Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a podcast. My podcast A debrief
Speaker 1: where I get people in the car and I've got
Speaker 1: Brad Oaks in the back. Killo, he's in the back.
Speaker 1: He's only in the front. And Henry wait, but what
Speaker 1: do we Henry yam, Well, we debrief after the gig.
Speaker 2: Gone for a drive to a little gig. Then drive
Speaker 2: with golden debris. It's golden debre, it's golden tree.
Speaker 1: It's golden treeld And so we talked before the gig
Speaker 1: and we talk about what we think it's going to
Speaker 1: be like, and then we do the gig, and then
Speaker 1: we get in the car. We talk about the gig
Speaker 1: to it sounds like you.
Speaker 3: Never to it.
Speaker 1: But that's all right. It doesn't matter. You don't have to.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 4: I do like how this podcast has two penguins.
Speaker 1: I got two penguins in my car. That's my favorite animal?
Speaker 1: Is it the penguin? Oh?
Speaker 4: Man, that's good.
Speaker 1: Penguins.
Speaker 4: They're pretty chill.
Speaker 3: They are.
Speaker 5: I read somewhere that I can't remember what racist people
Speaker 5: call it, but they call the penguin the business goose.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny. I love the business goose. Now, Brad,
Speaker 1: tell everyone where we're going we're.
Speaker 3: Heading to We're going to an R. S.
Speaker 1: L Eristle, which okay, so now give the mic back
Speaker 1: to Henry because we're going to get I don't know
Speaker 1: if Henry would even you know, where are you from?
Speaker 1: You're in New Zealand right here?
Speaker 4: Yeahs, I just had an idea. I need it write down.
Speaker 1: I've got an idea. Hang, this is we're seeing the
Speaker 1: magic happening in front of us. Brad was he writing down? Penguin, penguin, goose?
Speaker 1: I can't read that.
Speaker 4: I just wrote, penguin is all Torso. I thought, yeah,
Speaker 4: the penguin is all Torso thought, that's a very funny idea,
Speaker 4: like most.
Speaker 1: Like most birds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah birds, Henry.
Speaker 1: Where are you from? New Zealand?
Speaker 4: Auckland?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've been in Auckland. Yeah yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: went to make I went to New Zealand in the seventies.
Speaker 1: My dad when he retired from the Air Force, he
Speaker 1: got his super and and we went on a Kenticky
Speaker 1: tour of New Zealand.
Speaker 4: Oh Dad's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And but Kentucky was It wasn't like just young
Speaker 1: people routing each other. There are other there are other
Speaker 1: families on the bath by memory.
Speaker 4: Well, how you went with your dad?
Speaker 1: Mum and dad? Yeah, and my brothers. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: in grade four A. Yeah, seventies. It would have been
Speaker 1: like nineteen seventy.
Speaker 5: In New Zealand. That sounds like you're practicing to go
Speaker 5: on a proper ent Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the continued tour was only on the north
Speaker 1: end of South Island. Dad and man, I've got a van.
Speaker 1: We drove around.
Speaker 4: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: But and I remember it was amazing. New Zealand was incredible.
Speaker 4: It's the best place in the world.
Speaker 1: Why aren't you there?
Speaker 4: Ah? Yeah, people tend.
Speaker 1: To leave, you know. But they were all, well, there's
Speaker 1: so many keyweks here doing well.
Speaker 4: That's because only the good ones make it up.
Speaker 1: Well true. Some were saying, I can't remember it was
Speaker 1: Ray O Lee or someone was telling me you go
Speaker 1: back to New Zealand. The scene's on me good anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because all your fuckers are over here now. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The thing about Ray he's so hacked, Like, man, I
Speaker 4: hate that this podcast.
Speaker 1: We know you're joking. We know you guys all meet
Speaker 1: on a Monday night and plan out down for we
Speaker 1: do we do you have a white Ball with O'Neill
Speaker 1: Oaks's photos up there. These two guys are easy targets.
Speaker 4: Well, however, already taking you guys out?
Speaker 1: Okay, what's the plan.
Speaker 5: It's with their wide combs. It's like when they the
Speaker 5: Hearers came over in the eighties and yeah, took everyone out.
Speaker 1: They wants to play with mellow. You get a TV show,
Speaker 1: good one, good one, and just employ other. New Zealand
Speaker 1: is very good, very good. Who's going to suck up
Speaker 1: to the working gog people? I'm onto it?
Speaker 4: Have you seen on Swelling?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true. Guy, another show to take her?
Speaker 1: Come up with a spelling show? Yes, yes, who's Maybe
Speaker 1: he's the captain, Maybe he's the general?
Speaker 4: Is here the general? Yeah? I thought so.
Speaker 1: And you're one of the workers. Americanody tries to get
Speaker 1: to the meeting, but she doesn't make it very often
Speaker 1: because she's really busy.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, I'm just the cleaner, you know, I'm there.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm here if you need.
Speaker 1: And there must be a few guys that win don't
Speaker 1: even know that they're just going why and I famous
Speaker 1: I'm key Another factor guy in the Comedy Festival Melbourne
Speaker 1: recently did a show called Another Key we comedian. Who
Speaker 1: was that? That was? That was? Yeah? I'm like, what
Speaker 1: there's one that isn't famous?
Speaker 4: Well, it's crazy because Kimi comics are liked here, but
Speaker 4: in new.
Speaker 1: They're yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a cultural cringe. It's
Speaker 1: probably the same with the Yeah yeah, but we can't
Speaker 1: go to where can we go? Though? We can't go anywhere?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could probably go UK. They might like you.
Speaker 1: I've done the UK, You've done a UK brad Avenue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like they kind of like put
Speaker 1: up with you. But I mean I like obviously like
Speaker 1: Adam Hills.
Speaker 5: And I think day over there, yeah, and I think
Speaker 5: there's some kiwi's doing very well over in there.
Speaker 3: Who was that woman? Who one task master?
Speaker 1: Who's that name?
Speaker 3: Is very funny?
Speaker 1: Well? And also old mates you know from the Concords.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Ree Darby, Yeah yeah, he'd be on your
Speaker 1: phone call, he'd be on your meeting. He'd just be
Speaker 1: zooming in there for a few minutes.
Speaker 4: He's yeah, yeah, he's already led the way him in
Speaker 4: the Concords.
