Danny Bhoy: Dear Epson

Bhoy, Oh Bhoy Danny Bhoy loves Sydney. He does all the right stuff to get us on side – you know, bags out places like Penrith and Bankstown, pokes fun at our accents and irreverent honesty and blasts our painful inner city parking debacle, “You know who they should send into Afghanistan? Sydney Council. They'd fix the situation so that car bombers have nowhere to park. They'll just keep driving around”.

It's all those homely quirks that make us feel special. Make us feel like Danny really knows us, he really gets us. The formula worked. It's been working for nearly 12 years now. Why he felt the need to add in letters…

Ok. So the show is titled 'Dear Epson…' but everybody knows the title of any comedians show is pretty irrelevant. But, keeping with the theme - interspersed between jibs and jabs of stand-up, Danny perched himself on a chair and read out letters to companies he had beef with.

“I am trying to change the world.”

His main gripe is with the cost of Epson ink and starts of the 'letter theme' by reading one he'd written to the company frustrated at their ink costs. It continues, with Bhoy then poking at Oil Of Olay (Ulan) and its age reversal creams, “it seems your clinical studies are clinically bullshit”, before avenging women everywhere and taking on Clinque and their Anti-Gravity Eye Cream, “For years scientists have been trying to harness the power of gravity and now Clinque has done it! Well, not only have the done it, they've managed to contain it! In a tub!” And so on it goes, with Bhoy's other targets – scented candles, Vodafone, Telstra, Jetstar and British Airways. Let's all laugh at the things that frustrate us! You hate Vodafone? I hate Vodafone too!

Admittedly, the letter formula is a nice, easy and cohesive thing to build the show around. But it's boring. It's tiresome. And Bhoy has proven himself to be a clever enough comedian to deliver the material straight without the need of letters as props.