Aunty Donna Podcast - Podcast Ep 247 - Michael Hing's Sketch Ideas

Episode Date: March 23, 2021

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Get our legends, I'm Markham to another rip episode of the R&T Donner podcast. This week we have very special guest Michael Hing joining us to talk all things sketch comedy. Now Michael has a Melbourne comedy festival show that is starting this week, so I employ you all to go grab your tickets right now. Enjoy the end. Welcome to another episode of everyone's favorite podcast, the Antidonna podcast with me, your host Michael Hing. I'm joined today by three actually very special guests. Often we talk a lot about the anti-donna sketch show here, and I'm so thrilled that today we have not one, not two, but three members of the very successful anti-donna sketch group and podcast here on this podcast, Mark Bonanna, Zachary Ruayne and also Broden Kelly.

Hello, guys. Thank you so much for joining me on my podcast, Mark Bonanna, Zachary Ruayne, and also Broden Kelly. Hello, guys. Thank you so much for joining me on my podcast. Good morning, thanks for having us. Thank you, Michael. And I just wanna say I've been a long time listener of the podcast, love to hear all the anti-donor news. From your perspective, you know, obviously it's my life, it's my lived experience,

but it's really good just to hear obviously it's my life, it's my lived experience, but it's really it's really good just to hear how it's disseminating and and what the big fans like yourself have to say about all of the work. So thanks so much for the podcast and we're all big fans over at Antidon HQ. And I just want to say this is such a clever and creative twist. No Mark, don't subvert. I'm just I just wanted to say like usually when I come into the anti-dono podcast, I expect Goofy's acro-way, big muscle, Broding Kelly, Zany Mark. Mark, one second. Michael, just give a second. Mark, stop it.

Stop it, you fucking shit. What? I'm subverting. You're subverting. We're already subverting. I'm subverting. You're subverting. We're already subverting. I'm subverting the subversion. It's a... It's a... Michael Hing being the host that it's sort of like a fan news podcast and where guests is

a subversion. But you to bring it back to us, you're subverting so much it's virtually not a subversion and you're being a real prickly pair. And you're being a prick. Michael get this back on track. You're the host. Sorry, guys. Sorry, you guys, is everything okay? I just Michael, get this back on track, you're the host. Sorry, guys, sorry, sorry. Is everything okay?

I just heard some shouting from the other room. We're in fighting. It's not much, it's not my don't worry, it's nothing big, it's just, it's the words. Mark is being a big fucking cunt. And Broden and Zach are doing what you should never, what we learned not to do in acting school, which is bitchin' in the kitchen. Wow. Unbitching in the kitchen. Can I offer two things?

If I may, if I may. Number one, Mark, I think your offer of subverting this aversion, I think it's funny, I think it's great. I think it coming 45 seconds into the podcast might be a bit early and I think it might undermine a lot of the world that we were trying to build as a team as a group, right? Secondly, I think I as the host of this podcast, or something and a fan of this podcast, I need to know from you guys, is it at all weird that when we deal with some of the more personal aspects of your lives on this podcast? Because I have no effect checking that stuff, but I do love to bring up your personal lives in a gossipy kind of, you know, I'm not a user concern or an issue here, Michael.

Now that Mark's done the 45 seconds in subversion, I'm sorry, Mark, I don't want to talk too much about it, but this was the choice you made. A subversion that would have been great about 15 minutes in when we were running out of steam. You know, it would have been awesome just to like change course, we're running out of steam, but because you sort of subverted before we even got to play,

I'm like, I'm 90% sure you're in it right now when you're talking about the personal stuff that the implication there is that we're back to this concept that it's a fan podcast. Yeah. It's something I really want to play along with, but I then don't know how to fold in this extra layer of, but also it's the normal podcast. Oh, sure. So, I don't know.

What I would suggest we do is, do you all have your men in black pen? Yes. Yeah, so should we just wipe our memories from black? Not a pen. Mine's a, well, yeah. What I thought was, it doubles as a pen, I think. Oh, it does not double as a pen.

I don't give a pen. What did you get? It's a singular use Nebularizer single use so that they throw now I know the men in black were so waste. I don't think they're single use I don't think they're single use. I meant single use in the turn that it's also not a pen That's why they have them in a little plastic pouch that they rip open every time And they just leave them and everyone just keeps finding them all around the ground. All the time when I meant what I meant was it is not a pen nor is it a toothbrush as well as I mean.

