The WTF! Show: Censored

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Fri 01 Apr 2022 - Sat 23 Apr 2022

The WTF?! Show: Censored

Even if you are a big fan of comedy and humour, the name Finley Dunn may not mean much to you, but it should. He was a large man who was the first to step on stage and poke fun at himself directly addressing the audience and he called himself a 'stand-up comedian' in the first decade of the last century, starting a genre of comedy that thrived and flourished through comics like Milton Berle, Max Miller, Bob Hope, Les Dawson to today's giants - Billy Connelly, Michael MacIntyre, Jimmy Carr, Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Lliza Shlesinger, Sarah Milligan and many more.As any performer will tell you, stand-up is the very hardest and scariest kind of performance as you stand alone, on stage, without a script, without any support and only your personality as a shield.The greats make it look easy but it isn't and to get to the top, even to get onto the way to the top, is incredibly hard, involving many hours performing in pubs, against brick walls, fighting to be noticed on 'open mic' nights against the footy on TV and punter clamouring for alcohol.Open mic nights and comedy festivals are the proving grounds for stand-up and a venue to be seen. One such group is the WFT Show , comprising of Mick Moore, Milton White and JNewtz, who has a delightful singing voice.Together they have produced a show called Censored comprising of a mix of several types of comedy - there is live stand-up (from the Melbourne Comedy Festival this year), pre-recorded sketches heavily satiric in tone and a couple of excellent parodies to My Way and Mr Sandman to some very funny lyrics about the Russo-Ukraine War and Covid -19.The three are on their way up, no doubt and the show is not called Censored for no reason - language my mother would have called 'salty' and my granny wouldn't have understood at all is used freely, including the f word, the c-word and the n-word.The stand up is mostly standard observational, although Milton White has a very nice line in one-liners, reminiscent of Gary Delany and Milton Jones. It's very contemporary (Will Smith gets a mention) and fresh, and almost entirely original.It's easy to point out areas where the tempo slows, the joke is belaboured or could be tightened up and the point dragged out, but the ideas are there, the passion is there, the anger at the ways things are, but shouldn't be is there – the essentials of good comedy.As we say 'see them now while they're young and cheap.' Recommended.

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!date 01/04/2022 -- 23/04/2022
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