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Lush Kim Hope & Extra Mile Entertainment Rhino Room, Downstairs Until Sun 14 March Kim Hope is a funny girl who likes to play with her tits, which she calls "The Girls". Bursting onto stage, in what is a very cute theatre set up, Hope sets the energy level right 'up there' from the very start. She's a giver, not a taker and the audience loves it. She's zany. She goes straight for the jugular, the junk on telly and the genitalia. We are really glad that Hope doesn't take herself seriously. She sees the humour in flawed situations and isn't afraid to play the fool - if she did her life would be pretty scary! The audience loves her imperfection and her brilliant characterisations - the 'booming' butterfly, the hacking, hobbling nanna from hell and her gagging dog Angas. We love her improvisation of an elephant with a makeover (look no wrinkles) and her skit of the brain laughing at the head with a throbbing hangover, "Oooo - I'm glad you're awake. Let me show you what you did last night..." Hope loves Adelaide, which helps the audience love her. She loves Liquorland, being drunk and 'coming on' to strange men. She also loves 'coming on' to the audience - (to the cuties in the front row)... "Hellooooooo... what are your names, darlings? Hmmmmmm, you're loooovely!" Hope also loves telly but doesn't think that Extreme Makeover is very extreme. She'd like to see something like Extreme Extreme Makeover - where the surgeons have to abseil in. Or Dangerous Extreme Extreme Makeover where they bungee jump with a scalpel in their hand and just aim for accuracy - "Whoops! Sorry about that! I was going for the nose..." She'd even go under the knife herself - this lush doesn't want to have to tuck "The Girls" in to her socks when she grows up. Hope tells us she has gained weight but she doesn't want to go on a diet - whether that be a blood group diet or a wheat grass diet (do cows really look that thin?) And she reckons that the only reason you look thinner on the cabbage soup diet is that you fart so much your friends can't come near you. From a distance anybody looks trim. The highlight of her act is a hilarious performance of tips on how to attract the opposite sex. How such a bonny lass can look so ugly is a credit to her skill as a comedian and actor. For an "out of town-er", Hope really connects to the people. She knows Adelaide's quirks and has a truckload of funny stories from her travels. I thought she was great. |
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