the comedy festival opened last nite so we went to see ross noble just like last year. it was brilliant-- tangent after tangent after tangent..... and he still got to the end of the story he started with. when zac first booked the tickets we were all in row A. knowing what a ross noble show is like zac went back thru the internet booking site and booked again. we had tickets dead centre near the front of the balcony section-- we'd rather laugh at someone else being the butt of his jokes. he went off about chinese dragons, being killed by a bowling pin set up machine trying to use it to put on pyjamas, bogans, a moroccan kid using "a dingo ate my baby" as a catch phrase, drilling baby seals, pandas eating bamboo poles shoved up some poor guy in row D's arse...... i'd have to say the best part of the show was a poor girl who just had to go to the washroom half way thru the second half the show. after she left the auditorium (just as he'd done with anyone who had left the room before her) he started making fun of her knit jumper thing (or harness has he referred to it). i was crying i was laughing so hard. and of course when the woman came back in the entire audience burst out with laughter (just couldn't help it) and she had to make her way back across the stage in front of the front row to get back to her seat on the far side. i was a little disappointed when he went off on religion though. he thinks its all crap and spent 10 min going off on christians, mulims, and jews (although he says he "respects their rights to be idiots"). i didn't find any of that bit very funny. overall a great show though. i think about 2 1/2 hrs with an intermission and a 10 minute question period at the end that ended up with him wearing the faux fur coat of a woman in the front row while a few dozen mobile phones were held up to take yeti footage (i'm expecting some of those videos to be up on you tube later today).
Friday, April 06, 2007
fizzy logic
the comedy festival opened last nite so we went to see ross noble just like last year. it was brilliant-- tangent after tangent after tangent..... and he still got to the end of the story he started with. when zac first booked the tickets we were all in row A. knowing what a ross noble show is like zac went back thru the internet booking site and booked again. we had tickets dead centre near the front of the balcony section-- we'd rather laugh at someone else being the butt of his jokes. he went off about chinese dragons, being killed by a bowling pin set up machine trying to use it to put on pyjamas, bogans, a moroccan kid using "a dingo ate my baby" as a catch phrase, drilling baby seals, pandas eating bamboo poles shoved up some poor guy in row D's arse...... i'd have to say the best part of the show was a poor girl who just had to go to the washroom half way thru the second half the show. after she left the auditorium (just as he'd done with anyone who had left the room before her) he started making fun of her knit jumper thing (or harness has he referred to it). i was crying i was laughing so hard. and of course when the woman came back in the entire audience burst out with laughter (just couldn't help it) and she had to make her way back across the stage in front of the front row to get back to her seat on the far side. i was a little disappointed when he went off on religion though. he thinks its all crap and spent 10 min going off on christians, mulims, and jews (although he says he "respects their rights to be idiots"). i didn't find any of that bit very funny. overall a great show though. i think about 2 1/2 hrs with an intermission and a 10 minute question period at the end that ended up with him wearing the faux fur coat of a woman in the front row while a few dozen mobile phones were held up to take yeti footage (i'm expecting some of those videos to be up on you tube later today).
I'm jealous.
ReplyDeleteI've got a Ross Noble DVD and a CD set of a travel series he did for BBC Radio. Brilliant.
Maybe I should try to grab him for a radio interview when he makes it to Perth and grill him about his thoughts on religion. :)
He has a right to rant about religion.
ReplyDeleteas he says, it's all bollocks. And it's about time it was bloody well stopped, and "just think it through" is the best line i've ever heard.