Brisbane Comedy Festival – Stephen K Amos
Author: Lisa Lamb
 |
Stephen K Amos is an outstanding comedian, his timing and delivery are impeccable. From the moment he dances on stage impersonating Beyonce, through to stories about growing up English, impersonating Aussie accents, performing in Adelaide in a venue / church and the horrors of Coon cheese. Your jaw will ache from laughing.
Amos’s new show is all about “Finding the Funny” in everyday life, seeking out the similarities between all people and making us laugh about them. His audience participation is second to none. Each night Amos selects someone to count how many laughs he can garner from his audience, setting new records each night. He has numerous comedy awards including Best International Comedy Award at the 2007 NZ Comedy Festival, Best Stand-Up at the |
2004 Time Out Live Awards and a nomination for the Richard Pryor Award in 2004.
He dreams of hosting his own show, one day when Lenny Henry dies. So far he has hosted Penis Envy (2007), a documentary for Virgin TV Britain, in which he explored men’s ongoing insecurities with penis size with the help of actors from Puppetry of the Penis, naked rugby players and the men willing to experiment with apparent penis enlarging ‘treatments’. Watch out for that one on SBS.
Amos had been doing stand up comedy for nine years before telling his father he dropped out of law. When he told this story in Brisbane a foolish woman heckled him. Amos spent the next twenty minutes turning the entire audience against her, in a very Aussie way with a beer in his hand. I have never seen a heckler so shut down, it was a comedy triumph. He is incredibly suave, with a wonderful philosophy for the youth culture, “We screwed up the world so you don’t have to”.
Stephen K Amos wants to get connected, sharing with you his deliciously personal and extremely funny stand-up, he is supremely warm and wickedly funny. Grab a ticket quick before it sells out and see what all the fuss is about!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Forum Theatre
April 1st -19th
Author: Lisa Lamb