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Pete Monaghan Stupid But Lucky Belgian Beer Café Oostende, Season closed Pete Monaghan is an idiot, well so he’d like us to know. But begging to differ here, he does actually give his game away by revealing very early in his show that he’s simply just a “Yes man”. Yup, any time someone suggests the merest notion of a lame-brain idea he’s all too quick to jump in and say “Yes”. After all, “how hard can it be?” With an excellent array of slide shots all loaded up and ready to show, Adelaidian Monaghan begins by taking us back to his misspent youth when he and a mate, for no apparent real reason, decided to go work at a Catholic mission in the remote Northern Territory. Nothing ever goes right for Monaghan, but in the end he somehow manages to fall back on his feet, and that’s the premise for this amusingly told collection of tales from the daft side. In a plain and likable yarn spinning manner, he tells of incidences in his life that, as funny as they seem later, were stupidly dangerous or even just plain dumb. Questioningly obtaining his drivers licence at seventeen, and within four hours managing to strand his employer’s month old $24,000 four wheel drive window deep in a flooded creek is one thing, but goofing it up with an upturned kayak and a rubber thong whilst waist deep in crocodile infested waters is another. As was the time he and said mate took on a large school of poisonous catfish whilst bare footed and in wearing not much more than a pair of Stubbies. Same shorts and best mate, different day: now they’re off hunting wild pigs with some seriously under-powered rifles and absolutely no idea. As with their snake hunting expedition and the resultant 48 hour coma. Back home and slightly more grown up, it seems that even working as a public servant behind a counter is not without it’s moments of drug induced misadventure, but such candour is only reinforced with his story of the time, he and the same friend (both hung-over and stoned), decided to go door to door posing as Mormons. Many of us would have stories just like these, but the art of course is in the telling. Here Monaghan, together with great technology, certainly does excel. And I wouldn’t doubt for a second that he has many more stories!  |
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