# Best Of | Funny People: Jimeoin & Mel Bracewell

An episode of [The Joel Creasey Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1892211318), 1 Oct 2026, 18 min.

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We call upon a few of Joel's funny friends to find out what stand up comedy is really like! Jimeoin tell us what tricks he's got up his sleeve to get the most out of his performances, whilst Mel Bracewell reveals the unconventional way she found herself on the stage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Get ready. Yes!
[0:02] Speaker 2: It's Joel Creasy.
[0:04] Speaker 1: Joel Creasy! With the Joel Creasy Show.
[0:14] Speaker 3: Welcome to the Joel Creasy Show, a funny people edition.
[0:17] Speaker 4: I love when I get the chance to chat to
[0:21] Speaker 4: comics in the studio because that is my, I was
[0:25] Speaker 4: going to say where my training comes from. I don't
[0:27] Speaker 4: think comics we train, but that is my bread and
[0:28] Speaker 4: butter and how I got into this biz and how
[0:31] Speaker 4: you ended up with me in your ear holes and
[0:34] Speaker 4: on this edition I am joined by two uh two
[0:37] Speaker 4: people that I have I have known for quite some
[0:39] Speaker 4: time and not super well but we've uh worked together
[0:43] Speaker 4: a fair bit and but that's kind of where it's
[0:45] Speaker 4: um it's in so it was nice to actually have
[0:47] Speaker 4: them in the studio and get a chance to chat
[0:49] Speaker 4: outside of backstage at a comedy club where everyone's sort
[0:51] Speaker 4: of you know like rolling their eyes or checking their
[0:53] Speaker 4: checking the time to see when they'll be taking to
[0:55] Speaker 4: the stage up first is Jim Owen who actually I
[0:57] Speaker 4: first met when I was putting a jacket on backstage
[1:00] Speaker 4: at a gig I'd finished, he was about to go on,
[1:02] Speaker 4: and I accidentally punched him in the face as I
[1:04] Speaker 4: was putting.
[1:04] Speaker 3: My arm through the hole.
[1:06] Speaker 4: So it was lovely to get him into the studio
[1:08] Speaker 4: and apologise, and he just dazzled me with some brilliant stories.
[1:12] Speaker 3: Here's Jim Owen. This is The Joel Creasy Show.
[1:16] Speaker 4: Comedy legend Jim Owen is here. Hey, I just want
[1:19] Speaker 4: to point out that I have read your full press
[1:21] Speaker 4: release because at the end.
[1:22] Speaker 1: I got a press release! You have.
[1:24] Speaker 4: Jim Owen says, does anyone ever read these things anyway?
[1:27] Speaker 4: I'm sure they don't. If you got this far, then
[1:29] Speaker 4: well done you.
[1:31] Speaker 1: Yeah, well done you. You probably went to the last line.
[1:34] Speaker 1: You haven't read it at all.
[1:35] Speaker 4: Yeah, let me just have a look at the other. No,
[1:36] Speaker 4: I highlighted the Royal Variety performance.
[1:39] Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah.
[1:40] Speaker 3: What's that like to do?
[1:41] Speaker 1: Quite nerve-wracking, yeah. And long, and ridiculously long.
[1:44] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[1:46] Speaker 1: I was on after Barry Manilow, so I'm geared up. Okay.
[1:49] Speaker 1: And at the end of his bit, which was a
[1:51] Speaker 1: medley of all his big hits– He just does this
[1:53] Speaker 1: little skip to the front of the stage and goes,
[1:56] Speaker 1: I'm going to have to do that again. This is
[2:00] Speaker 1: like maybe two hours, 45 minutes into it. And everyone went, oh, God.
[2:06] Speaker 1: But it went really well. And if you looked at
[2:08] Speaker 1: that bill, you would think there's way too many comics
[2:11] Speaker 1: because every time there's this, there's 10 comics. So every
[2:14] Speaker 1: time there's a number of comics, but the idea for
[2:17] Speaker 1: the comics, Is that they go down stage and the
[2:21] Speaker 1: back curtain comes in.
[2:22] Speaker 3: Right, okay.
[2:22] Speaker 1: And they strike.
[2:24] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[2:25] Speaker 1: Barry Manilow. I hope they strike him hard.
[2:27] Speaker 3: Strike Barry Manilow, please.
[2:29] Speaker 1: And then I could hear all the banging going on
[2:30] Speaker 1: behind me.
