Burgers controls the room with his twinkling eyes and precise gesticulations, as we’re enveloped in a touching love story set to the sexy salsa of La Sonora Dinamita. The chemistry fires between Dr Brown and the beaming people he picks (on) from the audience. When he does appear (entering backwards, of course) he’s wearing a blue dressing gown and a trapper hat, with an ash-smudged nose from a cigar he holds throughout the show but never lights. With disarming ease and a talent for misdirection, Wong’s routine hits comedy gold time and time again. Wong’s a queen of the throwback, seamlessly manoeuvring different premises and subject matters only to catapult back with utmost dexterity and stealth. But she takes it one step further – blurring the lines between what’s real and what isn’t within an already outlandish premise.
Sometimes the jokes write themselves, as Wong reads from a Beyond Blue pamphlet on how swimming with dolphins can cure depression. Wong’s two takeaways from almost falling victim to a scam are so unanticipated they elicit guffaws. An amusing anecdote about accidentally and unexpectedly being invited to someone’s engagement party suddenly morphs into an exploration of living with chronic depression. A clue lies in the title – Wong was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which means many things, but which she somehow extrapolates into commentary on housing affordability. Jennifer Wong Has No Peripheral Vision is on at The Westin Four until April 9.īut that’s not solely what Jennifer Wong Has No Peripheral Vision is – Wong’s far too clever for that. Jordan Gray | Is it a Bird? Melbourne Town Hall, until April 23 Reviewed by Sonia Nair Note: No star ratings are applied to group shows Maan rounds off the show with a relatable routine on the pseudoscience practised by brown parents that has the audience laughing in recognition. Pakistani-Canadian comedian Amna Bee’s deadpan, wry style segues unexpectedly into masturbation and a great bit on how she broke the news of her divorce to her parents. In contrast, Sydney-based comedian and podcast host Kripa Krithivasan’s more gentle set touches on veganism, shedding the expectations of being the eldest brown daughter, and in one particularly memorable bit, the limited role models brown women have. Having just completed her own run of shows, Urvi Majumdar starts the show off strong, charming the audience with humorous stories and a standout response to the trite question “Where are you from?” Poet-in-a-former-life Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa illustrates the differences between Melbourne and Perth in Bollywood songs and reveals the real reason she doesn’t like Rupi Kaur.Īctivist and influencer Moose Jattana bounds onto the stage to deliver a candid and uproarious stream-of-consciousness set on the most taboo topics of the night (to the brown parents, anyway): being bi (bisexual, bipolar, bilingual) orgasms STIs and suicide. It touches on some of those things, yes, but so much more – sex, mental health, queerness, divorce.īrown Women Comedy is on at Queen Victoria Women’s Centre until April 12.
There’s a well-documented gender disparity in the comedy industry, but there’s a race problem too – a double whammy for women of colour.īut if you’re solely expecting jokes about the idiosyncrasies of brown parents and the weight of unmet cultural expectations, Brown Women Comedy isn’t for you. “Out of the 500-plus shows at the comedy festival, I counted only eight brown women – and six of them are here,” exclaims Daizy Maan, producer of Brown Women Comedy and the show’s concluding act. ★★★★★ Reviewed by Vyshnavee Wijekumarīrown Women Comedy Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, until April 12 It’s also about finding commonalities – there were four dual citizens present.Ī worthy companion to her scripted show Such An Inspiration, Is This Anything has an air of unpredictability that’s thrilling to watch unfold. Confessional stories from the audience included a septuagenarian treating insomnia with medical-grade cannabis an uneventful lesbian orgy where participants were afraid to initiate advances and a recent discovery of being a donor baby.
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