Paul Kelly ProfileSince late April, ABC has been running its Comedy Showroom initiative, airing six comedy pilots from some of the country's most popular funnypeople with an audience vote to ultimately decide which of the shows gets picked up to series.
We're now four weeks into the series, with Eddie Perfect's The Future Is Expensive making its TV debut last night (all six episodes have been available on iview since 27 April), and Ronny Chieng, Alison Bell and Mad Kids' efforts having preceded it in the weeks prior.
Those watching The Future Is Expensive last night (or, indeed, at any stage over the past few weeks) would have undoubtedly been a little surprised when a deck-building montage turns out to be a deck-building montage literally soundtracked by Paul Kelly. Like, just standing there. In the flesh. For no reason. Nonchalantly playing his guitar and singing about how bad he is at building shelves and putting up tents, despite the fact that 'a man's gotta know'. It was honestly an incredibly relatable few minutes of television. (NB: "Good job." "Thanks, Paul Kelly." is just a very simple but wonderfully executed gag.)
See an embed of Kelly's appearance below (skip to 6:35), and head over to iview to watch the full episode legitimately.