[2:31] Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
[2:31] Speaker 1: And then the curtain comes up and it's singing in
[2:33] Speaker 1: the rain. With the full, you know, the full water
[2:38] Speaker 1: coming down. But, yeah, nice experience. Yeah, you know. It
[2:43] Speaker 1: used to be a kingmaker, that show. Like, if you
[2:45] Speaker 1: got on that show.
[2:46] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[2:46] Speaker 1: And you did well, that would launch your career. But,
[2:50] Speaker 1: you know, those shows just don't. Like Apollo, Live at
[2:54] Speaker 1: the Apollo, that used to be a kingmaker. I know.
[2:56] Speaker 1: They've axed that now.
[2:58] Speaker 3: That's like as of very recently.
[2:59] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[3:00] Speaker 3: That was always on my dream list to do. I
[3:03] Speaker 3: never got to do it. I was so bummed when
[3:04] Speaker 3: I saw that.
[3:04] Speaker 1: When did you do it? I did it three times.
[3:08] Speaker 3: What royal was that, the royal variety performance you did?
[3:10] Speaker 1: It wasn't even a good one.
[3:12] Speaker 3: I was going to say.
[3:12] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[3:13] Speaker 1: Prince Andrew. No! No, it wasn't him. Petty. It was
[3:26] Speaker 1: Prince Anne.
[3:27] Speaker 3: Oh, well, she goes to everything. She's the busiest royal.
[3:30] Speaker 3: I mean, yeah. I've watched that documentary, The Crown. I
[3:33] Speaker 3: seem to quite like Anne.
[3:34] Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
[3:36] Speaker 4: Do you get any restrictions on what you can say
[3:38] Speaker 4: at the Royal Variety? Are you allowed to swear?
[3:41] Speaker 5: No.
[3:42] Speaker 1: No, we can't swear. No. And you have to nod, actually.
[3:47] Speaker 1: You have to do that little curtsy to the queen
[3:50] Speaker 1: or the member of the royal family.
[3:52] Speaker 3: Do you bow or curtsy?
[3:54] Speaker 1: You just have to do a little acknowledgement. What?
[4:00] Speaker 3: What did you think?
[4:01] Speaker 1: I can see you.
[4:02] Speaker 3: Singing the rain's coming up.
[4:04] Speaker 1: Don't worry. They're here.
[4:06] Speaker 4: I remember the first time we met. We were doing,
[4:08] Speaker 4: and I mentioned this to you when I saw you
[4:10] Speaker 4: the other night, and I'm so glad you'd forgotten. We
[4:14] Speaker 4: were doing one of those gigs just before like a
[4:16] Speaker 4: comedy festival gala and everyone was on sort of trying
[4:19] Speaker 4: out the material. And I had just finished and you
[4:22] Speaker 4: just arrived and I was putting on my jacket backstage
[4:25] Speaker 4: and I was putting my arm through and you were
[4:27] Speaker 4: just behind me and I fully punched you in the face.
[4:30] Speaker 4: And I was quite early on in comedy. I was like,
[4:32] Speaker 4: oh my God, I've just punched Jim Owen in the face.
[4:33] Speaker 4: And we've never met before.
[4:36] Speaker 1: Did you go to Edinburgh one year?
[4:38] Speaker 3: I've done it once.
[4:39] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[4:40] Speaker 3: And I hated it.
[4:41] Speaker 1: Was it with Joan Rivers? I remember you supported Joan Rivers.
[4:46] Speaker 5: I went.
[4:46] Speaker 1: And she was there.
[4:47] Speaker 3: I went the year after she passed. Or the year
[4:50] Speaker 3: she did pass.
[4:52] Speaker 1: Right.
[4:52] Speaker 3: Yeah, because I was with her for a few years.
[4:55] Speaker 1: Right.
[4:55] Speaker 4: The comedy hack she taught me, even at 81 when
[4:57] Speaker 4: I was working with her, she'd be on her hands
[4:59] Speaker 4: and knees. with black cardboard and a white pen, and
[5:02] Speaker 4: she'd write her set list out big on that, and
[5:05] Speaker 4: then you'd lie on the stage, which is also black,
[5:08] Speaker 4: and then no one can see it.
[5:09] Speaker 3: You could just see the white writing.
[5:10] Speaker 1: Oh, that's nice.
[5:11] Speaker 3: I still do that one.