Speaker 5: He'd probably be like Charlie and Charlie's Angel just a voice,
Speaker 5: just yeh.
Speaker 1: From Is it really you or is it an AI version? Reese? No, mate,
Speaker 1: it's really lean. It's really bleep on here. I was
Speaker 1: in hunt for The people.
Speaker 4: Were also by news before they gone.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, they were loved by Australians. Yeah, they're very
Speaker 1: fun nice guys too anyway, I mean when they came
Speaker 1: out here anyway. So how long did you comedy in Auckland?
Speaker 4: For? Maybe about there years? This is my fifth year,
Speaker 4: so I think maybe.
Speaker 1: And so you're an engineer?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, by what sort? Mechanical? But I don't
Speaker 4: like it. You know, what did you do?
Speaker 1: You still work as an engineer?
Speaker 4: Yes? You know, I am not big and famous like
Speaker 4: you guys. Sure sure, I don't know to mention. I
Speaker 4: just came from Dave's house and man, one story Maine,
Speaker 4: I would like that's the type of house I would
Speaker 4: like to rob.
Speaker 1: So you're still working as an engineer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's really hard. I need to
Speaker 4: find a part time made yeah yeah yeah yeah, because
Speaker 4: I find like you just don't have enough time, like.
Speaker 1: Well, you be exhausted engineering.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The worst thing is like you're using your your peak
Speaker 4: brain powerful stuff that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Do you work for a big company or the government or.
Speaker 4: Now it's a smaller company.
Speaker 1: Okay, do they know you do comedy?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: Some think he's meant to be funny, this blake. He
Speaker 1: does comedy again with Brad O'Neill on Saturday Night.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: I think the key is when you have a job,
Speaker 4: you don't tell them you do comedy.
Speaker 1: Well, they'll find out they will doing this podcast, and
Speaker 1: then they turn up to your gig. Oh man, but
Speaker 1: you're funny. So if they turn up.
Speaker 5: I found when I started having a job, and when
Speaker 5: I had jobs, telling them when I was a comedian
Speaker 5: excused a lot of things I did badly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, true. And also, Henry, you know what, it's
Speaker 1: good to have a job to motivate you to become
Speaker 1: a comedian more and more, because you know, you you
Speaker 1: that's good that you've had a job, because there's nothing worse.
Speaker 1: And there's quite a few examples in the comedy industry
Speaker 1: of someone who goes straight into comedy and never worked
Speaker 1: in a ship job. And your job's not even ship.
Speaker 1: It's a profession engineering, but engineering is full on.
Speaker 4: Though yeah, it's too much. That takes a lot of
Speaker 4: responsibility responsibility. And the problem is when you do comedy
Speaker 4: as well, you do it poorly. You do engineering poorly
Speaker 4: because you just don't hang on.
Speaker 1: There's a building on a collapse because of.
Speaker 4: Your I'm a mechanical so this car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mechanical, mechanical.
Speaker 4: Did you have a job when you were Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: what did you do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this podcast is not about me.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I I studied to be a teacher, and then I
Speaker 1: worked for the Red Cross as a field Officely it
Speaker 1: was like public education job, you know, giving to And
Speaker 1: then I.
Speaker 3: Sold some hot dogs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a part time job in the hot
Speaker 1: dog shop. And then I I worked at a private
Speaker 1: PR company, but then I got sacked. And then when
Speaker 1: I started comedy, I always had like such as like
Speaker 1: warehousing jobs, and I worked at I worked at tape
Speaker 1: because my dad was a tape teacher. But Brad was
Speaker 1: a union organizer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was a union organized I also sold some
Speaker 5: hot dogs, so I've got I've got a bit.
Speaker 1: Of I never did a full on professional job while
Speaker 1: doing comedy. I got sacked from my professional job and
Speaker 1: then I started doing comedy, and so I always and
Speaker 1: I kept getting offered not a lot, but I kept
Speaker 1: getting offered, you know, full on pr jobs where you
Speaker 1: have to be there like, you know, nine to six
Speaker 1: every day. So he's kept saying.
Speaker 5: No, no, Henry. Do you know there's a guy, Max
Speaker 5: is Zadmik who I think. He's an automotive engineer as well,
Speaker 5: does a bit of comedy.
Speaker 4: Max, he's a lovely man.
Speaker 1: You talk about engineering with him?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no, we just talk comedy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I tell him you gotta stop doing those jokes.
Speaker 1: What a motive engineer and what some of do?
Speaker 4: You're working right now? Ringwood? But that's where I grew up.
Speaker 1: Man. You can go, yeah, go and see the statue
Speaker 1: of me. Yeah, I'm actually mitcham and so I was.
Speaker 1: Brad MIT's the next suburb to Ringwood.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The problem is I don't have enough money to attribute
Speaker 4: every day, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no. Do you get a train out?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Ringward's not too bad.
Speaker 4: But the question is when do you when.
Speaker 1: You stop working? When you're start doing enough money to live?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're like wealthy parents or na, I'm so poor.
Speaker 1: What did your dad do for a job?
Speaker 4: He's like a handyman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like an engine simple to my dad, who
Speaker 1: was a film trainer. Yeah, they could have been engineers,
Speaker 1: these guys, but they just didn't have those opportunities.
Speaker 4: I feel like, yeah, because they're probably more like they
Speaker 4: know more about engineering than of course.
Speaker 1: But what about your mom? Is she still working?
Speaker 4: She's like a housewife.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like my mom.
Speaker 4: But we're yeah, we're pretty poor.
Speaker 1: You're poor.
Speaker 4: I don't think we I could. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: You can't hit up them brothers or sisters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one older one, younger brother. Older brothers an engineer.
Speaker 4: My younger sister is also an engineer.
Speaker 3: Love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dad and Mom, we're so proud. Henry is a letdown.
Speaker 1: He's trying comedy dude. Man, Oh yeah it was crazy. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't have understood it.
Speaker 4: They did not. They didn't think toking could get you money.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. Well, you just gotta keep going. Didn't
Speaker 1: you win? Raw? Raw?
Speaker 5: That's pretty good. There's three of you as engineers, so
Speaker 5: you kind of like the Beg.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the band.
Speaker 1: They're a band in Australian English, band that had a
Speaker 1: lot of hits staying Alive. You are young, but the Bees,
Speaker 1: you know, they had high voices and they are three
Speaker 1: brothers who saying together.
