Apparently, Good Friday is about the son of God dying so that we might be saved, or redeemed or something. Or maybe it's about having extra fish with your chips to mark the start of an extra long weekend.
Anyhoo, for me and Muddy K, Good Friday this year was about having a day off work, having a late shower, and then heading into town for some Melbourne International Comedy Festival fun.
We scoffed a quick dinner of Barossa Valley shiraz and some aoli-soaked fries before noodling down to the Hi Fi Bar on Swanston Street to see Des Bishop Likes to Bang. Why this show? Well, frankly, in the festival program, there's a photo of Mr Bishop wearing a tie. I thought 'He looks smart. He must be funny too.'
And he was. Very, very funny.
American by birth (a New Yorker to be precise), and an Irish resident since his teens, Mr Bishop has great fun taking the proverbial out of Irish drinking habits, Irish emigration, the pleasures of an Australian holiday working visa and the trauma of buying hair dye for men. He knows just how to work both the natives and the Irish expats in the crowd.
Along with an extended bit on his own teenage drinking, there is a fabulously filthy extended riff on hotel sex, menstrual sex and hotel menstrual sex:
"The maid'll walk in the next morning, thinking she's stumbled onto a crime scene."
"Do it in the shower. Pretend you're making a horror movie."
"Hey, moisture's moisture!"
The show ends with a spot of audience participation. Mr Bishop has taught himself to play a Roland V-drum kit in the belief that anyone can write a hip hop hit, provided the lyrics are just "arrogant enough" and the chorus ripped off a known, popular track. He enlists the aid of audience-member Sean from Adelaide who provides a terrific Bon Jovi "Always" chorus to accompany Mr Bishop's own hip-hop composition.
The show runs until 22 April. Check it out.
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