Chip and Moo in Mr Natural – A Bodybuilding Odyssey, a show in this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival – HIGHLIGHTS:
I’m here to tell you about an amazing journey, From Puney to Perfect™ two extraordinary gentlemen took over the course of a gruelling two months to reach the heights of the best drug-free bodybuilding competition this world has ever seen.
The show was staged at Young & Jackson Hotel on the corner of Swanston St and Flinders St, opposite Flinders St Station and Federation Square. What a brilliant location! A cosy dining room upstairs in the salubrious Chloe’s Lounge was converted into a venue pulsing with the energy of eight different festival shows over the course of the month long festival. Mr Natural was a sell-out success, literally selling out every show of the last week, with three quarter houses in the first week. The show gathered quite a vibe on the street after furious flyering by the guys in somewhat revealing outfits in front of the Town Hall!
The show itself was a roaring success, morphing and developing over the course of the run, as all good partly improvised scripts do. By the end of the run the room was actually over-capacity a number of times, to the point of gate-crashers sneaking in for free after their meals to see what all the screaming and laughter was about!
This fantastic public impro performance in Central Station Antwerp in Belgium literally brought a tear to my eye. Partly due to Do-Re-Mi with a techno bridge, but mostly due to the spontaneous smiles it provokes in onlookers’ faces. These kinds of public impro (although with 2 rehearsals it’s not strictly impro – but still) performances are getting quite common (at least on the webs) these days, but the shock and entertainment they give to people passing through on their average day is certainly good reason to keep them going.
This is worth watching all the way through. Half-way through you think it can’t get any better…but you would be wrong.
The boys from Top Gear have out done themselves this time.
I still get nightmares from the final scenes in Akira, where one character becomes so massively muscled that he turns into a mountain of bulging flesh. I’ve been in therapy and been working through my issues, slowly getting closer to being able to go to a gym or look at my own triceps, until now….
At the extreme risk of causing a space-time paradox and destroying the universe in a super-massive blackhole…
This Japanese guy created a stop-motion animation with still photographs, then created a stop motion animation of those photographs moving around his room to create a beautiful meta story. Make sure to stay til the end for the twist!
