The Fallout With Seinfeld And Messing With Celebs On Twitter

Becky Lucas can't help but be funny. The comedian, performing her latest stand-up show Baby at the Brisbane Comedy Festival, has just realised that she was meant to be conducting a (late) morning interview. "I haven't had time to pre-plan some spontaneously funny things," Lucas quips.

The rising Brisbane star — now based in Sydney — made her solo debut at 2015's Melbourne International Comedy Festival with High Tide after being named a RAW Comedy finalist two years prior. She'll be returning to the festival circuit with Baby. "I guess it was just a show that I wanted to write — just stuff that I'd been thinking about for the past year," Lucas says of the concept. "I like to write about stuff that just gross girls do... I feel it's quite modern things that single girls sort of understand." Lucas rattles off some of those things, such as ordering from Menulog multiple times a week. "I talk about getting caught having sex wearing a backpack," she deadpans. What? "It's not like a sub-section on a porno site or anything — it's just something that accidentally happened to me." Lucas also tackles the topic of feminism — about which she's blogged at beckylucashenko.tumblr.com, questioning its corporate 'co-option'. "I'm a very lazy feminist — but I am one." She reckons Baby "will resonate with, not a younger crowd, but people who haven't sorted out their life yet". As for the 'baby' bit? Lucas isn't giving it away. "It gets a little bit full-on at the end, but I think it's good. It's a very light show — it's very silly and fun. I tried to make it as jokey as possible. So there's no big, long stories about my cat or anything... I tried to make it quite punchy."

The Baby blurb states that Lucas opened for Jerry Seinfeld "before their falling out" — "a joke", she affirms. "It's good to tell a few lies and then for them to just develop into truths!" Lucas says mischievously.

Lucas has a similarly irreverent approach to Twitter — for her as much a hobby as a professional platform. "I love Twitter. I think Twitter is the best. It's so much fun 'cause you can just be exactly who you are on it and people either like you or they don't. It's so volatile. In a day you can lose 20 followers and the next day you can gain 50 — people don't have to follow you if they don't want to." Regardless, the entertaining Lucas has attracted a dedicated following. And she enjoys tweeting celebrities — most famously Today presenter Karl Stefanovic, who called her "a bloody weirdo" (it's gone into her bio). "One time I tweeted at Flo Rida. I just said something like, 'What are you doing?' He wrote back, like, 'Partying, girl.'"

Lucas' writing skills are in demand. She worked on the third — and strongest — series of Josh Thomas' acclaimed Please Like Me after a producer caught her at MICF. But Lucas is likewise keen to gig more internationally, having performed a split show with Beth Stelling at Los Angeles' UCB Theatre last year. "I'm hoping after [the] Melbourne [fest] and [its] Roadshow and all that I will go back to LA and just do some shows and stuff — that would be my goal for this year."