Adam Hills

||Go You Big Red Fire Engine||
Happy Feet||
||Cut Loose||

Go You Big Red Fire Engine

The title of this show is my new mantra in life. I use it all the time. Not just because we are right near the bushfires and there are fire trucks going by constantly.

Is it wrong to say that I love Adam Hills? He's so charming and nice and so bloody funny that its hard not to love him.

Part of his charm is his interaction with the audience. No matter what size of the crowd, you feel like your having a conversation with him in the pub.Like you would with your friends. Although his main comedy style is satire, he can (nicely) take the piss out of someone, and their not offended. Mostof the time they join in.

Eminem, Americans and his love of the 80's take presidence in this show, all topics that he takes passionately into his heart. I was just happy that I found someone who loves A-Ha's "Take On Me" as much as I do.

Go You Big Red Fire Engine

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Adam Hills was in a airport the moment September 11 took place. So not surprisingly a lot of his show was about the aftermath. In particular how scared he was on the flight he took that day, and what an idiot Geoege Bush is. That and how he has a prosthetic foot

What makes Adam so likeable is his ability to include the audience, throughout the show he asked the crowd to include their own experiences. And he laughed along with them. It is quite rare for a comic to take a back seat and allow themselves to be upstaged.

It was some very sensitive material in which he dealt with. Other comedians that I saw at the Comfest didn't do so well in that area, but he's just so damn nice that you can't help but laugh.

The only disturbing bit about it was when he was telling us the stupid questions people ask him about having one foot. Like can you still have sex? and most disturbingly, do you use it? Now I was quite drunk that night but in the weeks after when people asked me to quote a bit of what Adam said, the only thing I could remember was Adam's response to that question "Come here and I'll fill you like a slipper"

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I believe this is the title of Adam's new show, I saw it at the Comedy Store at Fox Studios and there was no name attached to it but I heard the title later and it seemed to fit. And no it is not a tribute to the works of Kevin Bacon.

Like his previous show, it centers on a topic of a sensitive nature, in this instance Bali. Not the incident itself. It would be wrong to joke about that already,if at all. But in the changing nature of the way we see the world,and the need for us to live in the moment and be free. Hence Cut Loose.

Adam also talked briefly on the topic of body image and the need to seek perfection in the way we look,and perfection in others. And he said something about our relationships that made me think Hell Yeah. He said we shouldn't be fixated on the need for a partner to have these certain qualities, nor should we look at these for ourselves. All he wanted was for someone who wanted to kiss him and could quote The Simpsons. And deep down inside, isn't that what we all want?