Comedy Bang! Bang!

29 August 2016 | 5:14 pm | Uppy Chatterjee

"Host Scott Aukerman spends the first five minutes picking on this scribe ... with a "who the fuck are you?!"

Go into Comedy Bang! Bang! with no expectations, so you're not surprised when it takes on its peculiar not-quite-podcast, not-quite-skit-show format.

Tonight our acerbic but curious host Scott Aukerman spends the first five minutes picking on this scribe  apparently photographers aren't common at Aukerman's comedy shows because I'm hit with "who the fuck are you?!". He proceeds to wonder aloud if this is a paid gig and asks what's written on my shirt  I never wear this damn shirt and it's upside down and written in cursive and in my panicked state tell him I have no idea. Disappointed with my bantering skills and apparent lack of self-awareness, Aukerman dismisses me with "oh, you're no good!", imitates what I said and continues with his show. Yeesh. 

Show-wise, expect a rather lacklustre warm-up set from Mike Hanford, Paul F Tompkins as the hysterically funny, pompous Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber (definitely a highlight of the show), Aussie quirky-girl-next-door Claudia O'Doherty as herself, a faux-innocent schoolgirl in Orange Is The New Black's Lauren Lapkus and a spattering of Aussie-specific jokes that'll have you in peals of laughter.

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It might be the world's first standing-only comedy show, but you'll come out feeling like you've eavesdropped into one of the most nonsensical, ridiculous conversations all year.