A few weeks ago, we had a boys’ night out to see Tom Gleeson at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. We were seated in the back row, with four people sitting in front of us who constantly talked through his performance and complained that he wasn’t funny. At one stage Tom heard these comments and did a great job of putting the main protagonist in his place. The second time they were ejected.
Now, am I missing something here? This wasn’t his first performance. He wasn’t being promoted as a brand new comedian who no one had ever heard before. His TV and radio exposure is significant. So why would four people part with just on $100 to go and see someone who they’d already concluded wasn’t funny? Bizarre!
(I was reminded of this when I saw one of Tom’s mini-gags on Facebook this morning – “Will and Kate stay at $5600 a night resort. How much do they pay search and rescue pilots?”)
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