Oh man I loooove de cake

Saw Little Britain live last night at the Brisbane Convention Centre, and it was excellent. Very clever and imaginative production, incredibly fast costume changes, hilarious sketches and even more hilarious ad lib work when the scripts got left behind. We had expensive tickets, but it was worth every cent (despite the annoying screeching laugh of the idiotic woman behind us who must have pissed herself she screamed and laughed and repeated the lines so much!!)

Thinking about it today, they are a really complimentary comic duo. I couldn't say which of them is my favourite, and there doesn't seem to be any in-fighting between them over who's the dominant one. I think that's a rare and valuable thing in entertainment, I just wonder what they'll do next.

Some of my highlights from the show:

• Marjorie Dawes picking a fattie from the audience to humiliate on stage, then telling us that cake is low in fat if you have a slice of it on a Ryvita (and sprinkle a bit of dust on top)
• Seeing the Dennis Waterman sketch live - it's even funnier when they have to make the props work without clever camera cuts
• Matt Lucas and David Walliams falling out of character in a shop sketch and just ad lib'ing about Matt being gay.
  
• David Walliams apologising to the kids in the audience for the rude content "to all you kids out there, I'm fucking sorry, ok?"
• During the interval, and for 15 minutes before the show started, the cameramen picked out people in the audience and showed them on the big screens - hilarious!
  

It was a pretty big venue, and with the big screens on either side of the stage it was realistically easier to watch those rather than the stage itself - which felt a bit more like watching TV than being at a live show, or perhaps more like watching a DVD of a live show. I guess the same was true at the Eric Clapton gig too.

I think we did go and see a fair few gigs when we were in London, but one of the differences here is that there are only top quality gigs every now and again, rather than every day of the week, so when they come along everyone gets tickets for them. I reckon that's quite a nice balance - there were almost too many things to see and do in London, it was hard to filter through all the static and find the things you wanted. With less choice here, but with top class acts typically including Brisbane on their tours, the stand-out gigs are clear to see.

...and we've got some more tickets to wicked live comedy coming up - Dylan Moran in May, and then we've got tickets for seats about 6 rows from the front for Ross Noble actually on my birthday in June :) Both of those gigs will be in more intimate venues, which will be nice.