The other thing about them was that like tampons they don't break down. So every neutralizer that they use is out there floating somewhere in the ocean, potentially in the Indian. Dolphin in the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah. Which is, but you'll never remember because every time you see that there's all these neutralizers in the ocean, they neutralize that. Yeah, yeah.

Well, then they're not single use, are they? Then they're multiple use ones, and they're just chucking them out. Single use, single use, like products, get a really bad rap, but in both the health, like a medical industry, I mean, they're an innovation that we don't have an alternative for yet, and also in the men

in black industry, it is very important in the space alien industry. Yeah, and I think it's important for us to do our part with the straws so that men in blacks can keep doing you know making people forget when they see aliens running through New York. I have a theory. I have a theory maybe maybe in men in black one they will single use neutralizers, right, but then they realized that they were being so wasteful that they developed a pen

Neutralizer gave one of those to Hing and now they're not single use anymore because after the neutralizing effect is still single use Mm-hmm. You can't change that technology. That just is what it is But then after they neutralize then they've got a nice pen to do some writing with and And now there's too many pens. Yeah, that's right. Like a neutralizer is single use like underpants. Yeah. Well, I could get this back on track. I don't think underpants are a single use product, I think.

No, you wear them 10, 15 times in a row before you wash them. I never wash them. I, this is all news to me. Oh, no. I, I, only wear underpants once. It's my... It's my... This is all news to me. Oh, no. I... I... Only wear underpants once. As soon as cotton touches my scrotum and pins. like I have to side with one of you,

but one of you is saying, you one should throw out their underpants every day. And the other is saying, for half a month, I should wear my shit stain underpants and never change the... No, no, no, no, no. I believe there's a middle ground. No, if there's shit stain, I'm just saying,

I don't change my underwear until my dick feels like it's on fire. Like that's the point. Just to really delve into your personal life there. Your own depends don't have to be shit stained. That's not a necessity. I would say at 15 days, they're not going to be nice. They might not be shit stained, but they're not going to be nice. Does that mean then that I...

You're a grown. ...want to throw them out every single night? You're f**king disgusting. That's what it not gonna be nice. Does that mean then that I? Won't throw them out every single night disgusting Run them under that you run them under the tap for a couple of minutes if you get shit on them and Then you ring a mount you put them back on again. You're good to go enjoy Alright, all right. Does everyone have their many black pens or yes, yes, it's not all I only have a No, no, it's not. I only have a pen. No, no, it's not all. I only have a pair of tight buttons, nut huggers. All right.

I got Calvin Klein's and I just want to say, it's not all. They're both neutralizers and you said nebulizers. They're both neutralizers. Nebulizers are just medication. Nebulizer is medication. Yes. It puts medication to the area. It was the main reason we had to go into lockdown again

the other day and we banked five podcasts in a row. But. Fun times. Michael, is this how you run the show every time? Get your fucking terrible. This is a terrible time. One little subversion. One tiny little subversion and you're completely flustered.

Before you do get back into it and we do get that nebulous going and not double mask. I do just want to say, I think it's a shame that we live in a world where someone having a conversation or where someone asking, is there something between these two ideas? Is there a conversation we can have about washing your underpants regularly, but not throwing them out? When I take a centrist position like that and believe that there is a middle ground, I

think it's a shame that I was the one getting attacked and being called a poo poo bum. And I think that's a shame. That's it. That's my final thought on the matter. Let's carry on with the ne poo bum. And I think that's a shame. That's it, that's my final thought on the matter. Let's carry on with the nebula. I always love when people say that's my final thought on the matter because it implies that that also has to be

your final thought on the matter. And people go like, that's my final thought on the matter. The conversation's over now. And it's like, well, now I'm not allowed to argue with you. Yeah, I have some. We can have some. Sure, we can make this a debate.

Well, you're the one who's the most most reasonable out of the three of us. you're the one who's the most reasonable out of the three of us. You're the one who's shitting your pants! No, I'm not shitting my pants. I'm not shitting my pants. I'm saying that, the build up of 15 days, I'm sure there would be some like streak mark there

after 15 days of not working your pants. If I wipe my ass with my undies, yes. But I tend to wipe with my butt. I tend to wipe with my butt. The use of my underpants of one day, I can only imagine after 15. Because obviously I have, I mainly eat burritos.

