Jason Chong

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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