1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: It's been an amazing fringe this year and it's still going. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,359 Speaker 1: And you can catch a Bookish comedy show at Universal 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Bar up until February nineteen. 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: Starts tomorrow. 5 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 3: Yes, it gets her. 6 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: Through fringeworld dot com dot au. George de morellis, good morning, 7 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: good morning. Now this you know a lot of a 8 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: lot of shows. The title, you know, you can sort 9 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: of work out what the fringe show is going to be. 10 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: It's going to be a magician, or it's going to 11 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: be a comedian, or it's going to be Now a 12 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: bookish comedy show is obviously going to. 13 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 4: Encorpre It's a pretty self explanatory title. I don't know 14 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 4: how I can do it more. 15 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: How do books and comedy? How do you incorporate the two? 16 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 4: I love the adage there it's like books, No one's 17 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 4: ever laughed at that in their life. It's no, it's 18 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 4: literally like So the structure of the show when it 19 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 4: first started is I hosted, and then I get a 20 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 4: few different comedians to come on as well, and they 21 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 4: do any of the material that's at all bookish or 22 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 4: literary or language based or anything like that. And I 23 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 4: know people hear, sorry hearing that they're like what a 24 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 4: book review? That sounds like I'm going to fall asleep. 25 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 4: But the thing is, uh, you know books can be funny, 26 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 4: and like is it a good comedi comly anything funny 27 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 4: even literature. 28 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. 29 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 4: So the idea is that any any material that comedians 30 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 4: might have which they might would like to do it 31 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 4: other shows like sometimes, but you don't get the chance. 32 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 4: So it's a chance where they can do it and 33 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 4: they know the audience is going to be up for it. 34 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 4: But the idea is that it's still for everyone, like 35 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 4: to something you would do at a comedy show, but 36 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 4: maybe you might not do it at eleven pm at 37 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 4: a pub like you know in Frio something like that. 38 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 4: You know them over a bit too rough. So that's 39 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 4: especially they can get away with that kind of stuff. 40 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 5: Okay, my wife's a Harry Potter of file, so when 41 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 5: she starts Harry Pottering to me, I just start laughing 42 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 5: because some of the storylines of characters funny is does 43 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 5: anyone get up and do any jk rowling soon? 44 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 4: That's exactly the kind of stuff you would do, right 45 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 4: I mentioned, And then you can go off on a 46 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 4: tangent about that stuff and it could be funny. Yeah, 47 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 4: so it's like it could be a book choice, like yeah, 48 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 4: like Harry Potter or some of that could just be 49 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 4: about I mean, I've seen one comedy just talk about 50 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 4: a book her dad tried to give her as a 51 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 4: kid that she was like deeply traumatizing. It was one 52 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 4: of the funniest bits I've ever seen. Yeah, it's like 53 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 4: there's a whole bunch of stuff. I had another community 54 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 4: came on and talked about he never reads. It's yeah, 55 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 4: it's just him talking comes about feeling like, very funny stuff. 56 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's a broader range of stuff in there. 57 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: I'm one of those people who usually finds myself saying, oh, 58 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: the movie wasn't as good as the book. 59 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: The book was better. Do you do you have a 60 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 2: go at people like me? 61 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 4: No, no, No, that's a look. It's an inclusive space. 62 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 4: That's what I'm all about here, Okay, rights, I try 63 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 4: to say everyone who comes in like, this isn't gonna 64 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 4: be a snooty space where like, oh, what you didn't 65 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 4: read three. 66 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 3: Books this week, Well you can just get out of here, dummy, Like. 67 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 4: It's not like that, or like it's so yeah, it 68 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 4: is kind of forever and yes, we also have space 69 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 4: for the suit here among us because you know, look, 70 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,839 Speaker 4: I can I can appreciate this where you're coming from. 71 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: I can sometimes feel like that. But you know, you've 72 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 3: got to restraint. You look to be fair, like to 73 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 3: be fair. 74 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 4: No about how big a budget is for a movie, 75 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 4: it's not as much as your imagination. 76 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 5: The only movie. 77 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: I've saying that was as good as the book is 78 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 2: To Kill a Mockingbird. 79 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 5: Oh, the only one, the only one that's that's. 80 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 2: A brilliant movie as well as a brilliant book. 81 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 3: Look, that's that's true. 82 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 2: Do you have a book genre yourself? 83 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 4: Book? 84 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 3: Look? I grew up being a huge fantasy geek. 85 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, huge, And if you can tell me, 86 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 4: and I like sometimes I slipped up, I'm actually Greek backgrounds. 87 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 4: I sometimes I actually say fantasy Greek. It's a huge 88 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 4: fantasy Greek, yes exactly. But I know so. But I 89 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 4: started from there. I've set you off on that one, 90 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 4: just picturing a favorite fantasy Greeks. There, it's in my head. 91 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 4: It's all just go around, So discuss our favorite fantasy Greeks. 