Privilege, Gala, Salon Tomorrow
Added 2021-03-22 00:30:03 +0000 UTCHallo lovely
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I’m currently sat in a fancy hotel lobby, writing up my script for the ABC all stars Melbourne Gala show for television.
This is one of the attendant privileges of my life; the way I was brought up to feel like this is something I’m allowed to do - walk into the lobby of a hotel I’m not staying at, and get some work done, saving money on a cafe. Also they play better working music in hotel lobbies than cafes. Smooth unobtrusive jazz or classical, so there you go.
I know many other people don’t get to make that call, so I always feel the impulse to give some blood money to a charity of at least the amount of money I’d have spent to buy that tea/time at a cafe, so it’s not really a saving in the end. But I still come out on top because I get more work done, because of the jazz or the muted lighting.
Anyway, I can’t remember what I did at the gala last year (the year before) except that they cut all my jellyfish anus material for the television broadcast, which I contend was a mistake.
Trying to remember my own jokes by virtue of what AUDIENCES like rather than what I like is hard, because I’m often fond of the jokes that took a while to make work, which means they’re usually the more difficult and less TV friendly ones.
Any suggestions for jokes of mine that you particularly like or would like to see me do in a four minute set? I’m thinking sexy song is a banger, and maybe some Elon musk stuff... or maybe Elon musk isn’t mainstream friendly enough?
Tomorrow’s salon is back to being for Afternoon Tea and up subscribers, though I always enjoy the all levels ones; I’ll have to square the circle on my feelings about paywalls at some point(!) but anyway, it’ll be at 8pm Tuesday 23 March in Australian Time, (concert at will, stick in your diaries) and I’ll send through the password tomorrow afternoon to the relevant level subs.
Topic: Tea With Alice Salon 17
Time: Mar 23, 2021 08:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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I can't remember the exact wording or the context but it was definitely a line that needed a crowd - something like "don't blow smoke up my ass...unless you think it's full of wasps?"
2021-03-22 09:34:44 +0000 UTCHa, Thankyou! I don’t remember saying anything about wasps, but I’ll try to remember
2021-03-22 09:29:11 +0000 UTCNot from your standup but I feel like the blowing smoke up my ass/Wasps line that was more-or-less a throwaway remark in RHLSTP had something brilliant about it . I've been turning it over in my head ever since, so much so that I had to look up the origin of the phrase and now wish I hadn't.
2021-03-22 09:28:06 +0000 UTCOutside the twittersphere I don't feel Elon Musk is as revered (observed talking to people in my small bar in north Brisbane. Totes scientific), so I think your stuff would still fly. And I can never delight in your description of him enough 😂
Peta Thames
2021-03-22 01:36:01 +0000 UTC
