1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Pete Helly is in town for the Fringe Festival in 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: an International Kerfuffle, which is at Studio Underground at the 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: State Theater Center of Wa until this Sunday. Tickets are 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: available through fringeworld dot com dot are you good morning, Petellia. 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Ruffle. 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: First of all, kerfuffle one of my favorite words. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 2: So many people have commented on the work. 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: Such a great words. It describes what happens in here. 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: Often it brings. 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: Me joy, I mean ironically, but your show is about 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: a hilarious true story about you causing a full blown 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: international incident involving isis I mean, just to get any 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: more full of comedy than isis? Can you elaborate a 14 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: bit talk about a fringe? 15 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: I do feel we need some context around that, Yes 16 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 2: we do, we do. So it was it was a 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 2: joke I made when Tim Kay or agendary soccer who 18 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: came on ahead of the soccer us Do or Die, 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 2: you know, qualify against Honduras, and I, I, to be honest, 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: hadn't really heard much about Honduras. And we did some 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: research as we do and as a comedian, and as 22 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: I mentioned in the show that I'm not I'm not 23 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: deep diving into stories. I'm not I'm not going by 24 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: the way a season journalist with the you know, research 25 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: a story. It's not the way comedians story. I just 26 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 2: kind of look around the edges for funny words and 27 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 2: details really, and the detail that pops up is that 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 2: Honduras is a murder capital of the world. So it's 29 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: something I can play with. And so I'm and I'm 30 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 2: always so fascinated that footballers will go to places in 31 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 2: that campaign, the soccer who had already been to Iraq 32 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: and they've played that's fascinating to me. I'm a calling 33 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: with spatter. I don't like it when we leave Melbourne. 34 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: You know you guys are you guys are well aware 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: of that. So that's marinating in my in my brain, 36 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: and it comes up with the idea that you know 37 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: on the show live on air, that they're going to 38 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 2: the murder capital of the world. And then I say 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 2: to Tim Kale, well, you've played Iraq, you played Syria, 40 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 2: and now you're going to the murder cap of the world, Honduras, 41 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:20,559 Speaker 2: and if you beat them, you play Isis. And and 42 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 2: to be honest, absolutely honest, everyone laughed, and nothing really happened, 43 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 2: but when I woke up in the morning, there were 44 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 2: about twelve emotional messages from Honduras on my Facebook page, which, 45 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 2: believe it or not, had never happened before, and one 46 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: of them was a death threat. And then and then 47 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 2: it kind of it kind of escalates from there. So 48 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: the show kind of looks at that, and it's really 49 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 2: a look at comedy. It's it's a it's a kind 50 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 2: of a peek behind the curtain of you know, you 51 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 2: often hear about the controversies in comedy and you get 52 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: you know that people trying to cancel people and all that. 53 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 2: This is kind of like a look behind the choices 54 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 2: that we make as comedians, the things that we weigh 55 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: up as mediums. We stand by your joke, do we 56 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 2: go Okay, I've got that wrong? And there are so 57 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 2: I share not just that story, but some other stories 58 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 2: about me potentially getting it wrong and causing some kafuffles. 59 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 2: You know, it is my thirtieth year of doing comedy, 60 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 2: so there's been you know, I can't say every joke 61 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 2: is landed. 62 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: Well, you know, we're just going to get a death 63 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: threat here there. And your line of work, I mean, 64 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: you make you make a slip up, and you know, 65 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: sometimes it's just a slip up, wrong choice of words. Whatever. 66 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: It's public, it didn't happen in private, and the ramifications 67 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: are magnified. 68 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 2: I do mention in the show that we all have 69 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 2: this filter. We have two filters, you know, one one 70 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: that fields the information coming in and then the information 71 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: how we deliver it coming out. And everyone has that filter. 72 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 2: But when you're working on live TV, it's really important 73 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: as a comedian that those filters are both working because 74 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: our brains are always pitching jokes no matter the story. 75 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 2: And that's the uncomfortable truth about commed Our brains are 76 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 2: always pitching us jokes in dark moments in you're on 77 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 2: stage and off stage. I mean, people go to my wife. 78 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: I mustually fun be merrit Field comedian. Not really. 79 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: Now the rule is no drinking before the show or 80 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: before you go out for a round of golf. As 81 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: I've discovered on Sunday, Pete, I've taken up golf at 82 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: the end of last year. You have a podcast. Yeah, 83 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: I know, I haven't even had a par yet. You 84 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: have a podcast called make Me Good at Golf, which 85 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: is produced by pers back Chat Studios and I believe 86 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: you've played a few rounds at Lake Carron Up. 87 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 2: Yes, I one of my handicap rounds. Because your handicap, 88 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: you're handing your three cards. 89 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: Yes. 90 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: And my second my second round was at the beautiful 91 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 2: Late Carrying Out. 92 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: Isn't it gorgeous? 93 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 2: Yes, it is absolutely gorgeous. I played with Scottie Cummings 94 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 2: and DJ Carlas and we're going golf here out here, 95 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 2: and they gave me a great day and I scored 96 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 2: like the highest score of one hundred and fourteen. I 97 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 2: had Eiland Shaker. But it was but a bad day 98 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 2: of golf, as they say, still be you know, a 99 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 2: good day in the office. 100 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, I think they say it ruins a good walk, don't. 101 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: That's what that was, the saying I always do well. 102 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: I got my first card the other day. Like I said, 103 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have gone for lunch first. But anyway, so 104 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: I'm I'm on my way to my handicap. I am 105 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: the handicap at the moment, but you can end up 106 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: with Okay, we'll have a game. Catch Pete Hellier in 107 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: an International Kafuffle at Studio Underground at the State Theater 108 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: until this Sunday, Tickets are available through fringe world, dot 109 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: com dot au. Thanks Pete.