Katherine | June 26, 2009
A MacGuffin is an object that drives the plot forward and is the focus of suspense. Someone or many people often are quite desirous of this object, or have some intense emotional connection with it, and find their actions concerning that object somehow frustrated. The greater people’s desire for the object and the greater lengths [...]
Katherine | June 24, 2009
The comedy element of “ignorance and enlightement” is most popularly used in farce. Farce is a form of storytelling that involves exaggerated and improbable situations that frequently include witticisms, sexual innuendo, mistaken identity, and disguise. Classic examples would be Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. More recent examples [...]
Katherine | June 22, 2009
I bought myself a ticket to Ross Noble’s 2009 Things Tour as a personal “birth-month” present. I had seen him do his stuff on Spicks and Specks on more than one occasion and enjoyed his humour.
The show was at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre where Pink and ACDC had recently played. Those performers are well known [...]
Katherine | June 19, 2009
I have been keeping a journal since I was very little. I just liked being able to draw pictures, write poems, and scribble down ideas whenever I felt bored or inspired. Journals are not like diaries in that you don’t have to have the discipline to write something down every day. And you don’t have [...]
Katherine | June 15, 2009
I don’t have so much a birthday as a birthMONTH! So I’m still celebrating, even though the event was a week ago. This Friday was the actual party and here are a couple photos. The theme was “Rock Gods”.
Yes, this doesn’t have a lot to do with comedy, but it’s my blog and my birth-month. [...]
Katherine | June 14, 2009
For those of you not living in Australia a comedy sketch show The Chaser’s War on Everything has once more made the news for one of their sketches. For some reason our media loves waggling its finger at controversial comedy coming out of our public television channel the ABC. You will not find the same [...]
Katherine | June 12, 2009
Today’s exercise has to do with microphone technique. This is crucial. Your audience has to hear you, if they are going to respond to your comedy. Roaming around venues recently I’ve become acutely aware of the variety of microphones with which you might have to cope.
Rule Number One
The first rule of microphone technique is to [...]
Katherine | June 10, 2009
I wrote this yesterday, but because I came home after midnight the previous evening, I fell asleep before posting it!
I’ve decided not to worry about announcing my current open mic gigs, because I have a list I’m working my way through and am never certain what night I will be attending and whether I will [...]
Katherine | June 6, 2009
Now that you know something about the inner life and world of your character, it’s time to have some fun. It’s time to play dress-ups!
Before you get started one element of stock-taking needs to be made. Have you created:
A normal character living in a comic world.
A comic character living in a normal world.
A comic character [...]
Katherine | June 5, 2009
My apologies for not warning people about this performance. I didn’t want to promise anything, because I had no idea what I was going to be walking into.
The Joiners Arms open mic night is run by Corey Stewart. He also runs open mic at the Daniel O’Connell and is establishing a South Australian Open Mic [...]
