1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Claire Hooper so proud. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: It's at the Oasis Comedy Club and the Laugh Resort 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 2: between January twenty four and twenty eight. Tickets are through 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 2: fringeworld dot com, dot au and clares with us now 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 2: good morning. 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 3: Oh hello. 7 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 4: I love because of Fringe. I always get to see 8 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 4: you two when you're fresh from holidays. I get the 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 4: best quality version. 10 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,159 Speaker 5: It's not the grumpy Augustus food do a zoom in. 11 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 4: I'm gonna yeah, I'm definitely going to have to plan 12 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 4: a different tour next year. 13 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 5: Good No, I don't do that. 14 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 4: Whereas you you get to see all the comedians at 15 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 4: our most anxiety riddle, don't you. 16 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: It's a very busy time of the year for comedians 17 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: because this is like the beginning of the season. 18 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 4: Festival season and first Fringe. Fringe World sees people at 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 4: their freshest, you know, like. 20 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: You may be a bit craziest too, which is what 21 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 2: we love about Fringe. 22 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 4: We're a couple of nights in. I've been out every 23 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 4: night in Fringe so far, doing lineup shows, seeing a 24 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 4: couple of mates shows, and yeah, there's some manic energy out. 25 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 4: There's some comedians who've lost their voices. 26 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 3: Already signed too much projecting. Sure, we'll call it projecting. 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: That's what we love about fringe. Tell us about your 28 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 2: fringe show. So Proud is about those moments of. 29 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 4: What is it? 30 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: Not just kids? 31 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 4: Fine to say what your show is about, because who 32 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 4: really knows, no, but it's it is about. Look, here's 33 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 4: the thing. My kids are school concert age now, so 34 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 4: we've got a really dull few years ahead of us. 35 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 4: I know it consert, but it's also like, okay, all right, 36 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 4: here's here's the deal. My kids concept was three hours long, 37 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 4: no bar? Why do you even have an interval if 38 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 4: it's no bar? Like if you're not going to even 39 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 4: offer me a packet of chips or a cup of tea, like, 40 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 4: just have a drink for the toilet, right, like you? 41 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 4: What are we doing here? Makes the money off us? 42 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 3: At least we know that was nothing, just a lot. 43 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 4: Of panicked looking parents, like three hundred people assembled in 44 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 4: a conference room. 45 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: P and C is that that doesn't see the opportunity. 46 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 4: He's an opportunity, right, And so it's you sort of 47 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 4: feeling so sorry for yourself as a parent, But then 48 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 4: you're looking at the teachers and you're like every minute 49 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 4: of this that I'm watching, they've watched twenty times before, 50 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 4: you know, when they count them in, like five, six, seven, eight, 51 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 4: they're coming down to holidays. That weird thinking of being 52 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 4: The reality is, I'm a comedian that doesn't drink, so 53 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 4: I am used to watching people who still live with 54 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 4: their parents not know when to leave a stage. But 55 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 4: I was so the kind of overwhelming experience was was 56 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 4: this what it was like for my parents? And I 57 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 4: don't know how I've got to forty seven and I'm 58 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 4: just having these realizations, you know, like and I know 59 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 4: that that's a real joy for parents to watch their 60 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 4: children go through the things that because you can't explain it, 61 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 4: it just happens to. 62 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: You, and you have to jump a generation in enjoyment, 63 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: doesn't it. 64 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, my poor mom because I was mad for a 65 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 4: concert when I was a kid. 66 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a bit of a bit of payback in there. 67 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, how wonder how about dance? 68 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 5: Because the dancing is a three hour show for your 69 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 5: four minutes of your kid on the stage, and normally 70 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 5: it's near the end. It's a lot of watching other 71 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 5: people's kids. Do they dance at all? 72 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 4: You've been to some dance concerts hown't you? 73 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 5: Yeah? My daughter yeah big time. 74 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 4: Oh boy, yeah, mine's only just started at this dance school. 75 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 4: And we chose it because it was a three minute 76 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 4: walk down the road from us. I was like, well, 77 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 4: that's convenient. It turns out it's a fancy, proper one 78 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 4: where the dance concertigt's a fifty dollars, so you're right, 79 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 4: it is. It's hours long. Your kid's on for three 80 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 4: and a half minutes, and that is your that's your 81 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 4: return for fifty. 82 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: Dollars and no bar. 83 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 4: I mean, well, at least I'll be honest unless there 84 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 4: was a barf. Okay, yeah, I know, isn't that. But 85 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 4: the dance cud isn't so serious because all the parents, 86 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 4: like I don't know the routine, but all the parents 87 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 4: turn up with like small bouquets of flowers for their 88 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 4: daughters at the end, Like we're talking serious stuff. We're 89 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 4: going to have to find a new dance school because 90 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 4: because the weird thing is you're putting in these dance 91 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 4: tuition fees and you, I mean, you've got me started now, 92 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 4: You're paying so much money and you're trying to get 93 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 4: your kid from the back row to the front row, 94 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,239 Speaker 4: and I went and saw that constant. I'm like, actually, 95 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 4: I don't want my kid anywhere near the front because 96 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 4: those back row kids, they've got no expression on their face. 97 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 4: They're just doing their best, having a great time. 98 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: Kids. 99 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 4: Have you how was your daughter a front row kit 100 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 4: those those kids chairs? 