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MEET 2016 AUSSIE COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR JACKIE LOEB IS A VERY FUNNY WOMAN. THIS CHARACTER-PLAYING COMEDY CHAMELEON FOUND HER FEET EARLY IN THE AUSTRALIAN AWARDWINNING SKETCH TV COMEDY SERIES FULL FRONTAL. LOEB HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL. SHE’S AN IMPRESSIVE CABARET SINGER AND MUSICIAN AND HAS THE KIND OF VOICE THAT EASILY HAS PEOPLE FRONTING TO SEE HER FOR THAT TALENT ALONE. In fact the other night in Sydney she did just that. ‘I did a cabaret show,’ she says, ‘ and it was really lovely doing show tunes. It was so much fun – it felt like home. It’s where I started. I have this beautiful piano player and when I sing I feel like I really do shine. Being funny when you are a singer is a bonus!’ And man, Loeb is funny. I’m interviewing her but she’s arguing with herself. There’s barely an answer that she gives that she doesn’t heckle. This is how she thinks: the comedian brain constantly pulling the rug out of anything the straight-talking business, Jackie says. Jackie tells me she’s a bit of a closet inventor, except unfortunately she has a habit of inventing things that are either already invented or outside the field of her expertise. Like a desalinating water bottle. Perfect if you’re on a cruise and you get shipwrecked or lost at sea. ‘The only problem is that I don’t know anything about desalination. But I have bought a lot of water bottles,’ say Jackie. For the past seven years Loeb has been living between Australia and LA, living the
comedian’s dream of forging a career in America. It’s been a long-held dream of Jackie’s to find herself a part in a sit-com, and after years of slogging away, going to auditions, doing workshops, and living the full-swing LA life, she’s had a few wins. ‘Normally I would whinge and moan, which makes better comedy,’ laughs Jackie, ‘but I am happy and in a good head space; I have a new agent; I have booked two acting jobs; and earlier this year I had a role in a show called Superstore. Then I got booked for a film that will shoot next year. I am going back to LA with enthusiasm!’ first 20 years I really had nothing to talk about! I am amazed I had anything to talk about at all! I feel like it’s only now that I am tapping into the good stuff. I talk more about my sexuality, which I never used to talk about, and I was really ambiguous about it; it’s not even exciting now.’
Being an actor/comedian in LA is a slog. ‘The novelty factor is zero,’ laughs Jackie. ’There are just so many more people out there wanting to do what I am doing!’
for Best Comedian. Being incredibly selfdeprecating and modest Jackie thought it was a joke, and they were going to give the award to someone else. They weren’t. It was hers.
Fortunately Jackie is good. Really, really good. She seamlessly moves between standup and song, weaving her comedy into all the hard-toreach places. She has a special gift for comedic song, and self-deprecation is her gold. Just last year Jackie was recognised with the Mo Award
Although she started out more than two decades ago (something that appalls her!) she says that now she really thinks she has the stuff Loeb is in a relationship with a woman, to talk about that she never had before. something she describes by saying, ‘Being middle aged I had a revelation that the
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