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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning, Sam, is that run

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Speaker 1: to the Hills? Yeah, well we are talking to Adam Hills.

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Speaker 1: I like what you've done there. We love catching up

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Speaker 1: with this man. You know him best as the host

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Speaker 1: of Spicks and Specks and all his amazing stand up comedy.

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Speaker 1: He's now zooming easy comedy to living rooms across Australia

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Speaker 1: and the universe. For many Australian comedians, the minute coronavirus

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Speaker 1: hit and clubs closed, all that kind of stuff, jobs

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Speaker 1: just ended. So this is Adam's way of helping them

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Speaker 1: find a forum at the moment. Hello Adam, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Good morning?

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Speaker 3: And you love Iron Maiden. I bet in the eighties

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Speaker 3: you had a denim jacket with the sleeves cut off

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Speaker 3: and just made written on the back.

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Speaker 2: Yes. I also had one with the twisted Sister symbol

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Speaker 2: on the back. Yes. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you also had, of course, you're Adam and the Ants,

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Speaker 1: which went the other way for you.

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Speaker 3: That's right, you had a love of Adam and the Ants.

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Speaker 3: You you went and talked to him.

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Speaker 2: I had a big double life. I was a new

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Speaker 2: romantic and I loved heavy metal.

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Speaker 3: Wow, how can you even live.

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what you're doing with easy comedy. How

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Speaker 1: does this work?

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Speaker 2: Well? So, I mean it's changed since it started. So

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Speaker 2: when we started doing it, we were doing it in

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Speaker 2: Melbourne to an audience of sixteen people, all socially distanced,

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Speaker 2: sitting at tables of two, and then people could then

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Speaker 2: buy tickets and watch it on zoom, so it felt

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Speaker 2: like a comedy club. And any any comedian that's played

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Speaker 2: a festival when they started out has played to sixteen people,

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Speaker 2: so we all know how to do it. And the

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Speaker 2: first night, I'll be honest, the first night I have thought,

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Speaker 2: do you know what, I'm not missed stand up that much?

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Speaker 2: I enjoy it, but I reckon I'll be all right

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Speaker 2: without it. As soon as I got that first laugh,

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, I can't believe I've spent.

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Speaker 3: Three months from sixteen people.

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Speaker 2: Even from sixteen people, and you can see it from

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Speaker 2: every comedian of the on stage as soon as they

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Speaker 2: got that first laugh that they've like a switch was

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Speaker 2: flipped and they came alive again. So we did that

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Speaker 2: for the first two weeks and we had about three

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Speaker 2: to four hundred old people watching it on zoom. But

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Speaker 2: then of course, Melbourne went into lockdown, so we took

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Speaker 2: a week off and then we came back and worked out. Well,

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Speaker 2: hang on, there's about ten people in the room trying

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Speaker 2: to make the show happen anyway. There's the people filming,

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Speaker 2: there's a couple of producers, there's a couple of stage

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Speaker 2: managers as well as the comedians backstage. Why don't we

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Speaker 2: just do the show to them? So we to about

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Speaker 2: twelve and like comedians never laugh at other comedians, but

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Speaker 2: they had doing their bed. And I'll be honest, the

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Speaker 2: last couple of weeks have been great. We've had about

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Speaker 2: six hundred people on zoom. We've had twelve or thirteen

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Speaker 2: people in the room. We've had people like Dave Hughes,

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Speaker 2: Denise Scott, We've got Celia Pacola this week. And it's

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Speaker 2: really like watching an actual comedy club live.

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Speaker 3: And how do you monetorize it, Adam, How do you

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Speaker 3: get money out of it?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean people buying tickets on Zoom. We have

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Speaker 2: made it free to anyone who's in life down at

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Speaker 2: the moment in Melbourne, but you can I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: there's not a lot of money we made. This is

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Speaker 2: really just to get comedians out of a house and

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Speaker 2: look after their mental health.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, how are you finding it for everybody?

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Speaker 1: And the ones that you're talking to, because, as you say, everyone,

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Speaker 1: every comedian I imagine needs that fixed, but not just

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Speaker 1: that life has just stopped for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of comedians at first, we're just

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Speaker 2: happy to have a bit of a break, especially you know,

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Speaker 2: people like that. I would talk to, like my mates

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Speaker 2: like Peter Hellier and Dave Hughes and even Tom Police

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Speaker 2: and were like, mate, I haven't been home for ages.

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Speaker 2: It's really good to just slow down. But now it's

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Speaker 2: dragging a bit. Now, I'll tell you this. And I

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Speaker 2: know you guys haven't got into lockdown for a second time,

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Speaker 2: but if you do, it's like being forced to watch

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Speaker 2: the sequel of a movie that you didn't enjoy. The

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Speaker 2: first one was. Yeah, it's kind of like Snakes on

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Speaker 2: a Plane Too.

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Speaker 3: You know what it is. It's Speed Too, Do you

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Speaker 3: remember Speed? And Speed Too was the worst thing in

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Speaker 3: the world, that ship. It was the worst premise and

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Speaker 3: the bad guy was William Dafoe as a bad guy.

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Speaker 3: Suddenly he turned into.

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Speaker 1: A panicking Brendan. Your panicking bring it down bring it.

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Speaker 2: Down's speed too.

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Speaker 1: I read something, Adam that you had on Twitter last

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Speaker 1: week that I thought was so perfect. It was an

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Speaker 1: analogy as to trying to talk to you know, the

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Speaker 1: anti vaxes or the trolls on Twitter. Was like dealing

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Speaker 1: with a pigeon.

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Speaker 2: It was like playing chess with a pigeon, because it'll

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Speaker 2: knock over the pit, the crap on the board, and

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Speaker 2: then it'll shut around as he's got one. Anyway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that was perfect. That's exactly it. Well,

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Speaker 3: let's check you out. Get your tickets from comedy dot

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Speaker 3: com a slash tour slash easy comedy, and you will

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Speaker 3: see Adam Hill's beard free these days as well. Look

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Speaker 3: at that face, it's back.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, my beard's back window when that photo was

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Speaker 2: taken where my beard was gone, but it's come back again.

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Speaker 1: Lazy, lazy lady.

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Speaker 3: This is this is just a typical mother thing, Adam.

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Speaker 3: He just looks so much better without.

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Speaker 1: That because she's one of those pigeons.

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Speaker 3: To look so much better without that beard.

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Speaker 1: Don't listen to his mother, Adam.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Adam joins the and Amanda in the Morning one at

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Speaker 2: one point seven tell you,