& Suren Jayemanne
being here, doing my dream job, it’s given me
so many opportunities, but at the same time, all
my family’s back home in Sri Lanka, and as time
goes on, it’s getting harder to leave my parents.
As much as I love Australia, because my folks
are back home and I only see them once a year,
it’s getting pretty s****y to leave them behind”.
Jayemanne recalls a highlight in his career, which
occurred during the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival in 2014: “I got to perform in
the Comedy Zone, which is a showcase where
the festival picks five people from across the
country. The festival produces it, so they give
you all these sweet gigs, so I got to perform at
the Town Hall, just a one minute spot, but I think
I might do more minute spots, because it’s pretty
easy to do well in a minute. I got to perform at
the Hi-Fi Bar at the Festival Club as well, so that
whole festival was a definite highlight so far”.