Top comedians Judith Lucy and Denise Scott’s new show talks about shattered dreams, mistakes, and failures.
The pair will bring their comedy extravaganza, Disappointments, to the Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre on Friday, August 10.
Fresh off their smash hit run at the Sydney Opera House, their trip through Western Australia will also feature shows in Albany and Mandurah.
“There’s costume changes, a set, video...we won’t say too much but we finish the show with a dance and wall-to-wall hilarity, of course,” Scott said.
“We do spend quite a lot of the show in our beds so that’s a bit of a different approach.”
“We’ve both reached the stage where we’re less interested in stand-up and more interested in ‘lie-down’ comedy,” Lucy added.
“You’d be amazed by how it strikes a chord with people, they come along and everyone in our audience just wants to lie down.”
Disappointments marks their first show together since The Spiral three years prior.
Performing to sell-out crowds and clinching the People’s Choice Award at the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lucy and Scott are embracing the experience.
“Desperation and unemployment brought us back together,” Lucy said.
“We just didn’t have the strength to do a show on our own so we thought we should pool our desperation and disappointment.
“All we do is say our disappointments, share them, and then celebrate them.”
Lucy and Scott are adamant the show provides plenty of laughs, sharp observations, and honest self-reflection.
In putting together and performing the show, the duo said they have discovered new things about their audiences around the country.
“Maybe what we’ve learnt is not so much about ourselves but about our audiences – we’ve learnt they too are full of disappointments,” Lucy said.
“It’s not just the old people, the young people also love sharing their disappointments.
“It may sound a little depressing but it is a celebration of disappointments.
“We embrace our own, the audiences embrace their own, and we embrace our disappointments as a country.
“It becomes an explosion of mediocrity.”
The pair, however, have found contentment in taking life one show at a time.
“In becoming a stand-up comic, I just remember the excitement of thinking: ‘I am able to do a job that involves me being in a bar and drinking at night’,” Lucy said.
“That was more exciting than I can begin to tell you.”
Visit comedy.com.au or bunburyentertainment.com for more details.
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