Speaker 4: But question, is RAW even that prestigious? Yes, it is
Speaker 4: well to win it.
Speaker 1: It is as as I've always said, and someone said
Speaker 1: this to me, all competitions are ship until you win one,
Speaker 1: and then they're good. Well, you're gonna look at some
Speaker 1: of the people that want not everyone who wins RAW
Speaker 1: goes on the great things. But like Anna Gadsby one wrong,
Speaker 1: Josh Thomas did Josh Thomas? Did you win RAW? Or
Speaker 1: you come? A few famous people came second too, didn't they? Brad,
Speaker 1: like like Celia Pecola.
Speaker 4: Maybe? I mean it was cool, it's awesome. Yeah, who
Speaker 4: was in your year?
Speaker 3: Who did.
Speaker 4: Shout out to my boy?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know him?
Speaker 4: Okay, William Wang?
Speaker 1: Oh, I know William Wang Mega.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know her.
Speaker 1: She's funny. Well that's pretty good competition. No, I think
Speaker 1: winning role is a good thing. Absolutely. Did you go
Speaker 1: to Edinburgh?
Speaker 4: Then? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was that.
Speaker 4: Oh it was really interesting. I bombed, like really hard
Speaker 4: for the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: SA you bombed or bonded? Bombed?
Speaker 3: Bombed?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I was just like what I should laugh?
Speaker 4: That's fair. I love bombing. But I think I realized
Speaker 4: like they have never seen an Asian that speaks with like, yeah,
Speaker 4: the accents, so they just couldn't get past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like what's his name KOs talking about when
Speaker 1: he goes to America. I can't cope with his face
Speaker 1: and his accent together.
Speaker 4: And it's kind of annoying having to start a gig,
Speaker 4: like just waste some time talking about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a key accident and your key exit
Speaker 1: is not even that strong.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's not that strong. Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Would never I just thought you were astrayan what about you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and yeah, I mean yeah, that's the annoing thing.
Speaker 4: So you know, but yeah, because ideally you just want
Speaker 4: to talk about stuff you want to talk about, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, but sometimes yeah, if you're not a superstar
Speaker 4: international sensation like Davon Neil.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, right yeah right. Of course. Henry's famous
Speaker 1: for asking me how much money I earned and I
Speaker 1: told him I got to say that that was a
Speaker 1: very good year when you asked me, yeah it's been
Speaker 1: that good. You're not as good. But were you shocked
Speaker 1: when I told you? And I love your statement. You said,
Speaker 1: but I don't see you any gigs and said I
Speaker 1: don't do the gigs at your door. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: totally republic.
Speaker 4: You don't do it.
Speaker 3: You gotta do it.
Speaker 4: Why, I don't know, just to feel humiliation, I.
Speaker 1: Used Well, open mics weren't a thing when we started.
Speaker 1: We started our own, didn't we, Brad, Really when we
Speaker 1: started we started, I started like the s Mythtery anyway, whatever,
Speaker 1: comedy cabaret and we call them comedy nives, but now
Speaker 1: you think about it, their open mic nights.
Speaker 3: But they're open mind we called them tryout nights.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but we kind of assimilated into paid work, maybe
Speaker 5: a little bit quicker than people do these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we would go and do the Comedy Cafe
Speaker 1: would have an amateur night on Thursdays, The Joke had
Speaker 1: one on Tuesdays, and then you'd have to go and
Speaker 1: do like the Star and Guard. They'd have two amateurs on.
Speaker 1: Then you know, they'd be like pros headlining and MCing
Speaker 1: and stuff.
Speaker 3: But they were all. It was all mixed in with
Speaker 3: and the audiences.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good audiences, not not just other comedians audience,
Speaker 1: not only.
Speaker 5: You know, there's there's a lot more gigs these days, Henry,
Speaker 5: but a lot of them are only attended by you know,
Speaker 5: and people crazy laughs and die hard.
Speaker 1: And openly yeah yeah and open. I run a lot
Speaker 1: of gigs myself, so that's where I do mind new material.
Speaker 4: I don't have to that's so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have to go to whatever dirty secrets
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday or wherever you go.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well having open mics, do you do? I
Speaker 4: do a lot. I do pretty much most gigs in Melbourne.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I just tried to gig as much as
Speaker 4: I can, Like it's a good idea. I try to
Speaker 4: hit like on a on a slow week, maybe five.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's good. That's what you should be doing.
Speaker 4: On a good week, maybe seven, eight maybe.
Speaker 1: So you used to see Ulessia Carduccio. He used to
Speaker 1: do He's he was a king. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: king of billy Billy starles Billy's out there on the streets.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, actually doing gigs on the street. He would.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But do you get on it like the lounge and
Speaker 1: place like that.
Speaker 4: And I've been on lounge once, Okay, the basement, I
Speaker 4: get on basement.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was just on basement last weekend.
Speaker 1: So and.
Speaker 4: Republic yeah yeah, So I think like.
Speaker 1: These are all Melbourne rooms for anyone.
Speaker 4: Lounge not so much. It'd be nice to get on again.
Speaker 4: I don't know, like I don't know how to get
Speaker 4: on though, Like I'm not that good at networking.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's yeah, it's a skill.
Speaker 4: But network.
Speaker 1: Just turn up and go yeah, I know, Dave and
Speaker 1: I really like your shirt, And then they don't.
Speaker 4: Should I just case like you should probably?
Speaker 1: I just get what was you back for? Hey? What
Speaker 1: about the magpie?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They go, well, can I get you a drink? I
Speaker 1: was always pretty good at networking, but I don't do
Speaker 1: it much anymore.
Speaker 4: Because you don't need to.
Speaker 1: I don't know bread nereworking. That's Brad, Brad were you?
Speaker 1: Are you a networker?
Speaker 5: I'm not the best networking because never been the best
Speaker 5: kind of.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a true teller. Whereas I'm because
Speaker 1: I came from a public relations background. I'm good at lying,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, lying and bullshooting.
Speaker 5: I'm great at lying. I'm look at my routine, it's
Speaker 5: all live. But I'm just not good at suffering fools.
Speaker 1: Fools. My dad could talk to anyone, and I've inherited
Speaker 1: that that trait.
Speaker 3: Just talk to anyone, you do get along with everybody,
Speaker 3: and hey.
Speaker 1: Signed for ripping. You're on the right way, guys, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited.
