Astonishing! Cant-sodden Melbourne festival produces actual comedy!
In a clear case of what po-mo quackademics would call "subverting the dominant paradigm" the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has finally produced something genuinely cack-worthy.
Not intentionally, but. It's a huge unwitting gag exposing the hypocrisy of both Stalinist festival organisers and their puppets performers.
Seems that many of the alleged yuckmeisters are a tad shat off because the lights will be turned out in the Melbourne Town Hall for the meaningless ritual Earth Hour, bringing darkness to their shows. Pretty ironic when you consider that most are drearily PC lefties fond of spouting sanctimonious ferndie dogma, with many using their acts to warn of the impending apocalypse. Revealingly, their commitment swiftly crumbles when there's a possibility that the light'll go off 'em for a short while. Seems they feel that constitutes an even greater apocalypse.
How do these clowns expect Australians to reduce their greenhouse emissions by ninety bloody percent when they can't do without a spottie for sixty friggin' minutes?
What a joke. And it just goes to show that there's nothing as funny as people with no sense of humour.