[5:12] Speaker 1: I've done chalk on the stage. When I went to Edinburgh,
[5:15] Speaker 1: I did just white chalk.
[5:17] Speaker 3: That's smart.
[5:18] Speaker 1: And, you know... different person said I know I have
[5:21] Speaker 1: to move over here.
[5:23] Speaker 3: If I want to know how you lot going yeah because.
[5:27] Speaker 4: There's nothing more obvious than when you've got on your
[5:28] Speaker 4: stool and you're like taking a long sip of water
[5:30] Speaker 4: and you're like hang on no I'm just taking a
[5:31] Speaker 4: really long sip that's how I drink water because you
[5:36] Speaker 4: do something that I cannot do but I admire in
[5:39] Speaker 4: other comedians you do proper observational comedy how do you
[5:44] Speaker 4: do that because I cannot do that I always think
[5:48] Speaker 4: oh that's funny.
[5:49] Speaker 1: You know, I used to do it more, but I
[5:50] Speaker 1: started scrolling on my phone. And scrolling just destroys creativity,
[5:55] Speaker 1: I think. You know, you're in a zone. But I
[5:58] Speaker 1: used to find that if I sat long enough... If
[6:01] Speaker 1: you go looking for a joke, they just don't turn up.
[6:04] Speaker 3: Nah.
[6:05] Speaker 1: If you find that you're watching something, and then you... Like,
[6:07] Speaker 1: you're the first person to see the joke. You don't
[6:09] Speaker 1: write the joke. You go... A thought comes in, you go, Oh, yeah.
[6:15] Speaker 1: So it kind of lets it happen. And then when
[6:18] Speaker 1: you find yourself laughing at something, you go, right, what
[6:21] Speaker 1: is it that I'm laughing at? And can I convey that?
[6:24] Speaker 1: And the best ones are the things that are right
[6:27] Speaker 1: in front of you. 100%. That are there, you know,
[6:30] Speaker 1: and if no one else is talking about it, then
[6:32] Speaker 1: you feel, you know, not only is it a good joke,
[6:35] Speaker 1: but it's a unique topic.
[6:37] Speaker 4: That's why I admire observational comedy because it's so far
[6:39] Speaker 4: from what I do, but I love that sort of
[6:41] Speaker 4: watching comedy where, you can nudge your friend and be like, oh,
[6:44] Speaker 4: we do that.
[6:44] Speaker 3: It's just the most pure form of comedy, I think.
[6:46] Speaker 1: Well, the worst one for me is when I've got
[6:48] Speaker 1: something about it and I'm like, that's not going to work.
[6:50] Speaker 1: They're not going to get that. And then someone else
[6:52] Speaker 1: does it and you're like, oh, my God.
[6:54] Speaker 3: I've been thinking about that forever.
[6:57] Speaker 1: I've been sitting on that. Oh, you idiot. Yeah.
[7:00] Speaker 4: I've overthought that one. Because you, like, you are, like,
[7:04] Speaker 4: always on the right. I mean, you've got shows coming up. Noosa,
[7:05] Speaker 4: Byron Bay, Sutherland, Boweral, Goulburn, Chuka and Shepparton.
[7:11] Speaker 1: And then I go to the UK for five weeks.
[7:13] Speaker 1: And I can do 90 gigs. And then if I
[7:15] Speaker 1: go above that, I move into a different tax bracket.
[7:18] Speaker 3: Do people watch me?
[7:20] Speaker 1: How many gigs? I can quite simply say 90. I've
[7:23] Speaker 1: worked it out.
[7:24] Speaker 4: Did you have a link to Prince as well?
[7:28] Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I worked at concerts in London and played
[7:33] Speaker 1: Wembley six nights in a row. And I worked at
[7:35] Speaker 1: every one of them. Really? In the mosh pit.
[7:39] Speaker 3: What were you doing in the mosque?
[7:40] Speaker 5: It worked.
[7:40] Speaker 1: Well, I was doing security, you know. Oh, you were
[7:43] Speaker 1: doing security. Well, you know, you showed people their seats
[7:48] Speaker 1: and then you just moved into that area. Yeah.
[7:50] Speaker 5: Cool.
[7:51] Speaker 1: And it was like a religious experience. Yeah. Like, I
[7:55] Speaker 1: really didn't think that much of Prince because the British
[7:58] Speaker 1: press had mocked him. Mm-hmm. But when he, he could dance, like,
[8:02] Speaker 1: he could, he was such an amazing dancer.
