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Two years ago we went to the MICF showing of John Robertson’s A Nifty History of Evil,a delightfully macabre little show.

John is back in town with his new show Blood & Charm,which was a smashing success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

It’s an amazingly grim, yet somehow very amusing mix of bedtime stories and personal anecdotes for very fucked up people (i.e. regular readers of this blog…. or as regular as you would be if there were more regular posts, but I’ll still blame you for this… somehow). Jokes about being a child’s entertainer that gets to punch a child in the face at a party. Childrens’ fairytales about how little matchstick girls fall into solipsistic doubt before freezing to death. Anecdotes about his previous girlfriend that liked razors more than Johnny Depp or how his father that happened to be a massive fan of slipknots (not the band). The kind of thing that would make a genuininely good childrens book for adults like Go The Fuck To Sleep.

Even without the manic grin that can only be likened to Death putting on a flesh mask, it is all genuinely funny. There is no need for nervous laughter or the “I’m laughing because the only other option is crying” sort of chuckles because John has managed to find a perfect form of self-deprecation that can only be termed “autoschadenfreude”. If you are going to see a show at the comedy festival, it better bloody well be So You’ve Decided To Host An Orgy, but if you’re going to see more than one, then this better be on the list as well.

Shows are only daily at 10pm at the Victorian Trades Hall in Carlton.

Tickets ($20/$15conc) are available through the MICF website and box office or at the Trades Hall box office.

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As some of you may know, I do stand up comedy.

This year shit has gotten real and I actually have a show in this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival titled So You’ve Decided To Host An Orgy.

The show itself is rather obvious in its content. Myself, and dominar Luke Bleeser (one of the Hosts of Neo Fetigoth nightclub) actually put forth an educational lecture, complete with audio/visual presentation, on how to host a group sex activity. It just so happens that there are many, many things that can and will go wrong when attempting to organise such an event, and that these problems and pitfalls happen to be hilarious.

We’ve already been described in the official MICF 2012 guide as one of the filthiest shows this year has to offer, so you should probably get a kick out of it.

The show is running Tuesday through Saturday for two weeks, kicking off April 10th at the FAD Gallery

Tickets are $15/$12conc at the door (if any are left that night) or online through either the MICF page listing or the Blernshaw Comedy website.

 

I was recently put on to this cartoon by a good comedian friend of mine, Michael Connell. Considering he’s a clean comedian, I’m not sure how it fits into his media diet. I have a mental image of him secretly delighting in all the crass humour, innuendo, and straight up fuckeduptitude that this show puts forth.

Think of a world where demons, vampires, wizards, monsters and robots have lived in society all along. It’s kind of like Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld in the modern era. Imagine what New York City would be like if that had been the way of society all along. There! You have Comedy Central’s new animated series: Ugly Americans.

The series focuses on Mark Lilly, a human social worker at the Department of Integration. He’s charged with getting various immigrants and non-humans to become naturalised in the way of American life. Unfortunately, his girlfriend is also a demon and happens to be in charge of HR, whilst their branch manager is yet another demon who consistently is looking for ways to get rid of Lilly. Combined with a resentful, alcoholic wizard as a partner, and a zombie that’s going through brain withdrawals as a house mate, it’s a fun little romp.

So far the show has two seasons and with the exception of the first episode, it doesn’t particularly matter if you watch them in or out of sequence. They’re almost entirely episodic, similar to The Simpsons, which in some ways is a pity as there’s clearly scope for a long running series. The animation style is somewhat similar to Daria, and the humour is fairly reminiscent as well… if Daria perhaps lived in Bon Temps.

Here’s a clip!

Ugly Americans	Thursdays 10:30/9:30c
Mark Lilly, Action Hero
www.comedycentral.com
New Episodes Oct 6, 10:30pm/9:30c Department of Integration Field Guide