101 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: Fine? 102 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 5: She was back row who started moving forward? 103 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 3: I never got right to the front. 104 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: Do you try not to have short kids? 105 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 4: No? 106 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: No, no, no. 107 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 4: It's the confidence of it. It's like, Okay, they're the 108 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 4: kids that know all the routines and they know how 109 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 4: to make eye contact with the audience, and they full 110 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 4: jazz hands and it's so unsettlingly confident, Like I don't 111 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 4: want that in my house. I would be afraid to 112 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 4: go to sleep at night. They're going to kill me. 113 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 3: Do you mean they're just the really good precocious child actors? 114 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 5: Like it's really this is unbap And do. 115 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,559 Speaker 4: You want to do you want to live? About twenty 116 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 4: four to seven? Thanks for dinner, mom, great sleep, loud 117 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 4: to night. Do you know what I'm like? Kids? 118 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: Creepy? 119 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 4: We can't do this anymore. We're not a dead children. 120 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: Of the front row corn a little bit? 121 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 3: Really, Yes, this is the. 122 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 2: Time of the year combining you know, fringe school holidays 123 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: and Christmas that you get to spend a bit of 124 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 2: time in town at home. 125 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 4: Have you what we've been near the whole? 126 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: What impressions have you been left with this visit home. 127 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 2: We were just talking about the quantas quendus. 128 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, this is the beautiful thing because we're up 129 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 4: in the hills and there are quendas everywhere. Like just 130 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 4: eating the chook food and the chik pen and wandering 131 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 4: around my children's ankles. It's adorable. They're the little bandicoot, 132 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 4: the hills bandicoot, and they're back because people have been 133 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 4: keeping their domestic domesticated animals inside at night and so 134 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 4: the wildlife's back, which wow, heartwarming. My kids are wrapped. 135 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 4: It's like little when he knows Quakers. 136 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,119 Speaker 3: Just yeah, because I saw it is a Quaker. 137 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks like a copper with a pointy Yeah, 138 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 4: numaty a little bit rah. That's rights a numbat with 139 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 4: a Quaker have a quenda and I love them. 140 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 2: That is great to see the payoff because I mean, 141 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 2: we're all cloy and I both cat people, but we 142 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 2: have indoor cats. Yeah, and it is good to see 143 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 2: the payoff in people doing that. 144 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: You're safe for your cat too. 145 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 3: By the way, do. 146 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 5: You do a Quenda selfie or is that. 147 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: Just don't you're going to ask for a Quander impersonation? 148 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 4: You never know, look if you want. But it's not 149 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 4: very radio friendly. They're quite a quiet. 150 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 5: But I'd be proud of you. 151 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 3: Quenda selfie, Quinda selfie is yeah, yeah, we're. 152 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 4: Going to have to do that, aren't we. The Quakers 153 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 4: can't get all the selfline. 154 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: And then see how many people go that's not a quicker. 155 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, but they're sick of tennis players. 156 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 4: I think, yeah, fair enough, fair enough. Tennis is pretty 157 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 4: hot at the moment though. Yeah. But it has been 158 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 4: a very wholesome summer in Perth. 159 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 5: Oh good. But the settling back in at home home 160 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 5: with the kids back to school. That's not always easy 161 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 5: after summer, is it. 162 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 4: Don't you know it's going to be so hard. My 163 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 4: kids are sleeping in on Perth time, and we are 164 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 4: going to in one week fly home and send them 165 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 4: to school and they are going to still be asleep 166 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 4: in their chairs at about lunchtime. He's going to go 167 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 4: to sleep and then the teacher will wake them up. 168 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 3: For play lunch. 169 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 4: Yeah. 170 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, the only ones though, it must be. 171 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I had a hard time just last week 172 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 2: trying to reverse the hours I have to staying up late. 173 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 3: I had to bring extra play staying up late. 174 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 4: So much plun Yeah, yeah, my poor little kidd is. 175 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 4: They're not and they're also I mean, there's not many 176 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 4: quendas no, but I'm going to take them to a 177 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 4: much sadder place. 178 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 5: I wouldn't try and smoke it will be. 179 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: You could take a pair of quenjas home. I'm sure 180 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: that would be front. 181 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 4: Please keep it quiet, nobody talk about. 182 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,679 Speaker 5: Then as we speak. You can take an apple clear, 183 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 5: you know that. 184 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right. 185 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 4: I don't know what stands with the quenda. Put your 186 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 4: quens in the very quiet I'm glad quiet a quenda 187 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 4: surrender bin. 188 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 5: Sounds of another show. 189 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: It does well. 190 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: This show is Claire Hoopers So Proud, and it's at 191 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 2: the Oasis Comedy Club and the Laugh Resort between January 192 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 2: twenty four. 193 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: We're a twenty second today, aren't we? 194 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 2: So Oh it's Wednesday, Wednesday and the end of the week. 195 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: Tickets through Fringe world dot com. John, Are you enjoy 196 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 2: the rest of your time in town, enjoy French. 197 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 4: Or you know I well good in the morning. 198 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, the adrenaline is building. 199 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 3: Thanks CLI to see your home clear.