Speaker 3: Yes, but yeah, it's networking.
Speaker 5: I think I think you are networking because everybody knows
Speaker 5: you in the in the open mic scene.
Speaker 1: And who me Henry people know Yeah, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you're not an asshole, so you'll be all right and
Speaker 1: it's funny. So I think you'll be all right in
Speaker 1: the long run.
Speaker 3: And you're not.
Speaker 4: You're not.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be one of those rude very important not
Speaker 1: to be rude to people, because you know, if you're
Speaker 1: rude to people, they'll remember it and then they won't
Speaker 1: you know, if they become someone, they won't give you
Speaker 1: a gig.
Speaker 4: But it's like, why would you. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 4: people are rude to people all the time. I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't see it, like, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just not good.
Speaker 1: No, Well, I'm sure your parents were polite and they
Speaker 1: taught you well. I mean, you know, if someone's mean
Speaker 1: to you, you can kick back, but yeah, or stupid
Speaker 1: or just being rude, like giving you a.
Speaker 4: Bad introduction for example, getting on, like when you get on.
Speaker 1: No, I know, you when they say on this next bloke,
Speaker 1: I this guy say, you know, we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of funny comedians and we've also got Dave and Neil tonight.
Speaker 1: You know that kind of thing. A dude, I had.
Speaker 1: It's great, go on.
Speaker 4: I had this one where the guy introduced his like
Speaker 4: this next guy, I've never seen him that. I can
Speaker 4: guarantee he's not going to be as funny as the
Speaker 4: guy you just saw.
Speaker 3: So money.
Speaker 4: I don't want to call him out, but I love
Speaker 4: the guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, to be fair, he's never seen men rude anyway.
Speaker 1: Were you shocked at the amount of money that comedians
Speaker 1: earned because I said to you when I told you
Speaker 1: and I said, why that's huge? Or kiddy Flanagan, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: man there the next level up.
Speaker 3: You should talk to me. So shocked?
Speaker 4: Actually hugely was just because I was on a gig.
Speaker 1: What do you mean millions of dollars? He always goes
Speaker 1: to me, I tell him, so much money? Did you earn?
Speaker 3: I say, he and the rest I know that's it. No,
Speaker 3: that's it, Husy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was complaining the other day about how his
Speaker 4: super is like three million dollars or something. Was going
Speaker 4: to get taxes on my super.
Speaker 1: Is three hundred grand. We had a great conversation in
Speaker 1: the radio Stuo once with Nathan Buckley. He was a
Speaker 1: former Collingwood captain and coach, right, and he said that
Speaker 1: Husy Gates, I reckon, are you earn more money than
Speaker 1: you Nathan? And Nathan goes a million dollars in sponsorship alone. Okay,
Speaker 1: you win more on anyway? Well, no, you can do
Speaker 1: good money in comedy.
Speaker 4: That would be the dream.
Speaker 1: You've got everything going for you.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, oh yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah you got And also you've got diversity. They love
Speaker 1: a bit of diversity. Now try being a fat white
Speaker 1: guy that me and Oaks. Yeah fine in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, your time is done.
Speaker 1: Henry, mate, we'll be we'll be supporting you. Give the
Speaker 1: next Aaron Chen and we'll be Can we drink? Henry
Speaker 1: will take the phone call Ronnie, Ronnie, we used to
Speaker 1: support us, you know, Ronnie Chang. Yeah, that's of course.
Speaker 4: How did they get so far?
Speaker 1: Well, Aaron and Ronni are both very funny for a start,
Speaker 1: they're both nice people, and right, I don't know about Amber.
Speaker 1: Ronnie is very good at business. I gotta say, oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he a business sense, networking all yeah.
Speaker 1: And he was. It was just a combination of not
Speaker 1: lack but timing. I reckon with Ronnie, don't you reckon
Speaker 1: Brad Ronnie.
Speaker 5: I don't know about Aaron. I don't know Aaron very well,
Speaker 5: but I know Ronnie always had a plan as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a lawyer, so he's not stupid. Timing in
Speaker 1: terms of when he turned up so not the timing
Speaker 1: of his jokes. It's like the timing of when he
Speaker 1: turned up on the scene in the world, because we
Speaker 1: Australia had never really had an angry Asian comic like he.
Speaker 1: You know, we had Asian comics like Arndau Asian Australians,
Speaker 1: but they were kind of friendly and happy. You know,
Speaker 1: where's Ronnie's like? You know, he used to say, what
Speaker 1: is it with your white people? I'm gonna do his
Speaker 1: voice with your shoes in the house and your potatoes.
Speaker 1: You disgusted me. So once once he started talking like
Speaker 1: that and people got onto that and people like other
Speaker 1: Asian people. Sorry, I went, oh, this guy is saying
Speaker 1: exactly what I think. Yeah, he just and he just
Speaker 1: he did the Comedy Festival. It's not similar to Hugheye,
Speaker 1: what happened with him? He did like the gala, He
Speaker 1: did a spot that took off. It just got word
Speaker 1: of mouth and he moved eventually did the big Room
Speaker 1: in the town Hall and then he got famous via
Speaker 1: that and then I didn't ever know. I seen him
Speaker 1: on a plane, just on a video. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: just said did a gig with him and he said,
Speaker 1: I love this guy. And that's what happened.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: The gala is like so cool, a like have you
Speaker 4: done the Girl? I was able to do the New
Speaker 4: Zealand one this year, but haven't done the Melbourne one.
Speaker 4: But it really helps shift tickets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not it used to be massive, but not
Speaker 1: so much anymore, I think. But if you get your
Speaker 1: clip online, there's always someone that takes off. I reckon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every year happened happened to Tommy Little too? Actually, oh
Speaker 1: he took off from the gala. Yeah, it's just like
Speaker 1: six times and never took off at least I did it.
Speaker 4: You'll be right, I reckon, Yeah, Yeah, I'm just trying
Speaker 4: to be funny, like I think, just.
Speaker 3: Keep doing gigs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know how people like like they like
Speaker 4: focus on, like, so what.
Speaker 1: Are we going to Sydney. The fuck go on?
Speaker 4: Like people focus on socials and all the other stuff,
Speaker 4: But I feel like being funny is going to give
Speaker 4: you everything you need for everything that you deserve.
Speaker 1: Me that said, you should put clips online? Do you
Speaker 1: do that all? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sometimes I need to do it more.
