Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2018

Got a ticket to this on a whim - like, a few days before sort of whim. I've known about this show over the years but had never gone to see it. 

This guy was quite a sight.
Almost everyone took a picture. 

However, I was curious about the new performing arts space that was The Platform in Menara Ken in Taman Tun (aka BFM's new digs). 

No luck getting one of the street parking outside cos I only got there after 8 p.m. (would be nice if it were the case, but oh well), so was stuck having to pay the parking inside (which btw was RM5 flat rate after 7 p.m. or something). 

Collected my ticket at the box office, went in, and.... 

I thought it's a nice space. Unless you have a giraffe sitting in front of you, the view of the stage is unobstructed from wherever you're sitting. Seats were also comfy because they were still new, haha. 

When I bought a ticket a few days before, I noticed that there were PLENTY of seats left available. So I was kinda of surprised to see so many people in attendance. I wondered how many of these people were comped tickets.  

Figured that the show didn't sell out (500 seater a bit hard to fill) when the organisers were getting people to move further and further up, to which I wasn't going to complain about. And the show started around 9.10 p.m., which made me feel better about getting there after 8 p.m. despite the rain and rush hour traffic. 

I didn't really know any of the foreign comics beforehand, so I went in blind. Prakash Daniel was host, whom I've always found to be pretty funny and so did most of the crowd.  

Aaron Chen (I thought) had a bit of a rough night cos it was pretty quiet for most of his set. I thought he kinda bombed, between his material and delivery. 

Mel Buttle got more laughs because her set was about dogs - not just her own, but also general observations about them. 

To make things interesting, Shamaine Othman strutted her usual material (I say usual because I've heard it a few times now over the years, but it still made me laugh all the same) before Prakash brought on the last act Guy Montgomery, who kinda looked like Josh Meyers (from where I was sitting) but with a Kiwi accent.

There's one more show tonight. I wouldn't really worry about not being able to get tickets...