Today Radio New Zealand National’s Music 101 programme aired a wee feature on musical comedy - The Secret Life of Musical Comedians. I’m included, as are fellow local musical comedians Robbie Ellis and Becky Crouch. Have a wee listen, why don’t you.
The Secret Life of Musical Comedians (Radio NZ)
Well, the public have voted, and it looks like I’ll be writing a song about the following delightful apocalyptic scenario:
Justin Bieber, James Blunt and Michael Buble cross streams and the Staypuff Marshmallow [Man] appears and drowns the earth in a flood of barf
Thanks, the public! If you’d like to hear the song and/or see me perform it, you’ll need to come along to the show.
I’ve also tallied up the genre suggestions, and it turns out there was a tie between ‘country’ and 'bluegrass’ so I’ll take that into account as well.
Other suggestions included progressive rock, rap, acid skiffle, Christian metal, Christian rock, folk, gospel, 80s sitcom theme song, pop, crooner style, Bach fugue, death metal, ska, 80s synth (with futuristic overtones), reggae, Gregorian chant, and rock opera (Meatloaf style). I’ll see what I can do.
In case you’ve arrived late, here’s the deal: I’ve been taking suggestions for how the world is going to end, via Twitter, Facebook and this very website.
Suggestions are now closed: it’s voting time. Click through to the voting form and choose your favourite apocalyptic scenario; I’ll write a song about whichever one gets the most votes, and that song will feature in We Are All Doomed. You can also suggest a potential genre for the song, and if you leave your email address I’ll also put you in the draw to win two tickets to We Are All Doomed on the night of your choosing.
Choose wisely.
UPDATE: Voting is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated!
My Comedy Festival show this year, We Are All Doomed, is all about the end of the world. It might be Ragnarok or the Rapture; the rise of the machines or the heat-death of the universe.
I’d like to know how you think it’s all going to go down. Tell me how you think the world will end - either in comments, or on Twitter - and I’ll put the best suggestions to a public vote. I’ll then write a song based on the winning suggestion, which will feature in the show.
I’ll take suggestions until 10am on Friday 14 March, then the vote will happen sometime after that. So do your worst, I guess…
So, you know, you can go and buy tickets to We Are All Doomed. If you want.
Here’s the poster for We Are All Doomed, designed by staggeringly good poster artist Hadley Donaldson. If you’re not super-demanding and you pay your bills on time, you should hire him to do your posters, too.
Hey, so it looks like I’ll be doing a show in the 2014 NZ International Comedy Festival. It’s called “We Are All Doomed” (subtitle: Songs for the End of the World) and it’s basically going to be an hilarious hour of songs and jokes about how an unstoppable catastrophic event will soon lead to the human race’s effective extinction.
Sounds fun, right?
Of course not everyone agrees on exactly what form Armageddon will take so I’ll be preparing for a variety of possible scenarios, from Ragnarok to The Rapture, and from Pandageddon to the Catpocalypse. I might also ask for some apocalyptic suggestions, so keep an eye out for that.
Mark your calendar now.
We Are All Doomed
Cavern Club, Allen Street, Wellington
7pm, Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 May 2014
I wrote another story for FanFiction Comedy this year. In this one, I imagine what it would have been like if my favourite childhood TV show, Knight Rider (which was sadly cancelled before its time) actually got the final episode it deserved.
This one didn’t go down as well as the last one. I guess there weren’t that many Knight Rider fans in.
Michael Knight’s Last Stand
“Here’s to another successful mission, KITT,” said Michael Knight, as he and KITT pulled into the driveway of the Foundation for Law and Government after completing another successful mission. “I’ll just go inside and debrief Devon.” He opened KITT’s door, and bounded up the stairs into the luxurious mansion that served as the Foundation’s headquarters.
I wrote this story for my guest appearance during FanFiction Comedy’s first Wellington show, back in May 2012.
It appears that perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick. OR DID I?
Fan Fiction
It was a hot summer’s day, and George was hard at work. Not everyone could have handled the tireless back and forth of George’s job, but he liked it - and according to independent tests undertaken on behalf of Consumer magazine, he was pretty good at it, from a price versus performance perspective.
…for coming along to Songs for my infant daughter. I had a great time. If you liked the songs then good news! I’m going to attempt to record some of them and make them available for download at sometime in the not too distant future.
Of course, the Comedy Festival is far from over, and I strongly encourage you to get out and see more shows this week. I can recommend Michele A'Court, Jeremy Elwood, and TJ McDonald and Nick Gibb; I’m also keen to see Steve Hughes, as I really liked his set at First Laughs. And if you didn’t see Jonny Potts’ show in the first week of the festival (I saw a preview and it was great) then it returns this Friday and Saturday.