Nick Cody: Inappropriate

While on a family holiday last year, Nick Cody entertained his sister's family by taking them to a Thai ping pong show. For Sporting fans, this wasn't a sporting event. After some ping pong ball gymnastics, “it was all a laugh, but when the budgie flew out, I felt that it had crossed the line.”

Nick Cody likes the inappropriate. He has also conveniently named his new show Inappropriate to encourage straight out understanding that Nick Cody isn't a comedian for your grandma. Unless your grandma is into that.

After spending some time in the US, taking to the stage in New York, Las Vegas and LA, he's back and ready to make some noise at the 2013 festival. As well as plenty of sell out shows from the past few years and recent guest spots on NovaFM, he has been getting some attention on Dave Hughes ARIA-nominated DVD, Dave Hughes is Handy, with a feature spot. Nick can be found everywhere in the Melbourne comedy scene, his sharp wit and down-to-earth banter a funny twist on the familiar for Melburnians. His presence on the net is filled with blogs and YouTube makings. Last year Cody and fellow comedian Troy Kinne caught the attention of Olympic fans with the online videos, Shit NEVER said during the Olympics. He later found out that it made the rounds at the Olympic Village.

Nick is straight up and honest that he believes comedy has got to push the edge a little. “If you have come to a stand-up room and find something inappropriate… I find that really silly.” After a number of times being informed that he has crossed the line, including a joke about epilepsy, he realised that he needed to make it clear that's where he lies in the comedy spectrum. Part of being a comedian for Cody is going to those places you shouldn't go. Something that is 'too soon' has already been said by him and he is looking for the next off remark to get you to cringe and realise we all think those thoughts. Nick believes that people focus too much on the taboo rather than listen to the content, that “People hear the word, don't listen and react to it, just because of the word.”

Stand-up is this guy's world. He jumps right in and delivers the pure craft of comedy. Let Nick Cody test your morals and make you laugh at the social boundaries he will inevitably break.