Speaker 1: Everyone needs to do it more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I try to. But yeah, growing socials is
Speaker 4: really hard. I respect people who can do.
Speaker 1: It, so do I.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: We all do, don't we brain? We all want to
Speaker 1: do it, but we're not. Again, that's luck and persistence.
Speaker 1: I reckon. You just got to keep doing it.
Speaker 4: Can I ask? When did you peak?
Speaker 1: When did I peak?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Next week? When did I peak? I never really peaked,
Speaker 1: did I brain? Did I? Oh? Two thousand's?
Speaker 4: Two thousands?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I don't know. I don't tell you that.
Speaker 1: You're a lot in the When was that years ago?
Speaker 1: Did pick some specs a lot? And then agony articles
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff? I was on the radio? Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe ten years ago?
Speaker 4: And how long does a comedian peak for? On the
Speaker 4: look it?
Speaker 1: The thing is to try and maintain some kind of profile. Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't a brad you just got a it's a you
Speaker 1: know what, it's like a black guard that no one
Speaker 1: talks about. Yeah, but like look at Hughesy. So he
Speaker 1: you know, he's been back on TV and now he's
Speaker 1: drawing big crowds again. But he dropped off for a
Speaker 1: little bit probably, you know.
Speaker 5: What I mean, Yeah, because he was concentrating on radio
Speaker 5: or whatever. But he's going to back to what he
Speaker 5: really likes. But he's kind of stayed up there. And
Speaker 5: you know, a lot lots Mooney, Kenny Flanagan, you know,
Speaker 5: Kyle Baron's only just got to like, you know, fart
Speaker 5: and people selling million digts.
Speaker 1: Well, in a way, I started got a profile when
Speaker 1: it was there were more TV shows and there was
Speaker 1: only TV. There was no Internet. So when I was
Speaker 1: doing Fix and Specs and you know I went on
Speaker 1: a sixty nine times, that's a lot, and that there
Speaker 1: was no internet, there were no other distractions. Now, you
Speaker 1: know there's guys like Luke Kidgel and those guys that
Speaker 1: just do TikTok and Insta whatever clips and they're much
Speaker 1: bigger than any of us.
Speaker 4: They to theaters, but you kind of see like the
Speaker 4: like where you should put your time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's it, But you're right, you should just
Speaker 1: put it into stand up, but you should also try
Speaker 1: and get it. I mean, it's no point being the
Speaker 1: best comic but no one knows about it. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you've got to let people know that you're funny, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's that's all social media now unfortunately.
Speaker 4: But also, like you know, when you watch social media,
Speaker 4: you don't have to be that funny.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, like yeah, but you know what happens
Speaker 1: there is that they'll get an audience and people will
Speaker 1: come the first year, but they won't come back the
Speaker 1: second year. I reckon, because if you're not funny when
Speaker 1: they turn up, then then they're not going to come back.
Speaker 1: They'll move on to someone else because there's always someone
Speaker 1: new on the internet.
Speaker 4: Also, how hard is it to retine audience year to year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a very good question. It just goes up
Speaker 1: and down. I reckon, because I reckon when people are
Speaker 1: so famous, they just get people coming along just because
Speaker 1: they're out of curiosity. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So I think part of it too is that if
Speaker 5: you want to stay up there, it's people convincing other
Speaker 5: people to come and see because you're going to have
Speaker 5: be rustled on die hard fans, but you know they're
Speaker 5: only going to fill one seat. So if you've got
Speaker 5: like a table of four, you know, four people are
Speaker 5: sitting in you know, fit of seats watching you. Somebody
Speaker 5: has said to three people, hey, whishuld go and see
Speaker 5: Dave O'Neill. Yeah, so you've got to stay relevant.
Speaker 1: You've got it. Yeah, it's important for someone like me
Speaker 1: doing podcasts but also doing radio you know, on the
Speaker 1: ABC and stuff, occasional TV appearances. That's what keeps me relevant.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Because I remember saying to
Speaker 1: a guy in Geelong, well, why why do you reckon?
Speaker 1: I draw a crowd, you know in Geelong and as
Speaker 1: opposed to someone else who's you know, has been around
Speaker 1: as long as me. He goes, well, you're still on
Speaker 1: things and stuff, That's what he said. You're still on
Speaker 1: things and stuff. You know anyone knows because everyone can
Speaker 1: know you, but still not come to your gigs too.
Speaker 1: That's the factor I reckon. I know that guy. But
Speaker 1: and then there's people that are hot, you know, like
Speaker 1: say your mate Going Montgomery, he's hot at the moment,
Speaker 1: you know is hot, and you know you know mal
Speaker 1: In fact, all the Kiwi's.
Speaker 3: We're back to the key.
Speaker 4: That's actually true. Way a lot of the quis are like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all hot at the moment anyway, can't wait
Speaker 1: for the simments to turn up and fuck.
Speaker 4: You got yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's so good. The Papa guineons. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're traveling the epping And have you done an RSL before?
Speaker 4: You have done one?
Speaker 1: What way was that?
Speaker 4: I forgot? But yeah it's I did one of these
Speaker 4: laugh check ones before as well. It's always interesting because
Speaker 4: I feel like my style is not conventional.
Speaker 1: So are you that conventional? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say so, but it's also not normal.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, I'll be watching carefully.
Speaker 4: Oh man, my idol?
Speaker 1: Who is your idol in comedy?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 1: Who did you look up?
Speaker 4: Will we say, like, yeah, probably the guys you mentioned,
Speaker 4: like god Ray and they're all like the goats in
Speaker 4: my opinion of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Brad, have you done RSL before?
Speaker 5: I did an rsl' an American comedian and he looked
Speaker 5: at all the the the the weapons outside, you know,
Speaker 5: the cannons and stuff, and I said to him, yeah,
Speaker 5: we take out beer pretty seriously.
Speaker 1: Don't try and get it because yeah, you know, what
Speaker 1: they are though, they Returned Service Club, but I mean
Speaker 1: there's not many diggers left to go to the rs L.
Speaker 3: And then I went in there and told to take
Speaker 3: my hat off.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that's annoying. They do that. They respected diggers.
Speaker 5: It's part of my it's part of my well yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: ourselves good.
Speaker 1: They're generally pretty good.
Speaker 4: Now it's just rugby or is this no.
