Bill Bailey does the State Theatre
Posted by: Jarod at 5:30 pm, September 18th, 2008
As Liz posted over there (*points*) we went and saw Bill Bailey on Monday night. Black Books made me a lukewarm fan before meeting Liz, then Liz’s love of comedy made me a big fan. The man is a seriously talented musician and comedian, and thus buying tickets to his Australian show was a no brainer.
Liz and I discussed it in the half time break (I refuse to call it an intermission) and while both our heads recognised the funnies as being funny, they were too similar to his previous material (Part Troll) and thus not outrageously laugh out loud funny. It was all different enough, but his style of comedy has become far too ingrained. Sadly, I do believe Bill Bailey has become a bit typecast as the eccentric looking comedian/musician.
It wasn’t all bad though. At a random point Bill wandered off stage to investigate what ended up being a man with an angle grinder slicing up the road outside the theatre. This and a handful of other improvised moments were where I laughed the hardest.
Call me jaded but I’m only giving Bill Bailey 8 out of 13 baker’s loaves. He’s still very good at what he does, it’s just that what he does is hardly new. Given the analogy above, the word stale comes to mind.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Sheree and I went to see him last night as a late birthday present for her. We hadnt seen his stand up routine before and we both thought it was pretty funny. The crowd got pretty involved which was awesome – plus due to crowd prompting he did really stick the boot into the emo subculture which we thought was hilarious :)