Yawp Mag ISSUE 19 Getting Ready for the Comedy Festival | Page 13

do this. This is a business’. And I was like, ‘shit,
it really is a business, isn’t it?’ The more you
treat it like a business, the more it becomes your
business”. Unlike Nick Cody, Keck is not a full
time comedian yet, but it is something he aspires
to.
Keck is extremely modest when recalling the
awards nights; three so far. In particular, he
mentioned the Melbourne Fringe Festival awards,
where his win was hinted at when “they kind of
said, ‘could you be there?’ but they didn’t say I’d
won anything. I also had to be the ‘Wolf Creek’
guy who would be in their show to play this oneoff character, called Clem from ‘Clem’s Clams’,
but it was all at the same time as the awards. So
I said to the Fringe guys, ‘look, I’ll probably just
be a bit late, but I’m sure I’ll be around’ and they
were like, ‘uhhh, try and be there for it’”.

be up on stage because they were taking photos.
And then I found out!”
‘Let’s Write a Book!’ is clearly going to be very
different to ‘Nob Happy Sock’ and the preparation
currently working through how to read stories
in a way that will be engaging for an audience:
“t needs to be more conversational. When you
start to read out an actual book, it’s kinda hard
for people to take it in and visualise it, so you’ve
got to change the language. It sucked to cut a lot
of bits that I really thought were funny, but I just
have to otherwise it doesn’t make sense”.

On the other hand, his show relied heavily on
storytelling, which he admits is much easier,
“because then you’re just using the language
you would use. They’ve both been experiments.
‘Nob Happy Sock’ was an experiment. I didn’t
He did indeed try to be in attendance, but ducked think that would go anywhere near as well as it
out before he was announced as a winner. “So has. I thought that would just be, again, 21 days
that was an interesting awards night because I of eating shit”.
didn’t know I’d won it and people kept saying,
‘oh congrats!’ and I’d be like, ‘oh thanks!’, just
because I thought the show was over and it was
the last night. And then I wondered why people
kept saying that, when someone told me I had to