Yeah. I'm quite hot burritos. Yeah. So that's why I only use underpants once. Mm. Wow. So do you see here that, that I that the fact that I'm the bad guy because I say maybe you wash your underpants once a day,

we're a new pair every day, but only maybe cycle through, you know, between 7 and 14. Is that can I interject for a sec? Yeah, for sure. Michael, this is your last chance. Okay. Just this show on the right. Can I say something about the pants? You might have fans. Yeah, for sure. Michael, this is your last chance. Okay. It's just this show. Can I say something about the fans? In my defense, I've tried to get this podcast on track, I'd say, six times in the last eight

minutes. I think every time I've tried to do that, right? Can I list the things that have happened in that time? Right. First of all, I came up with a, we had a fun idea that I was going to be the host of the podcast and I was going to, I was going to, I had a fun thing we wanted to do. Immediately. What was that thing? What was that thing? We'll get to it. We'll get to it.

Immediately Mark undermines it. Right. Then, right. Then we have to go into a breakout room. So Zach and you can cancel Mark over that initial interruption. Okay. Following that, I'm trying to get things back on the throat. I, yes, sure.

I thought the men in black thing was a pen. That's three minutes of talking about that. After that, so that's a little bit on you, Mershyn. I should've let it go up. Well, there's another version. We're talking about underpants, right? Single-user otherwise. Suddenly that, and it's like I had actual comedy

I wanted to do on this podcast. I came with this podcast, some comedians I like to do comedy, and within 10 minutes We're talking about shitting ourselves in underpants For those watching the zoom have you written these down because it looks like you're reading them I've made some notes during the podcast Because and can I be honest I make notes because I've got two lists. Is this a Senate inquiry?

Yeah. Well, hang on. Do you, uh, Broden, do you recall? Do you recall? Yeah. Do you recall making us all talk about your shit, stay none the pants for six minutes. Do you? I, at this point in time, would have to refer to my notes and my chief of staff.

I don't remember. I yield my time. At this point, I'm a to refer to my notes and my chief of staff. I don't remember I'm a busy man. I'm a yield my time. Well, you didn't have the floor. You can't you I yield my time mark. I shit my pants. I shit my pants Broden I break I'm Zach Representative from Arizona. Braden, Braden, I'm representative from New York. Here's my question. Do you like shitting your pants?

It's an interesting question. You'll get a time man. No, it's a simple question. I've only got two minutes. Do you like shitting your pants? You'll get a few minutes. You'll get a few minutes. I'm gonna answer your question fully,

I would have to refer to further previous statements in the record. Well, I have a previous statement of yours. I have a previous statement of yours. I eat a lot of burritos, and I often, that's why I need to buy new pants every day because I shit them. Is it true that you said that statement?

The Senator from Phoenix will have to indulge me. If that's on the record, I presume that's what I've said. I couldn't recall. I think it's interesting that you come in here today, a pants shitter denying the fact. I think you should start. I yield Brodans time. I shit my pants.

Michael, get this show. All right. Can you yield your time, Michael? I refuse to. This is my podcast now. What does that, Michael? Philobastarigas. Philobastarigas. Philobastarigas.

Michael's Philobastarigas. Can I hit, you're a sketch comedy group. Is that correct? Yes, yes. You like little sketches and stuff. Yeah. I am a kindred spirit to you all. I was for a time in a university sketch comedy show.

That's a matter of ducklings. We were called ducklings. This is the thing is people come up to us all the time and say, oh, I do what you do. I fucking put on a play at uni. Yeah. And you think it's just easy. I, I, I'm not saying it's easy.

It took to write some of the work that we do, Michael. Days. Days would write a sketch every day. And I did it for about five years, right? So I had some million sketches. That's more work than we thought. They very quality. Let me be honest.

Broden did it for about two months. I was like, oh, I'm a million sketches. That's more like a million. They very quality. Let me be honest. Broden did it for about two months, and I was like, oh, I'm never doing that. Yeah, I did it for a little bit. Mark did it for a couple of months as well, and I didn't. So I have over a thousand scripts of university sketch comedy, which is, I think we can all agree,

some of the worst comedy that can exist. Did you write these scripts on your own, Michael Hing? Did we do that? Occasionally mostly on my own, but then I would occasionally work with other comedians. People who went on to do comedy, people like Alexey and Ben Jenkins, of no, it's you and me.

But I thought something I could do today is maybe write as a rimsale, just pitch you some ideas From from my days as a as a university sketch comedian and as professionals you could maybe coach me through Why these ideas work or not or like what you like what you don't like about them Just and also like we understand that these are uni ideas This is you developing and also we we I think it's worth noting, boys, that this is Michael, not Michael's job now.

