Presented by Talking Poofy
Reviewed Thursday 17 November 2011
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Venue: The Ballroom, Feast, Hub, Light Square, Adelaide
Season: 16-18 November at 8.30pm
Duration: 60mins
Tickets: $25/conc $20
Bookings: FeasTix box office or www.feast.org.au
After ten years of puerile sex talk and random faecal funnies, the Talking Poofy boys are here, queer and to be feared, but if you are not taking offence, you're sure to be either blushing or laughing.
These three stand-up comedians have no shame and even less decorum. Much like their Talking Poofy podcast series, which recently hit the 50th episode, they talk over one another and spew out the gags with lighting speed, but their act is so practiced that they never interfere with each other's punch lines.
The show begins badly, with a string of trashy amateur radio advertisements played in the dark, enticing you to invest in the 'Talking Poofy Dignity Reducer', or to buy the latest CD of the Bum Sex Orchestra. You get the idea. It's enough to make you clench.
The commercials go on far too long and offer very few chuckles but, when the lights come up, the laughs begin and stay right to the end.
Scott Brennan, Adam Richard and Toby Sullivan are a trifecta of campy queens, smashed on a cocktail of champagne and Serapax. They talk about gay life, with very little censorship, and flirt with the straight men in the audience, although it's never hands on.
Their material is fresh and flexible with their chatter easily floating between practiced gags and equally funny ad libs about their past few days in Adelaide. It's hard to believe that they only began doing live performances at this year's Adelaide Fringe. If you're easily shocked or offended however, you may start squirming at the no-holds-barred treatment given to lesbians, anal sex, Tasmanian gay bars and their own rectal integrity. Their "gay translations for straight people" is perhaps the safest humour of the show and a fine finale to a surprisingly witty night.
The crassness of it all isn't for everyone, but then again, what style of humour is?
Reviewed by Rod Lewis, Performing Arts Critic, Glam Adelaide.
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