Speaker 1: No, no, IT'SN stands for Return Service Leagues. So they
Speaker 1: were set up for soldiers that came back from the
Speaker 1: war and then but now they're just like a club,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like a sportsman pokey kind
Speaker 1: of place.
Speaker 4: But melbourn people don't play rugby do that?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, no they were There is rugby in Melbourne,
Speaker 1: but it's a fl here. Don't be mentioned in rugby. Mind,
Speaker 1: don't worry when you go to Queens and look, don't
Speaker 1: mention that bloody should you play down there? Might rugby?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Whatever they mention the war, well it's gonna be great
Speaker 1: and you can't wait to see you and we'll come
Speaker 1: back afterwards. Everyone stay tuned to see how Henry goes
Speaker 1: any second ever RSL and Brad's probably one thousandth RL.
Speaker 4: Oh man, can't wait to bomb?
Speaker 1: No, I tell you're not gonna bomb. Talk. Don't talk
Speaker 1: yourself down like it. Don't mention the war.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, you know that's true. But you know,
Speaker 4: like I had this ru are.
Speaker 1: You Chinese just Chinese your parents from the mainland or yeah?
Speaker 4: I like how when you said that, I fell a
Speaker 4: hint of like racism. No, no, just a bit of
Speaker 4: like weary because you're like.
Speaker 1: No, I thought you were Chinese, but you got Australia
Speaker 1: has never been at war for the Chinese as opposed
Speaker 1: to japanel.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, but I think, well, you know from
Speaker 4: you know, I don't really know much about it, so
Speaker 4: you know, but I know older generations they are Yeah.
Speaker 1: Racist, I wouldn't they AUSI I think of my parents,
Speaker 1: my dad. Anyway, we're gonna, well see if the races here,
Speaker 1: we'll go, here we go.
Speaker 4: Oh man, Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Say bye, Brad, bye bye.
Speaker 3: I'll see it. I'll speak to you soon.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back on the debris. We've done the
Speaker 1: epping rs L and boy, what a triumph, Henry, you
Speaker 1: were great.
Speaker 4: I just saw my idol Dave O'Neill yes.
Speaker 6: Brad is yeah, these guys there are you know, it
Speaker 6: was a master class for you.
Speaker 1: You stood back. You watch Brad, you watch me, you go,
Speaker 1: Now I know what to do? This is this is well.
Speaker 4: It's more of like I've learned what not to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: Once you know all the stuff not to do, then you.
Speaker 1: Yes, well that's actually a good point too. I remember
Speaker 1: Rod Quantocks saying to me, don't just watch good communions, watch.
Speaker 4: Bad exactly you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And we're trying to teach Henry about networking.
Speaker 4: Like I was watching these the network.
Speaker 1: Network with a barber get free drinks.
Speaker 4: Yep, he networked with money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's just mention. I got free drink because
Speaker 1: the barber is like, what movie were you in again?
Speaker 1: I said the Nugget. Oh that's my favorite movie. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about these drinks. And then I said, can I
Speaker 1: get a meal? Or then some manager stepped in and said,
Speaker 1: I said, well, what about a stuff discount? So I
Speaker 1: bought two meals for you guys. Basically, man, thank you
Speaker 1: for the meal. It was how was the food looked good?
Speaker 1: That was food brand food was great? See Henry. They
Speaker 1: bought two meals one meal for me. That's networking.
Speaker 4: Networking, that's networking.
Speaker 1: But see, if you're trying to suck up to me
Speaker 1: and bro, you should have bought the meals me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should have brought the meals. But like I thought,
Speaker 1: I was getting for free, let's be honest. And then
Speaker 1: she bought it that tap and go. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm paying cash it up with my wife to see
Speaker 1: that on the credit card statement. Why are you spending
Speaker 1: fifty dollars in the ipping rs L Well, I bought
Speaker 1: Brad and Henry a.
Speaker 3: Meal after I drove them there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, drove it, paid for their food.
Speaker 4: If your wife ever asks me, I'm going to donate it.
Speaker 1: Just now.
Speaker 4: You did it for something else.
Speaker 1: I've enjoying your fish and chips. But the meal the
Speaker 1: mill looked good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. It was very young. It was good meal,
Speaker 4: and then good watching two masters at work?
Speaker 1: And how did how would you describe the crowd, Henry?
Speaker 1: Probably it was your crowd? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: crowd was. We nearly crashed. I only killed both of you.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, keep going, we didn't we fine?
Speaker 4: Fine, well, if these are our last words, then yeah,
Speaker 4: I would love that.
Speaker 1: It's the black Box Recording.
Speaker 4: I feel like the crowd was nice and I are older,
Speaker 4: but yeah they were older. So yeah, well yeah, certain
Speaker 4: material they liked and then you know, certain ones they don't. No,
Speaker 4: But sometimes I wonder like it's probably a skill issue.
Speaker 1: So you know what it is. It's having a lot
Speaker 1: of material to call on and then looking at them going,
Speaker 1: I reckon, I like this, and then and when you
Speaker 1: do a little bit of that, you do more of that.
Speaker 4: But here's the question. Isn't art supposed to be You're
Speaker 4: showing them what.
Speaker 1: You want to show. Yeah, but that's okay when you're
Speaker 1: doing your own show, But when you're doing the R
Speaker 1: SLL and epping, you've you've got to pan it to
Speaker 1: them a little bit that right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and to an extent, like you can do
Speaker 5: art and you just go, I'm just gonna paint everything
Speaker 5: black and nobody's going to look at it because it
Speaker 5: won't translate to people. Art still has to be translatable
Speaker 5: to people. They have to be able to get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you understand that, you're you're intelligent, you're an engineer,
Speaker 1: You're not stupid. I know you mean, but see, if
Speaker 1: you're doing your own show, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Did you do the Comedy Festival this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you do.
Speaker 4: Chinese Museum? Actually? Really is that?
Speaker 1: Because you're from New Zealand? Are you the only Chinese
Speaker 1: person in the Chinese Museum?
Speaker 4: I think I was one of two.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's it like as a room? I've heard people
Speaker 1: talk about it.
Speaker 4: It's not it's okay, it's okay, be diplomatic, all right,
Speaker 4: it's nice if you have fans, okay, because you're not
Speaker 4: going to get many walkings.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, no one gets walkings anymore.
