Drag,dildo swords and a homosexual wedding that isn’t. Guardian Australia asks some comedy festival highlights why they remove a gamble on polarising their crowd Activist comedian Sean Bedlam tells a story approximately the greatest gig of his comic life; an audience who seized every gag, chuckled at every callback, and chortled at every punchline. For a comedian who flies explicit political colours (Bedlam was recently in Paris,agitating for climate change action during the UN conference there), it was unusual to experience such consensus in a crowd. A punter approached him afterwards, and still laughing,and slapped his back. “That was great!” said the man, in a clear local brogue. “But who was that Tony Abbott guy you kept mentioning?” Abbott was the prime minister at the time.
Not everyone is drawn to politics, and in life or in comedy; in addition,the subject is polarising by its very nature. Yet comics are still keen to risk the appreciate of a crowd for the topic – and not all with the same success as Bedlam.
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Source: theguardian.com