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Joker to Byrne punters By NOEL MURPHY
ALL WHITE: Jason Byrne plays GPAC for laughs this Saturday.
IT’S AN old rule when going out to watch a comedian perform on stage: don’t park too close to the front. It’s best typified in the Les Patterson experience where anyone who gets too close to the dishevelled Barry Humphries character is virtually assured of ending up covered in water, spittle or something else unsavoury and that’s if they’re lucky. Irish comic Jason Byrne, headed Geelong’s way this weekend, is a little less likely to smother audience members in bodily fluids but anyone who doesn’t fancy being hauled on stage and lampooned mercilessly should park themselves a little further back in the crowd. This year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival featured Byrne hauling one hapless Geelong mug up on stage and haranging him with with several other suckers in tow in what can only be described as hilarious fashion. The first copped a pasting over the pronunciation of his home town, Ballina, the third a withering denunciation of his Keilor as Kilo and Geelong’s Shane a ragging for his anal-like certainty of travel times. Asked Byrne: “Where you from Shane?” Shane: “Geelong.” Byrne: “Is that far from here?” Shane: “An hour.” Byrne: “Exactly?” Shane: “Roughly.” Byrne: “Roughly?” Shane: “Fifty-seven minutes” (with a give-or-take hand wave). Byrne, stunned and glaring at audi-
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