At last - real humour!

Ok, so Danny Bhoy from Scotland - Glasgow, to be precise - may have stood me up on my arts program on 3RRR but he was very funny. Occasionally dragged a joke out too long (eg 'muuuuuuuUUUUmmmm!') and his defensiveness re his heterosexuality was sometimes a touch tedious, but otherwise he was the funiest person I have seen in the festival to date.

I also saw The Bedroom Philospher aka Justin Heazlewood, a Melbourne boy who combines self-depreciating awkwardness with genuine wit and whimsical wordplay. His show needed a director to help tighten it, but it was still good fun.

Lawrence Leung and Andrew McClelland's Somewhat Secret Secret Society Show was sadly nowhere near as strong as McClelland's last show (a hit of both 2003 Fringe and the 2004 Comedy Festival), A Somewhat Accurate History of Pirates. Emma Westwood gave them a glowing review in The Age but perhaps she saw them on a night when they were tighter and funnier. Perhaps. Or maybe she's just more generous than I am...Anyway, while the idea of an illustrated lecture about cults and secret societies could be fun on paper, it was, in my opinion, a classic example of a funny idea stretched thin: in other words half an hour worth of good ideas padded out into an hour. Shame, really...