Few comedians would actively greet you at the door before their show starts, but Tessa Waters, in many a fantastic way, is not your average comedian.
Fully Sik has the energy of a televised sermon with even more audience participation. Waters, a thunderstorm of sketch and improv, is a commanding ambassador for comedic consent, so if getting hands-on isn't your thing, your worries needn't rest with this show. Her positive and lively demeanour, however, is unavoidably contagious and wins over the crowd instantly. Her style, while overtly and fantastically odd, is honed in timing and structure and knows where the parameters fall.
Fully Sik is somewhere in between Broad City and the Boosh; stand-up for the ABC2 generation. Waters uses what she knows - feminism, vaudeville, and just being her damn great weirdo self - and implants the pillars of her identity in the foundations of Fully Sik. The audience doesn't have to look far beyond what is happening in front of them to see the Waters that is so clearly just as much there to have fun as they are. If it weren't obvious already, Waters screams "I fucking love my job!" at every opportunity she can.
From the reactions of those present, it's clear she's not the only one.
Tessa Waters presents Fully Sik till 23 Apr at the Greek Centre, part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