Speaker 4: Town Hall gets a lot of walkings, Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 4: Like talking to a few of my friends who did
Speaker 4: town Hall and they're just like, oh man, a lot
Speaker 4: of them were just walkings.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was like, oh wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Weren't coming down to be the likes where I was
Speaker 1: doing Square walk Out? Oh mate?
Speaker 3: Well yeah, but it was.
Speaker 4: It was really fun and I guess doing it it's
Speaker 4: crazy because that was my first solo show in Melbourne,
Speaker 4: and then it's just crazy to have a lot of
Speaker 4: I guess have fans, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how big was the room?
Speaker 4: About forty? I think these four I wish I would
Speaker 4: have felt that easy.
Speaker 1: Now, that's good number for if you're the first time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's crazy to just know that, you know,
Speaker 4: you have people that want to see you. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's good. Yeah, what's good?
Speaker 3: That was your.
Speaker 1: Room forty five or whatever, one hundred and twenty. I
Speaker 1: didn't fill it every not only two weeks. I didn't
Speaker 1: feel it every night. Like I think the comedy Festival,
Speaker 1: I think it's getting a bit harder.
Speaker 4: I don't know, you reckon, is it like too much
Speaker 4: competition or yeah?
Speaker 1: When we started, Brad, how many shows, Brad? How mean
Speaker 1: it was it about fifty fifty or sixty? Maybe?
Speaker 3: Yeah, not even that many.
Speaker 5: In fact, I remember the first Comedy Festival guide I
Speaker 5: saw it was four pages.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of competition now but anyway, that's
Speaker 1: just life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy, you know, and everybody was supportive
Speaker 3: of each other.
Speaker 1: Uh back then it was different. Anyway.
Speaker 4: I just want to take Dave's customers, Yeah, just.
Speaker 1: Take them, have all the debris fans a lot of amount,
Speaker 1: a lot now fan based increasing to anyway, here we
Speaker 1: are exciting times.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know what do you.
Speaker 1: Want to do in comedy though? What's what sort of
Speaker 1: what do you want to actually do? Some people get
Speaker 1: into it for you seem to be do you want
Speaker 1: to just be a stand up.
Speaker 4: Or ideally just stand up? But I've learned that you
Speaker 4: can't really build a big fan base just by doing
Speaker 4: stand up. I feel like a lot of your fans
Speaker 4: come from things that aren't stand up.
Speaker 1: Clips and off podcast like this one, like the Debrief
Speaker 1: the next you will be hundreds of people and it's
Speaker 1: a debrief effect.
Speaker 4: Oh man, of course on my poster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, debrief, debrief.
Speaker 4: Yes, but yeah, I think the dream would be just
Speaker 4: to do stand up, but obviously yeah, I think you
Speaker 4: need to do other stuff.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, plenty of people just
Speaker 1: survive just on stand up. But you got diversified sometimes
Speaker 1: yeah yeah right.
Speaker 4: But yeah expert. Yeah, I don't know a lot of
Speaker 4: the field that did come to my shows were just
Speaker 4: people who saw me do live comedy. So do spots
Speaker 4: yeah yeah, yeah that people will see me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But diversifying means sell hot dogs.
Speaker 1: Sell hot dogs, mane anything anything, dude, what do your
Speaker 1: parents think now about your career?
Speaker 4: Sign after you know, after various achievements.
Speaker 1: We did the Gallery New Zealand.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and they saw that and then does that
Speaker 4: go well, oh yeah, so I sold quite like a
Speaker 4: lot of ticket.
Speaker 1: No, I'm winning raw too because I was on TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah. So they kind of believe in me now, so,
Speaker 4: which is that's nice? Yeah, but you know, I feel
Speaker 4: like that belief was faltering. Ah man, it's faltering now.
Speaker 1: But engineering career like your brother and sister. Yeer, do
Speaker 1: you believe.
Speaker 4: In your kids?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure not really no, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 4: Like one of them said, I want to do stand
Speaker 4: up comedy. Well I know.
Speaker 1: My wife like, oh, why would you want to get
Speaker 1: into comedy? Like, we're live in a big house. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with comedy?
Speaker 4: Lives in the mansion, doesn't I mentioned what was wrong
Speaker 4: with comedy.
Speaker 1: Comedy is a good career. It's fun, you know, like
Speaker 1: I worked in an office, I did teaching. It's they're hard.
Speaker 1: That's hard.
Speaker 4: It's hard. That's hard. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: So I would encourage them, but and my wife like, well,
Speaker 1: if they want to get a showcase, you can't help
Speaker 1: the fuck that. I'm gonna help them. Which someone help me?
Speaker 1: You always said. I never became a fitter in Turner
Speaker 1: because I want babies. I want my son. Barney's got
Speaker 1: a good name for it, Barney O'Neill. That's a good
Speaker 1: name for a comedian, So it was kiddie O'Neill. Actually,
Speaker 1: do any name?
Speaker 4: Who do you reckon? Talent? Wise has the most comedic talent?
Speaker 1: We say, look, they're all pretty funny.
Speaker 4: It's a standard diplomatically, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: We say Barney's quite funny. The youngest one, but he's young.
Speaker 1: Ones are often are you the youngest or what are
Speaker 1: you in the middle? Middle? Yet youngest are off in
Speaker 1: the comedians because they've got an audience, you know. But
Speaker 1: he seems to crack a few gags. That's good, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if they will. My daughter's funny too,
Speaker 1: but she said she's more interested in writing kind of
Speaker 1: you know writing, I know TV shows. Okay, she'd be
Speaker 1: a good rider, I reckon like, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: get into it anyway. I'd encourage them because, you know,
Speaker 1: as always said, I didn't. I didn't want to be
Speaker 1: a fitter Turner because I didn't want to turn up
Speaker 1: to the lathe and have people go, well, he's good,
Speaker 1: but he's not as good as his father.
Speaker 4: Kevin question for you then, so if you're if you're
Speaker 4: a saved Barnie, you know what what would be? What
Speaker 4: would you give him the roadmap to becoming.
Speaker 1: A comic dev At first, I get instantly jealous and
Speaker 1: try and sabotage his career, get him under debrief. You're
Speaker 1: going to do a gig with Henry tonight and all right,
Speaker 1: you've got a fill in for me at rs L.
Speaker 1: Barnie say Dad sick, but I'm gonna have a crack. No,
Speaker 1: you know what it's You know what it's all about.
