Who would be a good comedian to ask to do a stand-up routine at the drinks hour at the end of the first day of the Jane Austen conference?
criteria:
reasonably priced
already in Melbourne
might be willing or able to say something about Jane Austen
English teachers and academics will like
Dorian has suggested Julia Zemiro but I don't think we can afford her, even if she wanted to do it, which she very well may not.
anyway, you know, HELP! Please.
Wednesday 22 August 2007
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I have been advised by TV comedy writer friends that Corinne Grant is very in to literature stuff. Though she may be expensive (though, again, she needs the work).
She is with Token Management.
I'll keep asking around.
I've never seen Courteney Hocking www.courteneyhocking.com perform but I really like her joint podcasts (www.nonstopical.com)
Boris
Uhmm... one of the guys from Tripod?
Definitely Facebook this, as there are at least two stand ups in the blogging/facebooking coterie.
Corrine Grant studied at LaTrobe, maybe she'd give you an 'old school' discount?
What about Josh Earl? Shhh, shhh, he's a librarian!
Or the Bedroom Philosopher - he's another nerdy type and apparently he drives nerdy chicks wild!
Yeah, Bedroom Philosopher dude is from Sydney, but he does gigs in Melbourne all the time: worth a shot.
"Nerdy Chicks Gone Wild!!!"
Oh man, who doesn't want to see that? They'll be throwing their cardigans on stage and everything.
Love the concept here, Miss Tartan, but I'll be seriously impressed if you can pull it off. I'm guessing literary stand-up is a very small genre. Forget "reasonable" rates, the comedian who can produce a tight half-hour of Austen-influenced wit would be worth their weight in Penguin Classics. [OK, that's actually not very much, even in hardbacks, but you take my point.]
John Clarke?
& I was thinking Julie Bishop....
Hee, I just found John Clarke's web site. Very Literary because it has poems:
Fifteen Bobsworth Longfellow was an Adelaide academic who wrote instructions for kit-set model products, mainly balsa wood aircraft and submarines which ran on baking powder. The manual included here was for the assembling of a twenty-five-foot aircraft carrier marketed by Myer stores between 1954 and 1960.
MYER'S WHOPPER
Take the pieces from the package,
Lay them out as per the graph,
Gathering the bits you'll need,
Removing what you shouldn't have.
With the implement provided
Ease the bearings to the left,
Push the little angled mullion
Up into the socket 'F'.
This will free the moulded bracket
Holding back the nylon strand,
Draw the slippery hoop and coupling
Through the right-hand rubber-band.
Put the topside brown side outside,
Push the inside upside down,
Underneath the left-hand wingnut,
Press the folding backward crown.
Overlapping lifting side-flaps
Lower in to fit the screws,
Pack up tools, retire to distance,
Don protective hat, light fuse.
thirdcat
jane clifton?
Denise Scott. I think she lives in Preston or Thornbury. Just looking at her makes me laugh. And she seems smart as well as being funny.
i think denise is a good suggestion.
Surely Judith Lucy? I just assume she lives in Melbourne, I don't know why.
Yeah, FX, thirdcat is a librarian AND a stand up comic. And Adelaide is almost Melbourne
How about Marieke Hardy? Is she in Melbourne?
But I think that Denise Scott would be brilliant
I was going to say Jane Clifton - she spoke after dinner at an editing conference and was great - she worked in lots of editing stuff. I'm sure she could do some bronte stuff. And she's bound to sing!
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