Stand up comedy in Wellington

On Monday 5th August one of the Yellow Fever family will be doing stand up comedy at Fringe Bar as part of Raw Meat Monday, and I shall be there to watch and support.  Suggest you all do the same.

http://thefringebar.co.nz/newspost/raw-meat-monday/

I'm going to be away otherwise would have been keen. Good luck to whoever it is. It's not easy to get up in front of an audience and tell jokes.

Will they be explaining their gags, Frankie?

the gags i have heard (well, the same gag on 2 different occassions) need no explanation.

So they're quite cerebral jokes then?

Who is it?

So now we have an in joke about a joker who jokes?

Respect.

Come on the 5th and see

"Hot legs! When's opening time?"

I thought this was a thread about last season...

My memories of last season are more like a Pantomime rather than a comedy...

PASTON: Where's the ball?

AUDIENCE: Behind You! Behind You!

You could call it a Pasto-mime!!!

I know who it is!

Should be a fun night ...

Will there be a gag sheet so I can follow it word for word?

Are they Ginger?

Told the wife, she is very excited and will be coming along as well. That means a crowd of at least 3

not long to go for this, so thought it was worth another bump.  Mad props to the person doing this - takes a lot of courage to stand up in front of strangers and try to make them laugh - so hopefully a load of people from here will get along to support them. 

they are not ginger (unless they have dyed their hair since I saw them last week).

The Fringe bar has changed location.

It is now at 26 Allen St (formerly the Kiwi pub, formerly the Courtenay Arms, etc.)

It obviously had to move to a bigger location - good signs.

Hopefully loads of people will get out to have a look at this tonight, supporting one of the fever's biggest supporters since day 1.

Is it Steve-O?

no. 

So normal folk would just say who it is and when they are playing. Unless it's you what's the  problem?  I support kiwi comedy and it really needs help. So stop being a twat and just say who it is. Stand-up comedians need all the help they can get - you are not helping

Nobody would even know which act the YF person is. Hard to have incentive to turn up to support someone if you don't even know who it is or which act it is. 

Good on whoever it is though. Something I've always wanted to do but never had the balls to. 

Really?

It is not me, it is Bevan.  Satisfied?

By not saying who it was, and having the odd person guess (and me respond) it was keeping the thread bumped and at the top of the page. I didn't think that people were going to go or not go based on who it was from here (no offence Bevan) so didn't think I was being a twat about it.

Look forward to seeing you there tonight FT - I will buy you a beer.

ffs if you'd just asked me earlier who it was I would have ffs told you ffs.

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Is Fortean Times the same person as Jeff Vader?  No, so fuck off.

Well, I've never seen them in the same room as one another. So I'm not ruling anything out.

Is Fortean Times the same person as Jeff Vader?  No, so fuck off.

fucked it up?  This thread is a hive of activity at the moment, creating the kind of buzz around the event that Bevan could have only dreamed of (no offence Bevan).  With the increased numbers expected tonight, I wouldn't be surprised if Bevan is as nervous now as when he came back to our shared room in SA and found that I pushed the beds together.

tough weekend FT?

This thread is setting a very high standard for Bevan to beat.

Unless, of course, this is all just a piece of post-modern performance art actually orchestrated by Bevan, in which case, well done - fucking brilliant!

Very entertaining either way.

thank you very much, you've been a great audience, don't forget to tip your waitress.

Awwwww, bless.