Speaker 1: It's all that time on stage. That's the only way
Speaker 1: to learn how to do stand up, apart from doing
Speaker 1: a course with Brad Oaks School of Hard Knock Knocks.
Speaker 1: Look it up if you're thinking about it. But of
Speaker 1: course it's good to get your started. But there's nothing
Speaker 1: beats time on stage. Say that Brad runs.
Speaker 3: Hang on, So why why do you hate them?
Speaker 4: I think they tend to make you not unique?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but it's only for three or four days.
Speaker 1: It will soon run off.
Speaker 4: If you're funny, you already know how to be funny.
Speaker 1: Not always. But also the course that Brad runs you
Speaker 1: get to do a gig at the end of it,
Speaker 1: in a supportive environment. I reckon, that's important.
Speaker 3: And I see, I don't teach people to be funny.
Speaker 3: I teach people.
Speaker 5: I coach people in how to do stand up comedy
Speaker 5: because you don't know, and you still don't know, even
Speaker 5: though you've won raw because of the conversation we had before,
Speaker 5: you still don't know that you have to talk to
Speaker 5: people in order to get your comedy across. And there's
Speaker 5: so many things you could learn if people could just
Speaker 5: tell you rather than have to learn them yourself. But
Speaker 5: as Dave said, the funny bit you have to learn
Speaker 5: on stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do a real lot of it.
Speaker 1: Nothing beats stage. It's not the ten thousand hour theory.
Speaker 1: Nothing beats that. I reckon, And just get up and
Speaker 1: do a gig anyway you can, whether it's at a
Speaker 1: twenty first or at a party between bands, whatever, no
Speaker 1: matter how shit it is, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's my advice the young people out there, all the
Speaker 1: old people thinking a crackt stand up. Of course, I
Speaker 1: don't have to do those gigs anymore, thank fuck. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you guys the questions I asked every
Speaker 1: one of these questions, Henry, I called your Harry, then
Speaker 1: call me Bunny Barnie. Henry Barney, what what went well tonight?
Speaker 1: And why you reckon? What went well? And said like, yeah, yeah, Brad,
Speaker 1: give them Mike to Brad, he'll answer it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: I think Greig's very well organized laugh track comedy, Yes,
Speaker 5: very well organized.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all started on time. I liked his little down
Speaker 3: clock there, you.
Speaker 1: Know, well for people in a countdown clock, which is great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which is usually it's great, you know, because you
Speaker 5: can just see your time and everything. It's only bad
Speaker 5: when you're having a ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when Henry stands in front of it. Right, Okay, Henry,
Speaker 1: have you had to think about it? Henry, what went well?
Speaker 3: And you said, and my sick They.
Speaker 1: Want to you. They really liked you straight away.
Speaker 4: Yes, but I think like the stuff that it went like,
Speaker 4: it was going really well the start, and then I
Speaker 4: was like, oh man, I want to do stuff I
Speaker 4: really want to talk about, and then.
Speaker 7: It dropped off and then I was just trying to
Speaker 7: figure out, like what they want why because in some
Speaker 7: like I find like in some rooms like I do
Speaker 7: basement or whatever, and it's like when they like me
Speaker 7: I can just say whatever and everything's funny.
Speaker 4: And then I was just wondering, like that's the next question.
Speaker 1: What didn't go well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was just like that portion in the middle,
Speaker 4: and I was just trying to figure out, like why, Well, if.
Speaker 1: The concepts are maybe too intellectual, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: they may not get onto that. Sometimes I reckon any
Speaker 1: organization has anything wrong with the room. I'm going to
Speaker 1: answer that I had to pay for the meals, all right,
Speaker 1: Greek should organize three meals all, you know, and free
Speaker 1: and free drinks. I said to Greg, are they can
Speaker 1: I get a free drink?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: What did he say?
Speaker 3: He said, we don't have any drinks. Dat privileges privileges.
Speaker 1: But thank god the barman was a fan of the
Speaker 1: movie The Nugget I was in twenty years ago. He
Speaker 1: gave us free drinks.
Speaker 3: Drink privileges. Sounds like something in prison, doesn't it.
Speaker 5: I think organizational wise, I don't think if you have
Speaker 5: a really good line of sight to the countdown clock
Speaker 5: that any comedian should stand in front of it, so
Speaker 5: dust ruining your line of sight to it.
Speaker 1: I love that clock. How can we do better next time,
Speaker 1: guys and give a free meal. Let me not pay
Speaker 1: for the meals. Yeah, well, well me pay for a
Speaker 1: meal and eat it. I'm trying to lose weight, though,
Speaker 1: I don't want to eat it at night, late at night.
Speaker 3: I'll leave some money down the back of.
Speaker 1: The yea, yeah, leave you some money on the dash
Speaker 1: give anyway, Brad. Thanks coming the popcast again. If you're
Speaker 1: thinking of getting the comedy go look at school the
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks some very good going up schools.
Speaker 4: I just sound like it is.
Speaker 1: Or just bring Henry up and he'll teach you one
Speaker 1: on one. But also not just comedy engineering, everything covered, mate.
Speaker 4: It's all about intuition and how.
Speaker 1: Can people find you? They may have listened to all
Speaker 1: these thousands of people listening. I want to see a
Speaker 1: bit of Henry. Actually, where can I see you?
Speaker 4: I would love two more followers on my Instagram.
Speaker 1: What's your handle?
Speaker 4: Underscore? Henry underscore yen yep, okay, I'll be I'll be
Speaker 4: waiting for the two more followers.
Speaker 1: You'll get a few, hopefully. Thanks for coming on, Henry.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much for having me my idol problem. Yeah
Speaker 4: a problem to be like Bunny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: Thank you And it's on broducts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and no worries buying your meals and a problem at.
Speaker 4: All, mate, I can't wait to get another three minutes.
Speaker 1: I'll probably get a demand it.
Speaker 4: Well, next time i'll check them in you, I'll see
Speaker 4: what's lobster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take two of them, take one home, go
Speaker 1: on you guys, Thank you. It's been the de Brave. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what I'm speaking on
Speaker 1: this debrief. Let's have that by.
Speaker 2: Going for a drive to a little game, then drive back.
Speaker 2: The jet's golden de breed. It's Golden de Breath.
Speaker 3: It's gold and.
Speaker 1: It's Carlton D. Tree. It's Calton Breath.