pretentious makes perfect

Dr Brown is a character played by American dude Phil Burgers, relying on surrealism, so we discussed the joys of performing at a majorly stand up oriented comedy festival without making a sound, putting breakfast spreads on audience members heads (tip: use Nutella, not Marmite), walking the fine line between funny and invasive asshole, having to remove people from the gig, comparing audiences to Melbourne, Edinburgh and Prague, praise from his fans (live! During the podcast! Not a plant!) taking risks on stage, using peoples homophobia as a comedy device, Hans Teeuwen worship, other comedy inspirations, keeping control of a gig, joining the performance world relatively later than he wanted to due to years of fear, Evan yammers his gums about France and then we talk about other things I havent written down!

The last known photo of Dr Brown before he vanished, June 3rd 1986

We kept getting distracted, talking about language, and backpacking

And of course Evan and Sean yammer their gums about vagina politics, the truth that The Goverment doesnt want you to know about Elvis Presley and Fred Astaire and some bullshit tech issues that probably should have been left on the cutting room floor.

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Officer Bubbles, (aka Const. Adam Josephs the Canadian policeman who theatened to a arrest peaceful protester for blowing bubbles at the Toronto G20 Protests) sues Youtube for people making fun of his outrageous ego, some dude goes on a rant about hipsters on the internet and Evan & Sean question how much time he has on his hands, Evan reveals that he has New Kids On The Block on vinyl, Sean somehow links jazz and punk because they both involve inprov, apparently, why lazy hipsters are much better than violent thuggish morons, UNHCR released a report stating that the Israeli Defence Force had shot 5 civilians execution style on the Gaza Floatilla, a video of a unicorn on youtube turns out to be, shock horror, a hoax, Evan and Sean debate weather or not awesome Melbourne band The Parking Lot Experiments hates them or not, Mary McKillop can cure cancer on a whim but apparently ignores genocide, why your filthy naked body is illegal (because nudity can lead to a world without shame, which, of course, is dangerous), controversial US charity pays for drug addicts to undergo vasectomies (aka incentive based eugenics) and then Sean and Evan get angry at people who are against gay adoption.

Then Evan rails on Sean for not having ID, so he cant come with him to visit Leela. Expect this to be a weekly occurrence until Sean gets his ID or Leela gets released!

UPDATE: The lawsuit by Officer Bubbles has, dare I say, popped in his face! Due to the press, all the Cartoon Adventures of Officer Bubbles have been re-released online, garnering 10s of thousands of views in days! In a show of civil disobedience and solidarity with the people sued for the original comments, please view all the videos and comments yourself! Please remember that laughing in the face of tyranny is far more effective than trolling and threats of violence!

http://www.youtube.com/user/MisterOfficerBubbles#g/u

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Triple header! 3 comics, various deep discussions and Sean and Evan squabbling over something petty.

Evans joins Gordon Southern and ends up discussing immigration and the concept of borders, British imperialism, right wing political parties, living out of a suitcase, student sharehouses and their respective smells, Wendy Francis the Qld Family First party, living with Steve Hughes for a month, the infamous Edinburgh comedy room The Tron, gigging in rural New South Wales, wanting to gig in rural Victoria, dealing with the busyness of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the unpredictable weather.

Hello, its the Hulkamania t shirt as mentioned in the Axis of Awesome interview

Next is Asher Treleaven. Thrill as Evan stumbes over his notes like a junkie at Centrelink on Job Diary Day! Struggling to pronounce his second name, they discuss keeping a theme for his shows, his origins as a Carny, street performing, moving away from that area of performing, homophobia in Australia, the hypocrisy of good Christian pro-life anti-gay politican Iris Robinson (who cheated on her husband with a 19 year old dude, laundered political money to his new business, blackmailed it from him and laundered it through her Church while gay bashing), Wendy Francis the Qld Family First party (seems to come up a lot), a hilarious tale of an age controversy in the audience during the show I saw, growing up a stoner in Byron Bay, and then Evan tells a tale of his nana being a horny old goat reading Mills & Boon novels till the day she died.

Windmills and Boon. You'll understand when you hear the interview.

Lastly is Ivor Dembina. Evan talks with him about Israel and Palestine, and Ivor talks of growing up in a zionist household as a liberal atheist jew. Just listen. We don’t want to give anything away.

Evan and Ivor tell it like it is.

http://www.gordonsouthern.com/

http://www.ashertreleaven.com/

www.thinkbeforeyoulaugh.com

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Leela Krishna is a 20 year old male who is currently in Maribyrnong Detention Centre. He’ll be 21 in a few weeks. His crime? Being Tamil and gay in Sri Lanka and coming to Australia to seek asylum.

The Australian Goverment has accepted that he is a refugee, however he is still locked up due to “security checks” which have taken months with no end in clear sight. He has been bullied, attacked, sexually harassed and has attempted suicide several times while the paperwork gets pushed around a desk in circles not going anywhere like a stubborn child with a plate full of vegetables.

First, we talk to Rachel Evans, a human rights activist based in Sydney who’s been working with Leela. She tells his story.

Then Evan attempts to visit Leela with his two mates Spencer and Josh, where he is promptly denied entrance due to his name being on some blacklist. They wouldn’t tell him where they got his name or how he could remove his name from the list. We suspect it is because he was invited via facebook to a protest outside Maribyrnong Detention Centre that got rough, resulting in the blanket ban of many activists.

And then we talk with Rosalie Scolari, who has been Leelas closest link to the outside world since he was moved with little warning from Sydney to Melbourne because the movement in Sydney got too big for poor little Serco to handle.

So listen to this interview, then come to Maribyrnong Detention Centre with Evan to meet Leela. Of course Evan can’t get in but he is very happy to stand in the reception area with a shit-eating grin on his face because it gets under the skin of a machine that profits from putting refugees in cages for as long as possible.

http://www.rac-vic.org/

http://www.caah.org.au/

http://www.ruralaustraliansforrefugees.org.au/

http://www.greenleft.org.au/

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