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Speaker 1: Ed Burd showed Tragedy plus Time is on at the

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Speaker 1: Asta Theatre May three as part of the Comedy Festival.

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Speaker 1: Tickets through Perthcomedy Festival dot com Ed Burn that was

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 2: That was very nice of you. I got to say

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Speaker 2: you're doing your research. You know that I'm a Princes side.

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Speaker 3: In fact, tell us about the guitar you have, Yeah, a.

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Speaker 2: Pot of guitar and an auction that used to belong

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Speaker 2: to Sheila that Princes played on the on the prop

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Speaker 2: Grane tour. Yeah, it's a it's a copy of a Honer.

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Speaker 2: Mad Cat apparently had a copy made because he didn't

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Speaker 2: like the way the pickups in a regular Honer. Mad

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Speaker 2: Cat worked with the pedals he was using, so he

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Speaker 2: had a custom made by in New York.

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Speaker 3: He always wanted to be fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Now I'll do a twenty minute version of Controversy the

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Speaker 2: after show part in the two Wow.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome. Now about you, Tragedy plus Time. It's

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Speaker 1: the title of the show. It's a bit of a

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Speaker 1: nod to a Mark Twine quote. Please explain for the

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Speaker 1: the unknowing.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know what Mark Twain. I think he's

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Speaker 2: one of those people that people just give him credit,

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Speaker 2: particularly you just go crediting.

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Speaker 3: Plus this week already.

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Speaker 2: God, yeah it was I think it was actually a

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Speaker 2: guy called Steve Allen. They came up with the idea, really,

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Speaker 2: humor could be defined as tragedy plus time. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: idea that's something that's not funny at the time, we'll

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Speaker 2: become funny later. And so it's kind of a look

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Speaker 2: at that through the focus of a very minor tragedy

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Speaker 2: that took place in my life, which was getting my

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Speaker 2: car broken into, and then a more major tragedy, which

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Speaker 2: was the death of a family member. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I know it sounds quite serious, and there's there's some

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Speaker 2: sad moments in the show. Of course it is overall, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a funny shows ridiculously right, I one.

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Speaker 1: Hundred humorous tragedy plus time because no one cares about

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Speaker 1: news for somebody, if it's a question of the amount

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Speaker 1: of time, of course, absolutely. When did you realize what

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Speaker 1: timing is everything? Maybe Mark twice inside timing is everything?

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Speaker 1: Where did you realize it that you had a knack

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Speaker 1: for finding now this is the other thing for finding

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Speaker 1: the humor tragic events Not everyone can do it, But

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Speaker 1: do you want to.

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Speaker 2: Look for it? It is an art, yeah, I think.

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Speaker 2: I mean I kind of got a field for comedy.

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Speaker 2: I used to work in the student union, which I

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Speaker 2: know put people off me, but you know, I was

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Speaker 2: I was a student, so I was like, but I've

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Speaker 2: got involved like a student you know, union activity. So

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Speaker 2: I was like a tool amongst tools. Yeah, but I

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Speaker 2: used to. I would host pub quizes and karaokees and

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Speaker 2: things like that, and I kind of get a field

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Speaker 2: for you for just getting in front of the crowd.

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Speaker 2: And then I started after I dropped out of college,

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Speaker 2: I started them seeing a comedy club in Glasgow where

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Speaker 2: I lived, and you know, just that was it. Then

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Speaker 2: I did that for a few months, then moved to

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Speaker 2: London where the streets are paved with comedy clubs.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And there's a lot of talk about this at

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Speaker 4: the moment, and man, how do you feel You know,

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Speaker 4: there's this whole division here between the woke the the

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Speaker 4: anti woke factions in comedy. People have taken their side.

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Speaker 4: How do you feel about it? Well, what side do

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Speaker 4: you take?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I would say I'd be more woke than anti woke.

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Speaker 2: I've got to say I find I find a lot

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Speaker 2: of the I find I find the idea of being Well,

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Speaker 2: it's very easy to define yourself as anti woke, because

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Speaker 2: people who are anti woke will define anything as woke

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Speaker 2: as being anything they don't like. See, woke used to

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Speaker 2: be in some thing, and now it just means anything

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Speaker 2: that sends to the left of the person saying the

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Speaker 2: word woke.

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Speaker 4: Like anything you've vote it down over time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just becomes it's it's become an utterly

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Speaker 2: meaningless term. I think it's just I think sometimes people

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Speaker 2: who are being too right on, and sometimes it just

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Speaker 2: means anybody who just thinks, I don't know, racism is bad.

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Speaker 2: Having said that, I find I find anybody who's whose

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Speaker 2: humor is derived entirely from being woke and getting over

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Speaker 2: to clap how woke they are, or being anti woke

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Speaker 2: and getting over to clap how anti woke they are.

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Speaker 2: I find both of those factions equally tedious. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: do find myself something just going yep, that's an interesting statement.

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Speaker 2: They're a joke coming, yes, and yeah, yeah, but it

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Speaker 2: is weird. Yeah, how tribal the industry seems to have become.

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Speaker 2: I find we're talking about tribalism. I've never been in

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Speaker 2: the country like Australia, or maybe it's a city like

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Speaker 2: Melbourne where the day of the week seems to make

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Speaker 2: more of a difference to how the audience react. Really,

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Speaker 2: because it's the difference between a Wednesday Tuesday audience and

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Speaker 2: a Friday Saturday audience is just night and day. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: I'm suring around the UK, it's not not really that

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Speaker 2: big a difference compared to.

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Speaker 1: Here alcohol Wednesday, because we always refer to you a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night, a school night, and so we we are like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've been in a student union, we're luck well,

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of students once against a Friday night,

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Speaker 1: just going a bit silly.

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Speaker 3: But that's okay.

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Speaker 2: Now I find audience that I sitting there like on

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Speaker 2: a Wednesday night and they're like, we shouldn't be out.

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Speaker 3: This way, naughty.

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Speaker 1: By the way, that's a very tidy Australian accent.

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Speaker 3: You just it wasn't oh yes, it wasn't overdone. It

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Speaker 3: wasn't underdone. It was right in the middle.

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Speaker 2: The one that I just can't I can't get. I

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Speaker 2: give you one sentence with the New Zealand Action if

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Speaker 2: you won't judge me, it's quite an extensive menu. Very good.

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Speaker 3: That's very good. That's very good.

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Speaker 1: And being able to appreciate that subtle nuance between the two.

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Speaker 1: Now when you're in Australia coming up next month, you

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Speaker 1: can just pay attention to just how different it is

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Speaker 1: between the states too, and then then you've become a

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Speaker 1: master of the the accent.

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Speaker 4: There's the difference between Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: And Yeah, and it could also vary from Jason Day.

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Speaker 1: I find as well AnyWho edburn May three as part

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Speaker 1: of the comedy Festival at the Glo that Asta Theater.

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Speaker 1: Good goodness, that is Thursday Friday.

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Speaker 4: You'll be fine, it's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna go off. You're gonna get a final gig of

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Speaker 2: my Australian tourist.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get Friday tour vibes. I I drive past

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Speaker 1: the Asta Theater every day and my way home from

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Speaker 1: a work and there's a one of those big video

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Speaker 1: ads screens, so I sit, I quite often sit at

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Speaker 1: the lights and look at your lovely face and so

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Speaker 1: look for.

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Speaker 3: I don't don't don't take that in a weird.

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Speaker 1: Storkery way, a voice to the face, but lovely to

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Speaker 1: put a voice.

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Speaker 3: To the face. See you on the third of the

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Speaker 3: Asta