Charlie Hides!... and fisting 101 in Adventures in paradise

Well that was interesting, I guess.

If it weren’t for Charlie Hides, the whole thing would have sucked. I say that because I thought I was only seeing Charlie Hides, but turns out it was a full ‘Brisbane Pride Comedy Gala’ which Charlie Hides was a part of, among a heap of other acts, most of whom were tragic as fuck.

First up was some ‘Ukelele Sisters’ who were dressed up as nuns and made crude jokes here and there. People laughed, and they entertained I guess but it wasn’t mind-crackingly funny or anything.

Then some weird dancer came out and a few other acts, then thankfully Charlie Hides came out, first dressed up as Joan Rivers.
The jokes flew quick and fast and he had pretty much everyone either laughing or gaping in disbelief. I think he managed to offend the audience in the first 20 seconds.

Then some more acts performed, including a comedian who wasn’t really funny at all, just some gay guy in heels, then the next act was 5 of Brisbane’s known drag queens who did a very strange rendition of The Wizard Of Oz. They lip-synced and danced and played up the the whole thing, and it was entertaining enough but not really funny. More amusing than anything.

Charlie came out again as Cher and there were some technical difficulities where the screen froze behind him, but he handled it brilliantly. He just threw in jokes to the people behind the scenes and when they fixed up the problem, he carried on. He repeated a lot of the jokes I’d seen at his show last year in Sydney, but comedians do that. I hadn’t seen him as Joan Rivers live before, so that was cool enough for me.

Then there were more weird-ass acts I didn’t really get and the show ended with Charlie Hides coming out as his own character, Laquisha Jonez and that was pretty funny.
I was a bit down that he didn’t do Madonna live, as that’s who I wanted Steve to see in the first place, but hey.

Afterwards, Carly and her brother went home, then Steve, his friend Matt, and myself all went to ‘Bitter Suite’ for some food. It was really nice! Quite liked that place.
Our conversation turned interesting when Steve asked Matt what he was doing tomorrow, and Matt said that he was attending a fisting workshop. We thought he was joking, but he’s totally legit. So we chatted about that for ages. Steve said he’ll go along but only if the models are really hot, so Matt has to message him if they are.

Hilarious. Who knew my city offered fisting 101 lessons. I told the boys, “I really live under a rock! Who knew this existed?”
Matt (who I’d only just met that night, as Steve brought him along for the spare ticket I had) said lived under a rock also but decided to go check this out for a bit of fun.
Steve was like, “What do I tell the girls at work when they ask what I did on the weekend?”
Matt says, “Just tell them you saw a comedy show....”
Steve adds, “…And then learned fisting etiquette.”

Apparently it’s a ticketed event at $10 a ticket and the workshop goes for three hours. It sold out last year.

It alarms me that so many people are INTO this haha.