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Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
This morning I decided I am not going to take a job that I’ve been offered.
Making my mum proud.
Being alone and other people getting busier with families and life.
Handing out the tequilas.
Being giving to the detriment of myself.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
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