92 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 3: Then that's no. 93 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 4: So I started off there and then I kind of 94 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 4: expanded out so now I look, I know, I as 95 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 4: a male in his thirties. I know, I'm a few 96 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,119 Speaker 4: years away from just turning to exclusively World War two 97 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 4: nonfiction as my book of choice. But still a few 98 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 4: years away from that. So for now, I do do 99 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 4: like I do a little bit of everything. So I 100 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 4: do nonfiction. I do fiction like I like to indulge, 101 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 4: like I mean, I just flew here from Melbourne yesterday 102 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 4: and I was in the airport and one of my 103 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 4: favorite things to do is go through and just do 104 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 4: a classic airport paperback and just get one of those 105 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 4: to read. 106 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 3: Okay, I try to do all types. 107 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 2: What did you get. 108 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 3: Richard Osmond's The Thursday Murder Car? 109 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 2: I like Thursday. Yeah, a few of those. Yeah, you 110 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 2: can get back to Melbourne with another. 111 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 3: One, exactly. 112 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 5: Yeah. 113 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: Now you you got a review from the show from 114 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: the English satirist Terry Pratchett. 115 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 4: That's no, no, no, that was that's me referencing. That's 116 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 4: that's very Bratchett is no. Look, I'm not that old 117 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 4: a few years ago. Yeah, sorry, that's a yeah. But 118 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 4: he was a bit nostro, you know, that's why the 119 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 4: review is him predicting that. Yes, yes, he has brilliant stuff. Well, so, yes, 120 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 4: that's embarrassing. Look, I'm sorry about that. I'm disappointed you. 121 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 4: I was gonna you're waiting for Terry Pratchett story. 122 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: I was waiting for a dead Terry Pratchett. 123 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 5: What were his notes? We know a lot of book 124 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 5: people love the old school, so they love reading a 125 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 5: tangible book. Have you done the Gene Simmons of Kiss 126 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 5: merchandising thing? Do you sell book marks after the show? 127 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 3: You know what? I haven't actually done that. I really should. 128 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 4: I do give away book marks sometimes, but yes, I 129 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 4: haven't actually got around to. 130 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that. I give them away sometimes. 131 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, book marks themed from the show, But yeah, should 132 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 4: maybe jump on that. 133 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 5: I don't like the coin. 134 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 3: I'm like, I gotta make the coin. And what am 135 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 3: I doing? 136 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 4: It's open more roofless George should be doing that. Toad 137 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 4: bags the works, tea. 138 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 2: The audience get involved at all? Does it? 139 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: Does it spark debate? Because people can get pretty thinky 140 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:01,679 Speaker 1: about their books? 141 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 4: Look, they can and like so it's a mixed back 142 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,679 Speaker 4: like so, firstly, I do have games in the show. 143 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 4: Like that sounds like bookish games could go snooze first 144 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 4: to probably large chunk of the audience, so the small 145 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 4: contingent that would want to come, they will want to 146 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: come even merc Now the idea is like I try 147 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 4: to make it interactive. But again with a bookish crowd, 148 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 4: there's a few things I've picked up about it. Firstly, 149 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 4: a bookish crowd, sometimes I can come out of the shelf. 150 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 4: Sometimes they don't want to, so I've had to you know, 151 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 4: you have to work with us also. But at the 152 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 4: same time, some people hear a bookish crowd and they 153 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 4: think it's going to be like very reserved and quiet 154 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 4: sort of bunch. But I don't know if you've ever 155 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 4: been around book clubs, you've been a book clubs. 156 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 3: Well, that's going to say. 157 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 4: I've had I've had shows before, like the rowdies. Shows 158 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 4: of my life in doing comedy all around the world 159 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 4: has been in a book club where you've just got 160 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 4: like a half cut, like a bunch of ladies in 161 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 4: the show book club and they've had a few wines and. 162 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 2: They are for wine and cheese. 163 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 3: It is get scary in there, let me tell you. 164 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 4: I've had to always kick people out because they are 165 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 4: getting very into it, which is great, great vie for 166 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 4: the show, but surprisingly terrifying for the comedians that they're 167 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 4: not experiencing. 168 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 5: Even if they're not looking fifty shows a gray, they 169 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 5: can be doing. 170 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 3: They can get about up and about about anything. Let 171 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 3: me tell yeah, you pronounced a word wrong. I we 172 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:12,919 Speaker 3: get it. 173 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it sounds like a good show to go 174 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,799 Speaker 1: to with your book club. It's on at the Universal 175 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: Bar until February nineteen, both weekends. 176 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: Yes, both weekends. 177 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: You get through Fringe World dot com. Dot you George, 178 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: thank you, thank. 179 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 3: You very much. Leaves and Closey, thank you very much. 180 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 5: If you'd like to book the Fantasy Greek, just go 181 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 5: to gorgeous George dot com. 182 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 3: I'll I'll be poking that up to the show.