Comedian, writer & Filmmaker

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Give Fringe Tickets this Christmas!

For tickets to Jason Chong’s Reel Life, click here! 

Take it from someone with experience. No one appreciates it when you buy a goat in Somalia on their behalf. 

This Christmas, treat your friends and family tickets to Jason Chong’s Reel Life at the 2010 Adelaide Fringe.

Jason Chong was just awarded the Adelaide Comedy Comedian of the Year and his upcoming show takes stand up comedy and video projection and asks the question “Will it blend?” The answer will hopefully be “mostly.”  Read More

Fringe 2010 tix on sale now!

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For tickets to Jason Chong’s Reel Life, click here! 

Tickets for the 2010 Adelaide Fringe are on sale now.

You can see the entire program at www.adelaidefringe.com.au or go straight to the most important page (mine) by clicking this link.

Jason Chong was just awarded the Adelaide Comedy Comedian of the Year and his upcoming show takes stand up comedy and video projection and asks the question “Will it blend?” The answer will hopefully be “mostly.”

Reviews are coming in! Read them below.

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AdelComPod needs Fringe reviewers!

ACP logoDo you want to see lots of shows in the 2010 Adelaide Fringe next year? Do you have opinions? Why not combine the two?

AdelComPod is looking for a reviewer or two to do some audio reviews in the 2010 Adelaide Fringe.

For all the details, go to the page on the AdelComPod! site by clicking this link. 

And why not subscribe to the podcast while you’re there.

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Why The Bloody Hell Aren't Ya? @ The Melbourne Fringe!

I’m bringing my show “Why The Bloody Hell Aren’t Ya?” to the Melbourne Fringe.

Here’s the blurb: It’s a show about giving blood. If you want to know more about donating blood, what happens, what it’s used for and see a picture of a cat being ridden, this is the show for you.

‘Highly entertaining and informative show that everyone should see.’ – The Groggy Squirrel 

‘A bloody brilliant show for a great cause.’ – Rip It Up

It’s on from the 5th to the 11th of October at the Northcote Town Hall (Studio 2). It’s a show I’m really proud of, so I’d love you to see it. You can find out more at www.melbournefringe.com.au

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Roadshow Diary Day 24…

Currently in: withdrawl 

So I’m home again, and it’s all over. I have to get used to life on the outside again. No everlasting towel supply. No transport organised for me wherever I go. And definately no 1000 seat sold out theatres to perform to night after night.

I had a think about it, and I think I would have performed to more people in the last month than in my career to date. Certainly just fringes and festivals or club gigs. I gotta work harder…

Here are some things I didn’t blog about at the time for whatever reason:

In Margaret River, a guy from the audience expressed interest in me becoming the agent in Adelaide for his chocolate selling pyramid scheme. How did he know I have nothing to go back to?

In Perth, we went to Lesbian mud wrestling. It’s everything I imagined, except less classy. I like the bits where there were boobs.

I got randomly selected for explosives testing on pretty much every flight we went on. I must have one of those faces. And by “one of those” I mean “not white”.

I went and got a Chinese massage at one of those Chinese massage places. I think it’s going to be my new thing.

And yesterday, we read in the Kalgoorlie Miner that 400 school students tried to break the WA record for line dancing. They weren’t sure what the previous record was, but their teacher Dianne Begelhole said something along the lines of “well we did it, so that’s good enough for a record”. So from now on, whenever you do something you simply assume to be a record of some sort, please refer to it as a “Begelholed”.

And with that, I need to thank the MICF, Gideon, Stu and Adrian for organising and planning and promoting and making sure all I had to do was work for 20 mins a night.

To all the venues and the people of WA for coming out and supporting. The shows were great and the fantastic audiences are why.

And DeAnne Smith, Tommy Dean, Glen Wool and Colin Lane. A bunch of comedians I admire, respect, learnt from and have become quite fond of. And Glen.

You just got Poh’d, Wool!

As I left Perth airport, I thought this would be appropriate:

 

Cheers for following along,

Jas 

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Roadshow Diary Day 23…

Currently in: transit

We woke up in Kalgoorlie, where we saw the superpit yesterday:

Impressive, no?  What about this little guy:

 

The mascot for a company pillaging the Earth for gold is a small fluffy teddy bear.  Nice work, PR department.

Today we left “The ‘Goolie” at sparrow’s, flew into Perth and found out that the plane for our connecting flight from Adelaide had been used for a flight to Jakarta instead, and our travel cancelled.  So I’m not in a cafe, killing time until the next available flight home.  And when I get there, my wonderful girlfriend has promised to take me straight from the airport to the cinema to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  So can you see why I hate Qantas at the moment?  At this stage, I’d hop in Starscream if he offered… 

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Roadshow Diary Day 22…

Currently in: Kalgoorlie

Driving from Esperance to Kalgoorlie was a great experience, lots of Australiana to enjoy.

Fancy living here:

Imagine being the Mayor of Salmon Gums.  It sounds like you have terrible breath.

Widgiemooltha was another gem.  Home of the Golden Eagle Nugget.  It’s great you do poos, Widgie, but for God’s sake, don’t name ’em.

 

In fact there was a bit of a toilet theme here.  From the public art: 

 

To pleads for people to not urinate on the roadhouse: 

 

To pleads to not let dogs do impressively rendered turds:  (I think this is what’s known as a hangman’s noose) 

 

To this sign, which I’m still not sure about:

That sign made this whole trip worthwhile. 

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Roadshow Diary Day 21…

Currently in: Esperance

The Feast 

So we finished our Perth run and to celebrate, we went out to some swanky restaurant in Cotteslow.  It was nice, but really dark.  Here is a photo:

I had a delicious steak and lots of trimmings.  At least that’s what they told me they put in front of me.

The next day we went to Esperance.  Not much happened, but while in Glen’s room watching the tennis, I used his toilet.  I had to take a picture of this:

 

I just want to cuddle him. 

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Roadshow Diary Day 18…

Currently in: Perth

Backstage

So we spend a lot of time backstage, here are some things.  This is the world’s worst collection of skateboards:

  

No when we’re backstage, Tommy supplies us with an endless supply of board games. By far, this is our favourite:

 

 

It’s a horse-racing strategy game with little dudes on horses.  It’s got more drama than an high school formal and more horses than Sarah-Jessica Parker’s family reunion. And when one pops up on eBay, it’s mine!

His Maj

And here are some pics of where we’ve been performing this week – His Majesty’s Theatre.  It’s gorgeous and lovely and from the stage looks like a cross between a Lenny Kravitz film clip and Thunderdome. 

 

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