Joel CreaseyJoel Creasey cut his teeth on Perth's comedy scene, smashing through two rounds of Raw Comedy and putting on his first festival show by the time he was 19. He's now writing Rock God, his fifth full hour, and he's become a regular on the comedy festival circuit.
Creasey says his love of theatre shines through in his solo shows. “You can come and see me do stand-up every night of the week,” he says, “but if you want to pay a bit more money and come and see me do a solo show, you should get a proper performance. I'm sooo dramatic. Each show is themed, and there's some element of costume because I am a cliché. This show is all about how I'm desperately trying to get famous.”
If Creasey keeps on the way he's going, it's only a matter of time. He's already becoming a familiar face on national TV and a review from last year called him “Graham Norton's younger Aussie clone”.
“When I got that review, I tweeted it and Graham Norton himself tweeted back to me 'Awesome review! The comparison, however, is a vile slur. You should sue'. I've sent him a copy of my DVD with a note saying 'Put me on your show, arsehole'.”
The greatest achievement, however, of Creasey's burgeoning career came last November. “I did New York Comedy Festival and I got to open for Joan Rivers on Broadway, which was the highlight of my life,” he says. “I spent some time with Joan and she gave me an awesome quote for my poster. She's a legend.”
With the peaks come the troughs, and one of Creasey's worst gigs two years ago saw him being chased out of Colac in western Victoria for calling them “backwards”. Undaunted, he returned. “Three months ago I went back with a film crew and the ABC paid me and Rhys Nicholson, another gay comic, to go back and live in Colac for a week.”
