Aaron Gocs

19 July 2016 | 12:57 pm | Rip Nicholson

"Tonight Gocsy shows the raw cut of Australia's next breed of comic, minus the sheen."

Surrounded by framed black and whites of bygone members looking down at tonight's speaker at a suburban bowls club, local comic Aaron Gocs is havin' a fair stab for laughs.

Known on social media for his classic stitch-up gag and numerous fast food meal reviews, he's the battler they call Gocsy. And, while he seems no more polished than your average open-mic trier, he's been doing it for a while and people are endeared to his flat-out unpretentious style, allowing us to have as much a laugh at him as with his routine. Tonight Gocsy shows the raw cut of Australia's next breed of comic, minus the sheen.

Rocking a gold sequin blazer with one hand wrapped around a fistful of Red Rooster Flava Wrap Combo, he opened to a 50-plus crowd seated in the upstairs hall. Purely a prop for effect, he strips off the sparkling jacket only to reveal a matching sparking vest. Brilliant. He likens his life to a Venn diagram from working jobs as a taxi driver to delivery driver to joining in on a pie-eating contest on Australia Day — to which he points out that the circles were never going to meet for shaping a new career in comedy.

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Between sips of Vanilla Coke and chomps from his wrap, he throws out bits on fast food drive-thrus, adding tomato sauce to the car's accessories as a standard, and avoids politicking at all costs. After throwing back to us for an impromptu freestyle of topics, he packed himself up after nearly an hour's set to all-round applause.

Gocsy racked up a decent turnout considering the wet, cold shitty Saturday night. His set was splendidly funny in the caesura of his routine — a mishap of conscious streaming, messy at points and clearly unrehearsed. However, this is Aaron Gocs and what we came to witness: the comedy that is, this guy, whether laughing with him or at him. For a $10 outlay, he served up a very appetising value meal.