He does stand up comedy. He's got a show at the Melbourne International comedy festival tickets on sale now. And also, he hosts a radio program and he writes on various other projects. But this is sketch is what we do every day of our lives. This is not what Michael does. So let's just keep an open mind if we can.

Okay, great, great. Are you gonna read the scripts to us? I'm not gonna read some scripts. I've just written, is this too nerdy that I've, I've had prepared too much. Just pull out this. No, I love this. This is great.

I always feel bad every time we have a guest. Like the aftercare of our podcast runs almost as long as our podcast. Where I'm just like, are you okay? It's a lot for us as well. I know it's not really improvisation, it's just a half hour of blocking. So I think the fact that you've brought something,

put you in good stead and I respect it. So I've just picked out a couple of sketch titles. No, you can kind of tell what the sketches are from the titles. I'm not answering any questions you have about them. Yeah, yeah, can I ask, I feel like we should be able to get the title. Then we should be able to get the premise if we need. I don't think you will. The titles are pretty explanatory. Can I just say to all of this? No.

It's a hard no for me. We're saying no. I was thinking we could do a new character of mine. God, the poo boy. Oh, good idea, I'm the poo boy, and I don't even broad and zunni pants. My vote is poo boy. What's your vote, Mark?

Well, I'd like to do my idea obviously, because I pitched it, so it's 2v1 right now. Mark, you got the deciding vote in many ways. What a crazy clever twist on the podcast this is because usually we would be hosting it. Mm. Mm. If you just thought what you did 30 seconds in.

Part of it. I'm just subverting. Mark, could you, listen. You said it would be better to do this like 18 minutes into the podcast. and so that is what I have done Oh, I've done. Oh very good. All right the first sketch that I'm gonna pitch to you. Thank you I love this. I don't want to be and I want to be clear what I I'm you you've really made this podcast today about

Pooing and wing yourselves not really wing yourself, sorry. That was before we brought in poo boy. Yeah. Well, get out. More. I love, oh, I've set up a little man shit. It brought the zander beds. I got a chick out of roll poster. I got a corrugated iron bar and a fridge full of eb. This is a well drawn out character. This is poo boy.

He seems to be some sort of like suburban, you know, gaffed up bogant type character. Pooboy, but he lives in my underpins. I'll set up a man cave. Yeah, in Broden's underpins. Do you have like any football memorabilia? Yeah, I've got one of them ones where it's got the football player. It's a really long, thin, horizontal picture of a football player holding a football, either arm. And I've also got a picture of a beautiful lady with my favorite jersey painted on her new body.

They did that. They did do that in the back. They did that in 1998. How many power drills do you have in there? None. Cause I'm poo. I've only got a little have in there? None. Cause I'm poo, I've only got little pieces of gold. All right, Michael, please.

So this is a departure from what you guys usually do obviously. This sketch is entitled, Guy whose voice is pitched at the brown note. What do we forget? Wow, that seems a bit. It seems a bit. Like, we don't really do a lot of poo, cheap, be brown, cheap. What do we think about that? That seems a bit... Think of it. Put like... We'd rather do a lot of poo-cheap-be-browny stuff.

It's quite funny because he can't help it. He has to go through everyday life, but every time he talks, people around him, their aynas just shit themselves. Yeah, but it's a bit of a sort of rose. That's the brown. And did you perform this one at university? I did, I did. What was the crab reaction like?

I mean... it was like, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, I would, and that is what I would change the sketch to. I would say he doesn't talk at the brown note, he talks at the fuck note. And so every time he talks, people start fucking and pulling. Yeah.

Those related to, in your mind, Mark? Fucking and pulling. Yeah. But I don't understand how you could do one thing. He's asking if you've got a scat kink. My kink is to eat Arni you've got a scatter kink. Mike, my kink is to eat honey hammer. That's my king. Yeah, all right. I want to eat him while I jerk off. Yeah. Um, I just want to address earlier, uh, just just for some

context thing, we, um, so Mark before said that he suspects the audience would react like We have a bit of a policy at Auntie Donna our number one goal is for the audience to react like Yeah, kind of like a laughing like a whole whole whole or hey Hey like that sort of thing is really important to us Yeah, no, that's that's not really what I was going for. I guess I was going for more of a... Mmm. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Kind of reaction to the audience. Okay. That's me. Look, I give it 10 out of 10. Yeah, 10 out of 10. That's a really nice, very strong. Thank you.

