Yawp Mag ISSUE 16: SKETCH COMEDY | Page 27

TOP OF THE VOX! Bert Goldsmith D-Gen ‘The Late Show’ So truly Australian without being dumb. I can still watch it and laugh my arse off. They were original, smart and not afraid of being silly. ‘Shit-scared’, ‘Shirty the slightly aggressive bear’, ‘Barge Arse’ and heaps of others. Ben Vernel H: Mr Show with Bob and David Producing is really important. I think it gives the artists - comedians, whatever you want to call them - I think it gives It was smart, with labyrinthine sketches them a deeper and deeper into their that wentchance to just focus onan performance so they were all played intellectual hole butthe producer can take care of the rest. with such silliness and fun that it never felt pretentious. I would break my neck trying to get a festival managed venue. And if I couldn't do it, I would try to get into a kind of hub. Gamze Kirik The Sketch Show (UK) Incredibly funny even today. To me it was an introduction into comedy. ‘Phobias workshop’ comes to mind. It was many years later watching many Lee Mack videos (comedy clips and interviews) that I then decided I too want to get comedy