[8:05] Speaker 5: Mm.
[8:05] Speaker 1: And then he did the sound check, so. He'd get
[8:07] Speaker 1: on the drums and someone started, do Raspberry Berets. And he'd...
[8:13] Speaker 1: Take a look, Wes. Working part-time in a Bible stand.
[8:18] Speaker 1: Boss was... And then over to the keyboard.
[8:23] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[8:24] Speaker 1: Anybody want to hear? And he just did all these
[8:27] Speaker 1: songs and then did the sound check. That's so cool.
[8:30] Speaker 1: And then did the show. And that's the best concert
[8:33] Speaker 1: I've ever been to.
[8:34] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[8:35] Speaker 3: Yeah, and you saw it six times.
[8:36] Speaker 1: Six times in a row.
[8:37] Speaker 4: Because I always think when I've got, like, someone doing my,
[8:39] Speaker 4: you know, sound and stuff for a show that I'm
[8:42] Speaker 4: doing for weeks on end, that poor person. Yeah, yeah.
[8:44] Speaker 3: I've seen this every night. And when I hear, if
[8:47] Speaker 3: someone says, oh, your tech was laughing, that's the highest compliment.
[8:51] Speaker 1: You know, when I go and see a show, I
[8:53] Speaker 1: always look over at the tech to see.
[8:54] Speaker 3: It's the giveaway, isn't it?
[8:55] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[8:56] Speaker 3: If they're on their phone.
[8:57] Speaker 1: To see how much ad-libbing or how chaotic the show is. Yeah.
[9:00] Speaker 3: Have you ever had any horror corporates? Do you do corporates?
[9:02] Speaker 1: Yeah. Any horror ones? Oh, yeah.
[9:04] Speaker 3: Oh, God.
[9:05] Speaker 1: I got one for the Port Melbourne Cricket Club. Great.
[9:08] Speaker 1: And I absolutely died. I did my first joke, which
[9:13] Speaker 1: is always your best joke. Yeah. And it died. Oh, no.
[9:15] Speaker 1: And then I did my last joke, which is always
[9:17] Speaker 1: your second best joke.
[9:18] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[9:19] Speaker 1: Because you want to finish on a laugh. That died.
[9:21] Speaker 1: That died. And then I thought, I'm in trouble here.
[9:25] Speaker 1: Then I did Bob's act. I did Bob Franklin's act.
[9:32] Speaker 1: And this guy kept walking. I had to tell Bob
[9:34] Speaker 1: the next day that he had died in his ass.
[9:37] Speaker 3: And he doesn't get the pay either.
[9:40] Speaker 1: They didn't want to pay me either.
[9:41] Speaker 5: What?
[9:41] Speaker 1: That was the other thing.
[9:42] Speaker 3: Wait, they were paying you and then after they said.
[9:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they wouldn't pay you. But I had nowhere
[9:47] Speaker 1: to go. There was no backstage. I went into the toilets.
[9:50] Speaker 1: And then everyone that was just, they're going to the
[9:53] Speaker 1: toilet and they're going, geez. And then they see me
[9:57] Speaker 1: sitting there. That is so brutal.
[10:09] Speaker 4: Jim Owen, you're an absolute legend. Thank you so much
[10:11] Speaker 4: for coming in. I so appreciate it.
[10:13] Speaker 1: I hope we didn't talk too much about comedy that
[10:15] Speaker 1: we talked to.
[10:16] Speaker 3: It's fascinating. We spoke about Prince.
[10:18] Speaker 1: Yeah, and Queen, the royal family. Prince, Queen, the royal family.
[10:23] Speaker 3: We covered it. Thank you so much.
[10:25] Speaker 1: Thank you, Joel.
[10:27] Speaker 3: The Joel Creasy Show.
[10:29] Speaker 4: That was the one-named celebrity, Jim Owen. And next up
[10:32] Speaker 4: is the, she's got two names, but we shortened the
[10:34] Speaker 4: first one. It's Mel Bracewell, who you may know from
[10:37] Speaker 4: The Cheap Seats. And thank God you're here. A bunch
[10:39] Speaker 4: of shows. She hails from New Zealand, but lives here
[10:42] Speaker 4: in Melbourne now. and is just absolutely dominating. We have
[10:46] Speaker 4: been venue buddies for many years at the Melbourne International
[10:49] Speaker 4: Comedy Festival, and she's always handy to have around because
[10:52] Speaker 4: she brings a ring light backstage, which I truly appreciate.
