Aaron Gocs

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.

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.