Time Out Kuala Lumpur have these weekly Comedy nights called 'Sick And Twisted' and I am off to one of them as this week's is in the MAP theatre just underneath where I live.
I meet up with Charles at about 7.30 and after getting something to eat in EAT, we queue up for the
tickets – ridiculously (but not very surprisingly) they haven’t got a system and there’s chaos – you have
to go to a desk, find your name on the list and they give you a Time Out
sticker to wear. All in the name of not issuing tickets and saving the environment or something.
There’s people everywhere trying to get their stickers and buy additional tickets,
but they’ve sold out etc, and there is this one woman who insists that the
lispy door woman hasn’t given her the Time Out sticker and it was all going to
turn nasty.
I had no idea what to expect - there was a mix of local and international comedians all being compared by this guy called Matthew Sally and it was really good actually… I did think there would be a lot of picking on the Mat Sallehs in the audience (and as we were late getting into the auditorium we had to sit near the front with
a spotlight shining on my head…), but there wasn’t.
The line up included Phoon Chi Ho, Joe Christin (very weird humour, but funny), Steve Northcott, Patrick Teow (a local radio celebrity who was incredibly funny and was my favourite). The final one, Hishamuddin Rais, went on for a bit too long though (people were walking out as it was gone midnight, and my arse was
hurting from sitting down too long…) and tended to give all his punchlines in Malay, so I didn't get most of the jokes...
If I was staying longer here, I'd go again...
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