[10:55] Speaker 4: Please enjoy my chat with the very funny Mel Bracewell.
[10:59] Speaker 3: Yes, Jessica.
[11:02] Speaker 4: Melanie Bracewell, I've missed you so very much.
[11:06] Speaker 5: Hello. Is that because I didn't turn up yesterday when
[11:08] Speaker 5: we were supposed to do this interview? I'm just imagining
[11:11] Speaker 5: you sitting here, just waiting. There's like a little sign
[11:14] Speaker 5: with my name on it on the seat.
[11:17] Speaker 1: Where is she?
[11:18] Speaker 2: She stood me up.
[11:19] Speaker 3: She said she'd be here. I was dilly-dallying.
[11:21] Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
[11:22] Speaker 1: Wow.
[11:23] Speaker 2: That's actually, yeah, it was all a promotional stunt for
[11:25] Speaker 2: my show.
[11:25] Speaker 1: It's incredible.
[11:26] Speaker 4: You can grab tickets for Melanie Brace. I was dilly-dallying
[11:28] Speaker 4: to her at livenation.com.au. Mel, thanks for coming in.
[11:31] Speaker 2: It's amazing. The plug's right at the top.
[11:33] Speaker 5: You're supposed to earn your way and just say, come
[11:36] Speaker 5: see me live.
[11:37] Speaker 2: But it's like, no, no, I'll just tell you and go.
[11:39] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[11:40] Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be the dream?
[11:41] Speaker 2: Yeah. Just come or don't. Like either you know me
[11:44] Speaker 2: or you don't, whatever. I hate self-promoting. It is so hard.
[11:48] Speaker 4: Let me do it for you because I have, bizarrely,
[11:51] Speaker 4: I reckon I've seen you almost more than I've seen
[11:54] Speaker 4: most comedians because- For about three years, you and I
[11:57] Speaker 4: have been venue buddies at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
[12:00] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[12:01] Speaker 4: And I've been on after you, so I've caught the
[12:03] Speaker 4: last 20 minutes of your show most nights.
[12:05] Speaker 3: So many times.
[12:05] Speaker 2: All the callbacks that will make no sense to you.
[12:09] Speaker 4: Yeah, I did have to end up coming like a
[12:11] Speaker 4: week in. I was like, I need to see it
[12:12] Speaker 4: from the start so this makes sense.
[12:14] Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. You watch it in like memento style. Like
[12:16] Speaker 5: it all just makes sense.
[12:19] Speaker 4: But I missed you. I didn't do this year and
[12:21] Speaker 4: I missed you. So I was like, I must summon
[12:24] Speaker 4: her in.
[12:25] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[12:25] Speaker 3: And catch up in the studio.
[12:26] Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
[12:28] Speaker 2: This is such a cool setup.
[12:29] Speaker 5: I love it.
[12:29] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, you've not been in here.
[12:30] Speaker 2: I've not been in here. This is your little room.
[12:32] Speaker 3: How many seasons of Cheap Seats is it now?
[12:34] Speaker 5: Six seasons, which is so insane. We just, we didn't
[12:38] Speaker 5: think we were going to get six episodes.
[12:40] Speaker 3: It's so bright. It's so funny. I watched the, my friends,
[12:45] Speaker 3: the grannies, the granny bingo on there. That was so funny.
[12:48] Speaker 2: It was so good.
[12:49] Speaker 5: And it was funny, the feedback, because, you know, like
[12:52] Speaker 5: we're still terrestrial television and we know that some of
[12:55] Speaker 5: our viewers are like very old school and you're like,
[12:59] Speaker 5: I wonder how this is going to go down.
[13:01] Speaker 2: Then I went to the, it was like an aeroplane museum,
[13:05] Speaker 2: don't ask.
[13:06] Speaker 3: You know I love planes.
[13:07] Speaker 2: Oh, you love planes?
[13:08] Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, amazing.
[13:09] Speaker 3: I'm an aerosexual.
[13:10] Speaker 2: Oh my God, that's amazing.
[13:11] Speaker 5: I went to the Moorabbin Airport Museum and I went
[13:15] Speaker 5: there and there was this old guy and he was
[13:18] Speaker 5: trying to talk about me subtly to a woman that
[13:22] Speaker 5: worked there.
[13:22] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[13:23] Speaker 2: But she was not getting the fact that he was
[13:25] Speaker 2: trying to be subtle.
[13:25] Speaker 5: She's like, what do you mean the cheap seats? As
[13:29] Speaker 5: they're talking to each other, she's like, I've never heard
[13:31] Speaker 5: of that. And I'm like, oh, hi, sorry, you talking
[13:33] Speaker 5: about me?
[13:34] Speaker 3: Yeah, hey.
[13:35] Speaker 5: And this old guy, I want to say he's, I
[13:37] Speaker 5: don't want to actually say his age because if he
[13:38] Speaker 5: listens to this, he'll be like, I am not 70.
[13:40] Speaker 3: Well, is someone that age listening to that?
[13:43] Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe not.
[13:44] Speaker 5: And he was like, oh, I just want to say
[13:47] Speaker 5: I love the show. And those two blokes being women
[13:51] Speaker 5: were hilarious.
[13:52] Speaker 2: I was like, that is amazing.
[13:55] Speaker 5: Because if you're the sort of person I would have
[13:57] Speaker 5: thought would have.
[13:58] Speaker 2: Been like, oh, not for me.
[13:59] Speaker 3: But he adored it.
[14:01] Speaker 2: He loved it so much.
[14:02] Speaker 1: It was great.
[14:03] Speaker 3: But that's what's so nice about it.
[14:04] Speaker 4: You seem to have such autonomy on that show to
[14:07] Speaker 4: have people on that are funny and a bit left
[14:10] Speaker 4: of centre.
[14:11] Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
[14:12] Speaker 5: I think that's the thing is that Tim and I
[14:14] Speaker 5: will have a very stupid idea. And we are just
[14:17] Speaker 5: so shocked that no one says no.
[14:19] Speaker 4: My producer was telling me you started on, did you
[14:22] Speaker 4: start doing jokes on Tumblr?
[14:23] Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
[14:24] Speaker 3: You were so.
[14:25] Speaker 2: I was a Tumblr girl, eh?
[14:26] Speaker 5: You were so cool.
[14:27] Speaker 2: Melodoodle on Tumblr.
[14:29] Speaker 3: Yeah, Melodoodle. Is that one of your handles somewhere else?
[14:32] Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on like Twitter and I just, yeah, that's
[14:34] Speaker 5: sort of what my handle was on a lot of things.
[14:37] Speaker 2: For a while.
[14:37] Speaker 3: How does one do comedy on Tumblr?
[14:40] Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
[14:41] Speaker 5: I didn't realize when I started Tumblr, I just started
[14:44] Speaker 5: because all of the like girls were on Tumblr and
[14:46] Speaker 5: I thought that that was the.
[14:47] Speaker 2: Cool thing to do.
[14:48] Speaker 5: And like my, if you were to look at my
[14:50] Speaker 5: first post on Tumblr, it was like flowers and like,
[14:52] Speaker 5: and you know, like a girl, like a girl's shadow
[14:54] Speaker 5: in a window, you know, like it's just, it was
[14:57] Speaker 5: like silhouettes. It was like a blurry photo of a
[15:00] Speaker 5: girl in like a meadow. And like, that was kind of,
[15:04] Speaker 5: I don't, I honestly don't know. I just thought that's
[15:07] Speaker 5: just what it was. And I was like, oh, this
[15:08] Speaker 5: photo is kind of cool. And then I just sort
[15:12] Speaker 5: of just through following more people was like, oh, people
[15:14] Speaker 5: just like post jokes on here as well. And I
[15:16] Speaker 5: love comedy. Like I was like huge. I just watched
[15:19] Speaker 5: a lot of it. My dad was like, watch, watch
[15:21] Speaker 5: the stand up. And I was like big into Flight
[15:23] Speaker 5: of the Conchords and Monty Python and stuff. And so
[15:27] Speaker 5: I kind of was like, this could be fun. And
[15:30] Speaker 5: I remember like my first post, I can't even remember
[15:33] Speaker 5: what it was.
[15:34] Speaker 2: Like where I actually, it actually started to go viral.
[15:37] Speaker 5: And when I say viral, when I say viral, it
[15:39] Speaker 5: got 100 reposts.
[15:42] Speaker 3: And I could not sleep.
[15:44] Speaker 2: I was like, I've made it.
[15:47] Speaker 3: And you're leaving the house and saying Sonny's in a hat.
[15:50] Speaker 3: You're like, leave me alone in a hat.
[15:51] Speaker 2: Yeah, it was mad.
[15:53] Speaker 3: Any of those people that were following you from the
[15:54] Speaker 3: time of the day still like coming to your show?
[15:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so surreal.
[15:58] Speaker 5: Yeah. And like even in like England, like I would
[16:01] Speaker 5: go to a show in London and people would be like, oh,
[16:03] Speaker 5: I followed Maladoodle and I just wanted to see like
[16:05] Speaker 5: what you're up to now.
[16:06] Speaker 2: That's so sweet.
[16:07] Speaker 5: Yeah. It wasn't like I was like huge, but I
[16:10] Speaker 5: got to like 200,000 followers on Tumblr. What? Yeah.
[16:14] Speaker 3: I'm not a Tumblr person. That's crazy.
[16:17] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[16:17] Speaker 5: Some things just like went nuts and like they don't
[16:20] Speaker 5: even really make sense. Like one post that I had
[16:22] Speaker 5: like that got like a million likes was just my
[16:25] Speaker 5: dad accidentally called me dad once.
[16:26] Speaker 2: Like that's just like all it said.
[16:28] Speaker 5: Like that was the only, like it was a piece
[16:29] Speaker 5: of text and people were like, it's a funny thing
[16:33] Speaker 5: to think about.
[16:34] Speaker 1: What's he like?
[16:36] Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And so, but then when in your core
[16:39] Speaker 3: did you know I'm going to do this on stage?
[16:41] Speaker 2: Probably after I did it like three or four times. Oh, really?
[16:45] Speaker 3: It wasn't bubbling away for a few years?
[16:46] Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like one.
[16:47] Speaker 5: Of those things where like, so I entered this competition
[16:50] Speaker 5: in New Zealand that was to get on a show
[16:52] Speaker 5: that was like equivalent of Have You Been Paying Attention.
[16:54] Speaker 2: Part of that.
[16:55] Speaker 5: Competition, you got to win a corporate event for McDonald's.
[16:59] Speaker 5: I was like, well, I have never done stand-up before.
[17:01] Speaker 3: What a way to start.
[17:01] Speaker 5: And so I got booked for this corporate and I
[17:03] Speaker 5: was like, I've never done this. So I booked myself
[17:05] Speaker 5: in for an open mic and did six minutes and
[17:07] Speaker 5: it went so great. It's like, I don't know, like
[17:09] Speaker 5: as if I got scouted on the street to be
[17:11] Speaker 5: a model or something.
[17:12] Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, I better, like, I don't know.
[17:13] Speaker 3: Better do a runway.
[17:14] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And so.
[17:17] Speaker 5: I did the six minutes and I was like, I'm
[17:19] Speaker 5: great because I was the only person on the lineup
[17:21] Speaker 5: who didn't have notes because I didn't realize you were
[17:23] Speaker 5: allowed to have notes.
[17:24] Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
[17:25] Speaker 2: I was like, oh, wow.
[17:26] Speaker 5: Like people thought I was better than I was because
[17:29] Speaker 5: I wasn't reading anything.
[17:30] Speaker 3: I was just doing it.
[17:31] Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And so then I was like, well, I'll
[17:34] Speaker 2: just do this exact six minutes at the corporate. And
[17:36] Speaker 2: it was awful.
[17:37] Speaker 3: It was so bad.
[17:39] Speaker 5: I just could not compute that I could say the
[17:41] Speaker 5: exact same words again.
[17:43] Speaker 2: And they would just not be funny the second time.
[17:44] Speaker 3: It's weird, isn't it?
[17:45] Speaker 2: It didn't make sense to me.
[17:46] Speaker 5: And I would like have like rhetorical questions that they
[17:50] Speaker 5: would answer. Like I was so thrown by it. It's like, like, like,
[17:54] Speaker 5: you know, you'd be like, don't you think it's crazy
[17:55] Speaker 5: how blah, blah, blah. And then someone would be like, oh,
[17:58] Speaker 5: it's not that crazy.
[17:59] Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, no.
[18:02] Speaker 1: Oh, no.
[18:03] Speaker 5: I did not expect anyone to talk back to me.
[18:05] Speaker 5: Thank you so much for coming in.
[18:07] Speaker 3: Love you, darling. Thank you.
[18:09] Speaker 1: Oh, I love you too.
[18:12] Speaker 3: The Joel Creasy Show is done. But Joel's got plenty
[18:15] Speaker 3: more to say.
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