After a very interesting phone-call directing Pippi through the streets of the city, and all the way out to the SE suburbs we were ready to turn right round again and head back to the city. We donned our citiest faces and headed for the train station. I was so excited to be spending the day with Pippi as she now lived around 6 hours away from me. As we sat at the train station picking on the way kids act to try to big note themselves, I realised this was the kind of friend ship that a coupla hundred kilometeres was not going to squish quickly. An hour later we were in the city and without any hesitation, or need for communication, we headed for the one thing that had cemented our relationship all those years ago... Starbucks. We then got the rest of our Capitalism on, visiting Typo, Borders and anywhere selling boots. After pretending to get lost for a little while, taking some fake photos to completely consolidate our tourist style looks, and admiring the creativity of the pub named the Fluid Oz, we were on our way to the comics lounge to redeem my awesome 30th birthday gift from Pudge.
We arrived with plenty of time to get our drink on. I on the fruit tingles and Pippi on the Coronas. We ate and talked and waited with anticipation for the giggles to begin. I don't want to retell the whole night, but it was quite funny. Tom Seigert MCed. I could take him or leave him. Then to start the show off they brought in a ring-in: Gabriel Rossi - who was doing a few songs from his show "Melbourne the Musical". They were very funny and it was interesting to watch the different ways Pippi and I laughed at the different regions of Melbourne. We both laughed at the Northern Suburbs in unison. While I laughed at the Western Suburbs, she laughed with the Western suburbs, and vice versa for the Eastern side. Had Pippi stayed in town I definitely would have seen that show the next night. Then were the two headliners.
Bob Franklin was his ever gorgeous (yet slightly older looking) self with his little witty comments and things so obvious that people weren't expecting them. Pippi and I both pissed ourselves laughing at the ego joke, and in retrospect it's not even that funny. I love him from the days of Jimeoin and Bob's Cooking Show, and of course The Librarians
Dave Callan was next. He had a very similar sense of humour. His final act was pretty funny. But here's a taste of his stand up if you've never seen him.
THEN... Just as things were rapping up they introduce two guys from USA who are headed back the next day and just wanted to pop in. They ended up talking for just as long as Dave and Bob. Unfortunately I can't remeber the first guy's name. Because he was completely blown out of the water by Gabriel Iglesias. I'm not even going to retell any of it, because I know that when you click the link you will be stuck on YouTube for hours!
Needless to say Pippi and I had an awesome time and after realising that our tram had another half an hour before leaving we decided to head back up to the bar for a few more drinks to keep us warm on our trip. An hour or two later we were seriously weighing up whether to go out to a few other clubs with some people from the bar or catch the last train home. We left it to fete. Stumbling out of the Comedy Club we jumped on the first tram which actually took us to Flinders. We wandered around flinders getting lost down all the sections that were now closed for the night, took our time in the toilets, and still managed to get on that last train home. But it didn't matter that we hadn't continued on. We had enjoyed ourselves so much.
I just wish I could draw a picture of how much my stomach and jaw hurt from all the smiling that day.
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