I am a big fan of stand up comedy and comedians though I don’t get to see live comedy often enough due to the need to you know, stay home and write words. For a long time, my favourite comedian has been Billy Connolly. I’ve seen him a few times live but not for a while so when I found out he was touring this year, my reaction was SQUEEEEEE and point me to the booking site.
My second favourite comedian is probably Eddie Izzard. When I found out he was also touring this year, I spent about two seconds doing a snoopy dance to thank the comedy tour gods and booked tickets.
(Apparently pinky purple and blue are in colours for comedy shows this year 😀 .)
My third favourite comedian is Tim Minchin (hmmm, Eddie and Tim, maybe I have a thing for red headed very funny, very smart guys who rock a bit of eyeliner. Tim also ticks the musician box.). He is also making a rare visit back to Oz this year to do stand up but for one night only in Sydney and I missed out on tickets for that one. Two out of three ain’t bad, I guess. And I did see him in Jesus Christ Superstar last year. So I can wait to see him to stand up. Just.
Anyway, I headed off to see Billy on January 30th and laughed a lot. Though it was a tad bittersweet as Billy is now seventy two and though he is as funny as ever, he is not the same fireball of energy he was when I first saw him in the nineties (and watched via TV since well before then). The energy is still there and the wit and irreverent attitude is still there but he’s just a little calmer. But I shall live in denial that Billy is any older (or that I am for that matter) and hope I get to see him again.
And then I headed off to Eddie on February the ninth and laughed a lot as well. Both Eddie and Billy are both more from the rambling storyteller school of comedy more than jokes. Eddie has a few more set bits than Billie but still goes off on tangents. Plus he gigs in French and German and apparently is learning Spanish. Which is hard to wrap one’s head around. One of my favourite of his sketches has always been Death Star canteen.
And this tour, he did the sequel. Pang! Happy making. Note to self, see some more comedy this year. Also, someone please arrange for Tim to tour Melbourne please.