Are we able to use some of these ideas? Fuck ideas. You can have you some of these ideas? You can have as many of these as you'd like. All right. I'll just I'll just route. We don't have to go through all we ask. Do we own these now? Are you fully going on the record and saying we own these? We own the IP of these content these sketches now. I you can have as many of these you positive. Are you positive? None of them were used for the oh god. What was the name of Jordan's running Johnny Johnny I went to say Ronnie King I'm like that's a media I was like run

King's our fower and I'm not gonna say Ronnie King's our fower that'll make me see my biggest idiot in all the running Charlie's our I don't think he's still in a world. To the Ronnie Cheg. Ronnie Cheg is our fellow. He's confused at high profile Australian comedian Ronnie Cheg with a sketch show from the 2000s called The Ronnie John's. Ronnie John's, he's our fellow. Where is Ronnie Cheg's?

Where is the Ronnie Cheg's our fellow? We just got commissioned for three more episodes. And it'll be Netflix. It'll be a great niche sketch to do somewhere. The Ronnie Cheg's our fellow. Ronnie Cheg's our fellow. to do somewhere. The Ronnie Chings, Half Hour. Ronnie Chings. Hey, hey, chopper. Hey, you guys, hey, hey.

My voice. Did you know my voice? Have you heard about this? My voice. It's pitched at the brown note, right? That means every time I talk, people shit their pants. Okay. Did you do Ronnie Chings chopper doing the weather?

Hang on, hang on. Hey, hey, Niveau Barthas, yeah? Yeah. Can you do runny tings chopper doing the weather hang on hang on Hey, hey, never bar toss. Yeah, yeah These are good sketch two all right. We got two good sketches. We got two great sketches All right, pictures your third one. All right, he's like these are all gold. Obviously these are all gold Young them so it doesn't matter. What are you guys familiar with? The the trope good cop bad cop? No, yeah, you know in a cop in a cop movie, you know, in my opinion, all cops are bad cops. Sure, I can. All cops are bad cops. Yeah, that's this is the platform. This is the platform for that conversation.

Well, you know, there's two A-cabs, you know, I also believe in all cops of base. So, Boo, go. Well, yeah, in the good cop bad cop situation, we did a little twist on that, where the bad cop in the good cop bad cop dynamic was just a sort of incompetent cop, a cop.

We were like, cop. And then, so we were taking a cock. And it was a chicken life. So it was a rooster? Is it a puppet rooster? It's pitch good, I'm a dumb, I'm a dumb penis. I can't even go to the shops. It's very funny because that mistake right there is when that went from a good sketch

to an anti-donna sketch. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm a penis. I saw it as a poo boy. I missed poo boy. Don't get out there on poo boy. Yeah. Is poo boy in any of your sketches, Michael?

There are some other ones that we don't want to, I don't want to tread on Zach's toes. It's going to be a hard sell if there's no poo boy in it. So good cop, bad cop became just good cop, anything cop. We just, okay, so what's happening here for people who are only listening to the podcast and are watching the Patreon feed of the video? Both Mark and Broden have decided to, I guess, block their faces on their camera. Broden with a small cardboard cutter to his head and Mark with a banana peel. I guess the joke here is that Broden has a photo that represents him and Mark is represented

by a banana peel. I think that's the joke here. Is that Mark, Mark, banana? He's just a banana. We're not doing any of that. We're not doing any of that. We're not doing any of that. He talks. What are you talking about? You can be a liar. You can be a popular liar. Well.

On my own podcast. If you're listening and you don't have access to the videos, there's no way for you to know whether or not. Yeah, we're not doing that. What was going on? But we're not doing that. And there's Michael's acting really well. Michael, you're doing a very bad job

with pitching your ideas. If you were at SNL, you would be, you would be one of the riders who doesn't get his sketch on the show. I'm Lauren Michaels. I said, like, Dr. Evil. It's because Dr. Evil started as a Lauren Michaels impression. Oh, he's got a big ol' square assignment Lauren Michaels. I'd like to hear your pitches.

I'm Lauren Michaels. Okay, this one was a parody of the popular sitcom Two and a Half Men. What happened to good cop air cop vehicle? So it was good cop in cop. Was it good cop bad cop? Oh, he's bad. That was a real, that was an ongoing joke we had in the show. And each time we did the show,

we would have a new Good Cop X-Cop. Like, yeah, for me, personally, 10 out of 10, love it. Thank you. Thank you. Do you play the incompetent cop? I would sometimes play the Wacky cop. The cop that was not the Good Cop. So it was the Good Cop and then you got got to, like, it was be like,

I'm, I'm trying to be your friend. My partner out there, he's crazy. He's Theodore Roosevelt. And that sketch would be called good cop, Theodore Roosevelt cop, for example. Did you do it as like a, did you do like the name of the sketch was like a reveal at the end?

