LIVE and LOCAL | TOM GLEESON
March 16th 2010 06:17
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HEADLINES THE COMEDY STORE
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TOM GLEESON HEADLINES THE COMEDY STORE
16 - 20 MARCH
TOM GLEESON HEADLINES THE COMEDY STORE
16 - 20 MARCH
Favourite Australian stand-up comedian and prolific TV performer Tom Gleeson premieres brilliant new comedy in Sydney this March!
Gleeson's recent i-phone rant on Good News Week i-phones are like penises - good to play with on your own, but you don't pull them out at the dinner table, saw the nation in stitches! Now see him up-close and personal, in an extended LIVE set, at Sydney's home of Comedy - The Comedy Store, Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.
Supported by a super-strong lineup of local and international comedians including Gleeson's former Triple M co-host of the Tom & Subby show, Subby Valentine (Comedy Channel); irreverent pom down under Julia Clark; compatriot, self confessed schmuc Sol Bernstein; and Michael Workman, Australia's hottest young comic property; a rip roaring night of comedy brilliance and variety awaits.
As a stand up, there is not much Gleeson hasn't done. He's performed at all three major comedy festivals in Melbourne, Edinburgh and Montreal several times. He's been nominated for Helpmann Award for Best Australian Comedian and won the Piece of Wood Comedian's Choice Award at the 2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Renowned for his tall-tale telling, Gleeson pulls his audience in and spits them out with yarns that enthrall and delight in equally lethal doses. For the most laughs in Sydney, catch him in his element - live and exclusive, with a stack of fabulous and funny international stand-ups for a night of pure comic quality.
With a cozy bar, and tickets for just $10-$20 midweek and a maximum $30 ticket price on weekends, The Comedy Store is Sydney's only stand-up venue featuring a constant showcase of exclusive and high profile international and local comic talent - starring new headliners every two weeks.
Check out The Comedy Store website for the most up to date line-ups and listings, special announcements; or to book a show.
WHERE: Comedy Store Sydney
The Entertainment Quarter - Moore Park
(Formerly Fox Studios)
WHEN: Tues 16 March to Sat 20 March
Except Wed 17 March (St Patrick's Day headliner is Irish musical comedy quartet Dead Cat Bounce)
Showtime 8:30pm (Bar opens 6pm) Two hour show
BOOKINGS: Box Office P: 02 9357 1419,
W: www.comedystore.com.au
PRICES - SCHOOL NIGHT SPECIALS:
Tight Ass Tuesday - Tickets $10
Wed $15, Thu $20, Fri $25, Sat $30
OTHER INFORMATION Persons under 18 years must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Tom Gleeson is one of Australia's favourite comedians. You may have seen him on Good News Week, The 7pm Project, Thank God You're Here or on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala. It's hard to turn on the television and not see the man. He is the cool, calm, funny bugger behind every desk on every panel show doing the rounds. However, it is performing live on stage where he really shines.
As a stand up, there is not much Tom hasn't done. He has performed at all three major comedy festivals in Melbourne, Edinburgh and Montreal several times. He's been nominated for a Helpmann Award and he won the Piece of Wood Comedian's Choice Award at the 2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival.
He has also performed at the Sydney Opera House, every capital city in Australia, London, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Jakarta as well as entertaining the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was also selected to perform as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Tom has also been published by UNSW Press with his book Playing Poker with the SAS: A Comedy Tour of Iraq and Afghanistan. This follows up his story The Italian Job. It appears in Take Me With You a collection of tales of long distance love edited by Sarah MacDonald for Random House.
His wit is lethal.
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
People were literally holding their stomachs and rocking with laughter during Gleeson's show. The audience was hooked and honking with laughter.
Adelaide Advertiser
Adelaide Advertiser
On stage the 33-year-old is quick-witted and charismatic. He talks to the audience with the ease of an old friend catching up over a beer.
Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph
Tall-tale-telling manner that constantly engages. Tom on. Very on.
The Age
The Age
SUBBY VALENTINE (Aus)
Subby is much sought after as a Radio Personality, raconteur; standup comedian, TV pundit, writer and as an excellent MC who can adapt to any situation. During Subby's time on air on Triple J, Triple M and Mix FM he has proven himself to be a skilled entertainer as well as interviewer; he has quizzed such notables as Michael Buble, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, James Blunt and Daniel Radcliffe, just to name a few.
Subby is one of Sydney's most experienced, versatile and successful comedians. Despite a punishing schedule Subby has headlined at comedy festivals throughout Australia in addition to appearances in Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Edinburgh.
As a writer he was a big contributor to the highly successful Morning Crew at 2DAYFM with Wendy Harmer . Subby has also written for and acted in sketch comedies and has experience as a television host on SBS's The Mens Room.
JULIA CLARK (UK)
Englishwoman abroad, Julia Clark regards new home Australia through - loving, amused, allegedly a bit patronising, but she means it in the nicest way possible, honest, she really likes your country and wants to stay here "heaps" (see, she's even assimilating your language) - eyes.
Famed for her irreverence Clark gives great UK humor. You'll hear no whingeing here though! Her past and present incarnations as youth worker, backpacker, girlfriend, student, daughter, legal secretary and seething user of public transport, provide ample fuel for her wry observations on the darker and sillier sides of life as a pom down under. Julia was part of the 2009 Melbourne Comedy Festival Comedy Zone showcase of the best new talents in Australian comedy.
tiny British bundle of hilariousness
Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph
SOL BERNSTEIN (UK)
Old-school Jewish comic, Bernstein is straight outta the Catskills, with the relentless patter and sharp tongue on which the entire stand-up artform was founded,.There is something about the rat-a-tat rhythms and occasional lapses into Yiddish slang that made the comics of the original so-called Borscht Belt inherently funny, and Bernstein certainly capitalises on that.
One part Alf Garnett, two parts Mel Brooks, and three parts like nothing you've ever heard The Guardian
An instantly winning creation
Evening Standard
Evening Standard
No age barrier to comic genius
Edinburgh Evening News
Edinburgh Evening News
"Bernstein's the real deal, you'd better believe it"
The Scotsman
MICHAEL WORKMAN (AUS)
On the verge, Workman is one of Australia's hottest young comedians, and definitely one to watch. Taking out top honour at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's 'Raw Comedy' competition, Workman's accolades are piling up. For those who like their comedy clever and ever so slightly absurd, Workman is a must.
Equal parts brilliant and bizarre, Michael is one of the most original voices on the scene in years. If Nick Cave did stand-up it would look a bit like this.
Wil Anderson
Wil Anderson
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