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207 Driver Avenue (fox Studios Shop), Shop 207, Driver Ave
Moore Park, NSW, 2021 -
(02) 9357 1... (02) 9357 1419
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Reviews of Comedy Store The Fox Studios
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winglee Local Star 185 reviews
Great place for a cheap, different fun night out. There's lots of parking in Fox Studios so getting there is no problem either. Been there a few times now and the comedians are always original and hilarious, well most of them anyway. Sometimes the 'green' ones need a bit more work. Seating is kind of cool too... a couple of moveable seats with a shared little table, so you can sits in groups of 2 or more, whatever suits.. And you just buzz at the table for bar staff to come to you and take your orders, even during the acts, and the staff to their credit are very efficient. Makes you feel quite spoilt! -
Nancy_B 60 reviews
Having lived in London for a few years a while back, the Comedy Store in the West End was one of my favourite places to go and being London, it attracted the best of the best comedians. While a venue like that is hard to live up to (and it is hard not to draw comparisons), I genuinely like the Comedy Store at Fox Studios. It is small enough that it feels intimate wherever you are sitting without feeling cramped. The bar area is conducive to getting cosy with a couple of drinks, before, after or during the show interval with a little bit of seating and plenty of standing room. The bar staff are pretty good too. It never seems to take long to be served even when there is a full bar. The comedy room itself consists of rows of seats broken up by little tables. Now for the great thing, the little tables have a buzzer so that you can call for a drink discretely during performances. The acts themselves are pretty much always good with the odd clanger (which are nearly as entertaining sometimes as the good acts). I was here just recently for the Evaporaid flood relief show and the camaraderie between the comedians and the staff that worked there made it a treat to be at. Every time I go I wonder why I dont think to come here more often. Drinks and food are all reasonably priced. -
pincottk 15 reviews
Jim Jeffries blazes a new path along the border between insight and insult, managing along the way to take machete swipes at nearly every group -- women, parents, Christians, Moslems, Jews, the disabled, dwarves everybody gets a turn.
Currently headlining at the Comedy Story, Jeffries is a wild explosion of brutal opinion, foul language and forbidden topics.
The ex-Perth performer, whos been touring non-stop overseas for the past eight years and swiftly rising to the top ranks of comic talent -- is obscene, crude and politically incorrect beyond the bounds of description allowed in the mainstream media.
And yet he manages to pull it off with an immensely likeable delivery that somehow slips under the audiences moral outrage radar.
Or at least it did the trick in Sydney last night, which may simply mean were a more tolerant crowd. Apparently the Aussie star has been punched onstage during a show in Manchester, and while hosting the NME Awards incurred wrath and later threats -- from Ozzie Osbournes family (and reportedly the adulation of Alice Cooper at the same time).
Jeffries material is hugely offensive, and some is guaranteed to have you cringing -- but at the same time youre guaranteed to be almost crying with laughter.
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pincottk 15 reviews
Owen O'Neill `Chasing My Tale' (supported by Eddy Brimson)
Australians are credited with usually being the first to joke about a dire situation witness the Aussie who got 1104 survivors singing the theme from Titanic in the lifeboats as they watched the cruise liner Sun Vista sink off Malaysia in 1999.
But it took an Irishman to be the first weve seen find humour in the recent bushfire horrors. And he got away with it.
Opening at the Comedy Store last night with Chasing My Tale, Owen ONeill spun material from his reaction to hearing a news broadcast about the Victorian infernos being deliberately lit and then deliciously described a proper fate for arsonists.
From theres it on to being a redhead, Irish drinking attitudes and the joys of being one of 16 children, impersonating Keith Richards and (successfully) stalking Mick Jagger, and a decent swipe at hairdressing empire Toni and Guy.
Selected from the best of his material during years as an Edinburgh Festival highlight, ONeills act is a hilarious, but gently affectionate, ramble through his life.
Less subtle and in some ways sharply funnier was the turn of support act Eddy Brimson. Deftly harvesting the audience potential and tolerance limits -- for subjects ranging from dating and marriage to airplane hijack incidents, Brimson skates as close to wafer-thin ice as anybody would dare. And then does a comedic figure-eight over the edge and back again.
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