How did you kind of play it? We would, someone would sit side of stage and while the sketch was happening, they would yell the title of the sketch at the audience. They understood the premise that was largely confusing. So it was helpful for them. Right. This one was a parody of the sitcom Two and a Half Men.

But it was called Tuna Half Men. And it was about some sea creatures that were made in a lab and then cross-bred with humans and then had to be in a sitcom, but they were in constant pain and were sort of like all scaly. And they felt nothing, but a longing for death. And that was a sort of a parody of comedy. One of the fan of a longing for death kind of thing,

we don't do that often enough in Donner, in my opinion. I'd love more like I long for death, you know. Like, why was it like that? Why was it like that? You know, it was one of them also a misogynist. I think one of them was really into cocaine. I think at that point, the joke about Charlie Sheen was he was more of a cocaine man.

Right. We weren't really a political sketch. We got in all the way. We didn't have any AKAB sketches like I knew. cocaine man right we weren't really a political Not good Well then we didn't have any AKAB sketches like I like fucking mark over here pull it out the big guts hey hey I'm not gonna hide political But I'm gonna where they are gonna put them out there. Oh no it's broad and gone back to the cardboard face situation I don't know there might be an issue with your zoom man. I don't know what you know Mark is holding up what appears to be a purple,

I think it's a pussy. Is that what that is? First of all, I'm not holding up anything. Second of all, Tom's wanted to come in and see. Which is, I've just, now I've become Tom Armstrong. Again, a visual joke, which is not something we should be doing for a largely audio But let's get back to doing anything to but he's just making this yeah Michael

That's been a bad so I don't know what's wrong with you zoom but get that checked all right Michael rapid fight give us 10 okay To this sketch is called tonight Macbeth tonight the part of McBeth will be played by a poisonous clout of gas. What about this? Fidel Castro, the friendly ghost. Is that funny? I don't know. Okay, Fidel Castro, the friendly ghost I like. I'm a big fan of recasting. It's something again. I want to do more of in Antidona, you know, the recasting of this. Goldilocks and the three-beard grills. Is there it? Does anyone like that? I love it. You're in this incredibly pun-based the same heavily punned base. Yeah, very punned. A lot of it is. A lot of it was basic.

I had to write, I had to write 30 of these a week, all right? Yeah. Well, 30 of these days. And he worked so hard and now we own them all. And now we own them all. Joseph Stalin and his technical adrencode. What do you think of that? I'm a big fan of that.

I'm a big fan of Joseph Stalin and the same. The thing is that these are all great puns. How do they play out over three minutes? Oh, these will not be three minutes. I mean, it's generous for you to think that these are all great puns. How do they play out over three minutes? Oh, these would not be three minutes. I mean, it's generous for you to think that these are three minutes. The reason I wrote so many is because we had a 90 minute show to put on and we just have to fill it

with any idea. So often it would be, these would only go for sort of two minutes really. Some of them would go for three. Some of them, you know what, you don't basically sketch comedy. Like sometimes you just do a sketch for six minutes in direct defines of the audience's enjoyment.

None of us really did university sketch, to be honest. We were, we were, it's very professional. We were doing a Shakespeare, so you know, we've done Dickens's work on stage, we've done Shakespeare, we've all done the work of Euripides, we, Zach and I were in a production of the back eye, which is sort of a bloody lard and lust and orgies of sex. I played Odysseus in the Odyssey, and I took down

the one-eyed giant. We never did sketch. We didn't waste our time with it. We made it our career for 11 years. But so we don't, this doesn't resonate with us, Michael. Joseph Stalin and his Technic-Olladreem, Cote, 10 out of 10, love it. Thank you, thank you.

I really love to be like. I really love to be like. That was actually, that was actually Zack's idea, that wasn't mine. Are you sure? Yeah, that was Zack's idea. Well, that was great. Which one?

All the idea was my face. I'm not sure if you know. You know I'm up with, so far Poo Boy is the best one. Could I have Poo Boy? That's all the idea. That was my face. I'm not saying good idea. You low-pitched. You low-pitched. So far, