COMEDIAN Josh Thomas says his show is dauntingly called “Everything Ever”.
What exactly is “everything”?
In Thomas’ case, he says, he just stands up on stage and talks about everything that’s ever happened to him.
“It’s about my life, how dull it is, embarrassing stories, making bad choices – it all comes very naturally to me,” he says.
And when you have been doing boring things for as long as Thomas has – a whole 24 years – there are plenty of humiliations and break-ups to provide grist to the comic mill.
For instance, when at school in Queensland, Thomas was “really fat”. Even now that he knows how to dress to his 183cm height, he describes himself as “very marsh-mallowy, very soft”. He was definitely not a footballer.
As well as humiliations, Thomas has had glowing triumphs as a star of the television show “Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation”, “GQ” magazine’s Comedian of the Year in 2010 and a Logies’ nominee for Most Popular New Male Talent 2010.
As a schoolboy aged 17, before he came out as gay, Thomas was the youngest-ever winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s RAW Comedy Competition.
He fills big theatres, including our own Canberra Theatre, wherever he goes.
He’s made the finals of “So You Think You’re Funny” in Edinburgh, appeared at Smithwick’s Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Kilkenny, Ireland, and the Geel Comedy Festival in Belgium, and curated the Brisbane Comedy Festival twice.
He’s played at Sydney Opera House, toured NZ and performed at least three times in Canberra, where his sister lives.
Thomas, who speaks more like an Irishman than a Queenslander, is careful to say ridiculously flattering things about the ACT, his second-favourite place to Melbourne, where he now lives.
In all, it is obvious that Thomas has been having fun being boring all around the globe. He’s been doing stand-up comedy as long as he can remember and no, he’s not thinking of making a movie, because he probably wouldn’t be any good at it.
Comedy is his metier – “what else can I do?”
Josh Thomas is at Canberra Theatre, 7.30pm, October 29. Bookings to www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700
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