Steve Sheehan
Steve Sheehan's Little Comidy Project
SA Writers Centre
Sat 17 March
until Sat 31 March


The thing I enjoyed most about Steve Sheehan's half hour (+/-) show was that it was often very awkward, largely disorganised and delivered in a manner that was so low key, one wondered what the hell he was doing there in the first place?

In other words, he was so damn endearing one stuck around just to see how he managed to finished off a number of his trifling half-arsed stories that clearly had no prepared gag attached to them. Even if they did, he'd then easily allow himself to be distracted by the smallest of things in the room causing him to digress and therefore attempt to poorly ad-lib his way out of yet another floundering corner he'd paint his way into.

Is this guy na•ve to his own failings or a bit of a nutter who doesn't know bourbon from Pine-O-Cleen, or is he quietly ingenious? I'm not even going to try to answer that. All I can say is if you do get along and you do make it to till the end, and I'm betting you will, let's just hope he finishes off with his Corn Flakes box prop gag. It truly would have to be one of the dumbest and simplest (read: funniest) things I've seen so far this festival. Count me in, I'm a fan.

Steve Jones