COMEDY: It is easy to develop a love for Denise Scott after only a few minutes chatting to her and Bunbury will be delighted with her presence when she performs her latest comedy show at the Bunbury Entertainment Centre on April 11.
She will be performing at the Comedy for Cure and Care event as part of a fundraiser for the Leukaemia Foundation.
Her show will bring elements from her latest performance Mother Bare that exposes the joys of motherhood and the relationship she had with her own mother.
Mother Bare won the Barry Award for most outstanding show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2014.
“The influence that the show has is unique and Mother Bare had three generations coming along to the show, that is fantastic and rare,” she said.
Scott is better known for her role as Mrs Gross on the Channel 7 TV drama Winners and Losers and for her role on ABC’s Spicks and Specks.
On Winners and Losers Scott plays a typical Australian stay-at-home mum and she said people are always surprised when they see her do comedy because she has become somewhat typecast as Mrs Gross.
In recent months she has cut back on the amount of hours filming, because she has wanted to spend more time writing her shows.
No matter what audience she is performing to Scott said she always has tricks up her sleeves to keep them entertained.
“I get around it by thinking of things that will relate to them (the audience) and if I am not sure I always come back to my love of wine and food because everyone can relate to that,” she said.
Scott’s approach to performance has changed over the years and she said even though it was obvious, she genuinely wanted to make people laugh.
She doesn’t enjoy offending people in her act but in the same token she has stopped worrying about what other people think of her.
Most of the time she has enjoyed her job and her development as an actor and comedian over time has made her a much braver performer.
Improvisation is a large part of comedy and Scott said she had a deep love for it because of the uncertainty it brings.
Every performance is so different and even though there is a rough script, the events that unfold on stage are raw and happened organically, she said.
Sometimes the writing and development stage of the script can bring her into the zone for long periods of time and she finds it hard to remove herself from the work.
“It’s weird how hard it can be to just get out of the house and go for a walk.”
The success over the last 30 years has been an exciting and enjoyable journey that Scott has appreciated and has loved being able to keep doing what she does best.
Tickets are on sale now to purchase tickets call 1300 661 272 or visit bunburyentertainment.com
