationships. There were some laughs from wry observations, though most of them were from funny characterisations. It was quirky and very musical and a bit lightweight and just an hour long.
Suttie stopped in the pub across the street after the show, just as we did. Recognising that creating and performing is always a tough and admirable thing to do, I made sure to go over and thank her for her performance.
Isy Suttie
17
Sep
09
Laughing at funny names
There are three names that always make me laugh when they’re mentioned on BBC Radio 4 (and they’re mentioned quite often):
- Chief of the Defence Staff of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, Sir Jock Stirrup
- British Secretary of State in the Department for Transport, Lord Adonis
- Cabinet Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls
I’m such a child.
16
Jul
09
Karaoke pics
Remember Qype Karaoke the other night? The pictures are indeed as fearsome as I’d…well, feared.
Siany and I sing Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is"
Dav and I sing AC/DC's "Back In Black"
