STEPH TISDELL (AUS) - Melbourne International Comedy Festival / by Stephanie Puls

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This show “The Pyramid” was pretty hilarious in spite of poor Steph clearly being quite ill as well as some tech problems.

The audience of about 40 people (packed in way too tight but that’s not her fault!) laughed enthusiastically as Steph mined various pyramids (think the food pyramid and Maslow’s heirarchy of needs, for example) for comedy gold. She touches on the confidence of white men, time spent in Africa doing aid work and vanity on social media along the way, each bit funny enough to have her laughing along with us which was completely charming.

The heat of the room added to her obvious discomfort (she was, by her own observation, really sweaty and had a pretty croaky voice) and some tech problems with her projector/screen set up derailed things for five minutes or so but Steph handled the whole thing admirably. It speaks volumes that when the tech issues were resolved the room cheered - everyone was clearly willing her on.

This is a terrific show and well worth the $20-25 ticket price. Steph is destined for bigger and better things so get on board now while tickets are still as cheap as chips!

Get the details of Steph’s show here.