The show alternated between straight standup and sketches (such as 'The Dave Callan Lookalike Contest, which he lost).

The small audience (it was a Tuesday night)didn't quite know what to expect, and a lot of the jokes fell flat. An attempt of audience participation failed when he asked the audience if anyone else had broken their leg (he was on crutches), and a woman who had enthusiastically said yes, then seemed to not want to divulge any other information, and made the whole piece very confusing.

In fact a lot of the opening had to do with Dave breaking his foot, doing what he called "Propped Up Comedy", that, combined with his outfit made him appear like "The love child of Shania Twain and Long John Silver"

There were numerous sketches, the premise of most sounded good but fell flat in the response it got from the audience. The audience was rather dull that night. Like an Oil Painting. Although there were a couple of good moments. Such as Darth Vader on "Pot of Luck" singing "It's Raining Men" and then killing Bernard King for giving him a bad score

The standup topics were quite diverse, ranging from dirty car games to too much chocolate at easter, references about how stupid irish people are.

Dave Callan is an extremely likeable person, but it was hard to tell,as this was one of the first shows I saw in Melbourne, whether it was the audience or the comedy,that let the show down. I would like to think it was the audience but I would have to say it could be a bit of both.

Highlight:
The sketch about Christmas where they've just put the Baby Jesus to sleep when the Little Drummer Boy wakes him up. A fight ensues and they end up on Jerry Springer , where Mary confesses to Joseph that she's cheating on him with The Little Drummer Boy and God, and she doesn't know who the father is. All on a very special Jerry called "Cheating Dieties Confronted".

Quotes

"Irish people will put anything green in their mouths, as Kermit the Frog discovered when he came over to my house . . . ok I promise there will be no more Muppet Fellatio jokes I swear."

"Talk to the elbow because the face is omnipresent"

Quotes

A remake of the Lindy Chamberlain story: "Crouching Dingo, Hidden Baby".

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