Man, ya might not know it but the Perth comedy boom is finally happening. It’s like 1991 in New York right now – as if Paul F. Tompkins puked out a stream of perfectly formed highly sensitive clones and those clones travelled back in time to catch Pryor at the Hollywood Bowl and with those clones with lessons learned shot forward to 2015 and landed in Perth to bring forth the ultimate comedy extravaganza – I’m talking Frasier if the whole cast was just David Hyde Pierce. These guys are tearing it up, and they’re coming to a club near you.
1. Sam ‘Stinky Wizzleteets’ Peterson
Haha, oh Sam, you ripe old card. Sam ran a magnet shop in Darwin, but after his ol’ gal Ti-Mai gave him a ripe booting, he drifted into comedy. Sam’s at every open-mic night with his two step kids Pao and Lin (they’re the ones making that gurgling sound throughout his set) and when uncle Sammy isn’t taking them to Time Zone, he’s MAGNETISING the yucks straight outta the audience with ripper one liners like, ‘I’ve been on the circuit for 19 years, please take one of my pamphlets they cost $2.35 each to print’ and ‘Have you seen Pao her mum’s gonna kill me’. Lova ya Sammy!
2. Billy Cruddup
Billy won the prestigious Carmichael Coalmine Young Chuckles Comedy Youth Award, and like every other bi-monthly winner, has shot to stardom. Lookout for this guy on Triple J dropping some mad dis-bombs re that 2010 ‘oh not you, whitey’ Macklemore because Billy is a youth and is surfing the Youth Pulse. Billy has such beautiful white straight teeth and the earnest enthusiasm of an 18 year old who hasn’t quite figured out the boundaries of consent and enjoys Arts vs Science with 0% irony. He’s tearing up the scene with his satirical breakdowns of L plate restrictions and prophylactic packaging confusion (‘tear here or tear HER! HAHA’). Better be fast to the draw, cos Billy the Kid gonna pop ya one.
3. Jemma Mack
Oh man! Jemma has realised the secret to Amy Schumer’s success is not her wit/originality/style/poise/experience/perspective/ability/skill but the fact that she talks about naughty things like sex (yuck! But stick with me). Yep, Jemma has some funny stories about OkCupid that involve giving handjobs to a guy that looks a bit like her uncle and the time a guy told her ‘Don’t try your material on me’ during a blumpkin. Boy, modern romance sure is complicated – take it from Jemma, who once hooked up with a guy while in line for the Log Ride at the royal show. Oh, she’ll shock ya, but like her uncle’s doppelganger, you’ll beg for more.
4. Clint Furlong
Sure, he loves 4Chan, Time Crisis Mods, male victimhood, and white supremacy, but Australia’s gun laws (boo) have kept Clint from becoming just some run of the mill mass-shooter in a Naruto themed duster jacket and instead one of Perth’s edgiest stand up comics. His killer material about being rejected by the desk girl at JB-Hifi and his violent fantasies of revenge that he’d meticulously take on her if only he didn’t need his mum to drop him off on her street is some of the best stand-up you’ll see in Perth nay the entire south-metro area. That chin beard ain’t just style, it’s to hide a cleft palette!
5. Guthro
Ok. Schtick comics can get tiresome. We’re not all Andy Kauffman. There’s one guy in Perth who just stands still telling jokes like he’s a US president circa 1887. Guthro is nek-level. Billed as ‘Perth’s Greatest Wit’ and opening for such uber-amazing celeb-medians like the bald guy from Skithouse and that gay guy that said ‘faggot’ on some Channel 10 panel show back in 2008 – Guthro is the inscrutable planet-core of Perth comedy. Coming on stage draped in nothing but chain linked fencing and an IGA cooler bag-hat of his own invention, Guthro’s whole thing is just dribbling the curious brown bile that he can INFINITELY produce from his ulcer ridden gut down his chin, neck, and chest while simultaneously beating off like a Parkinson riddled pervert in Hyde Park. The only Perth comic that arguably garners a genuine reaction from his audience, Guthro is the mining state’s answer to George Carlin. This moneyshot is worth the money.
So there ya have it. Move over bald guy from Skithouse – Perth is one roving enterprise you don’t want to underestimate!
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