Yawp Mag Issue 25 Melbourne Fringe | Page 15

st Timers “Stand up comedy is really hard in a sense because it can be quite isolating if your not working with people all the time, and I really thrive off collaborative environments. I love working with people who have a different mind to my own but, that are still creative in the same way that we both want to produce the same thing”. Hughes gets a lot of her inspiration for material from her young daughter, and is proud to be a mother who Is also living the stand up comedian life. Jeannot gave insight on what it is like for a comedian to do festival shows, and how it really works to advance a comedians level on stage. Anthony Jeannot is Unaccept-A-Bubble at the Melbourne Fringe. He explains how he got the idea for his show. To find out about the comedians show hit up the Fringe Festival website. I just had some stuff that I thought was good and I kind of, I think it was the process of working out what am I talking about most consistently, so there was 3 things that have happened in my life that my stand up keeps coming back to, so I thought why not takes these and make them a story”. “The amount of time for me, usually at best you do a couple of MC spots, you do 10,15 if your lucky, but mainly 5 min spots. So just working out how to hold peoples attentions for an hour. How to keep it varied in terms of pace and content, these are all things I’m paying a lot of attention too”.