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.
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.
