Now you too can help a worthwhile cause that requires very little effort at all!
Sunday night I was at the Nectar Bar in Flinders Lane (big shout out to all the Melbournians in the digital house) to watch a fantastic night of comedy in a series of shows MC'd by the adorable host of popular music quiz show Spicks and Specks, one Mr Adam Hills.
Now, long story short, Adam had issued a challenge to audience member and budding comedian 'Jono' during a show a few weeks earlier. Jono's had to do one minute of standup each week for the rest of the show's run, which he's done admirably (except for that week when the video camera attempting to film him was left pointing at the wall for his entire set). Now Adam has set a challenge for the audience - get Jono's name known as far overseas as you can!
Now, long story short, Adam had issued a challenge to audience member and budding comedian 'Jono' during a show a few weeks earlier. Jono's had to do one minute of standup each week for the rest of the show's run, which he's done admirably (except for that week when the video camera attempting to film him was left pointing at the wall for his entire set). Now Adam has set a challenge for the audience - get Jono's name known as far overseas as you can!In Adam's words...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get that video viewed in as many countries as possible. If you live in Australia, send it to your overseas friends, and ask them to leave a comment, stating where in the world they are watching it. If you live outside of Australia, leave a comment telling me where you are. The more countries we can hit the better. Let's take Jono global!!
So all you have to do is:
1. View the video (if it doesn't work, search for "jono", "nectar" and "week 4") to watch Jono's short set. Apologies to any international viewers for language barrier problems. Additional apologies for any coarse language that may also feature.
2. In the comments, write who you are and where you're watching it from. And yeah, some nice comments about Jono's set as well if you can. No flames, he's only new to the game.
3. Let me know here who you are, if you watched the video (sure, he's not Billy Connolly but everybody has to start somewhere) and where you watched it from. I'd be interested to know myself!
4. Get any of your mates, interstate or overseas, to view and comment too.
5. Tell said mates to do steps 1-4 and continue the challenge!
Anyways, being both a young person AND an avid attendee of the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival, I support a young entertainer getting started, so please help pursue Adam's challenge and get Jono some comments from your overseas friends.
Because I know I had a reader from Sweden drop me a line at one point...
To soothe you from the lack of gym-related stuff in this post, while you're at Youtube feel free to check out an interesting little nugget posted by user Gymboost - Team Aus (Allana Slater, Monette Russo, Lisa Skinner, Stephanie Moorhouse Danielle Kelly) warming up and training at the 2003 8-Country Meet in Groningen. Anyway, I know the 'workout video' bit in the title makes you expect to see Jane Fonda in lycra but no, you get an insight into their training techniques, conditioning and of course their work with their coaches. Just watching their uneven bars warmup makes my unfit abs ache...
***If Adam Hills were to one day read this blog (I can hope), my challenge for him - he loves challenges and audience participation, check out myspace.com/adamhills for his past efforts including naming a cactus and phoning absent audience members onstage - would be to go and get a soundbite/video grab of commentator Liz Chetkovich saying his famous catchphrase: 'go you big red fire engine!'
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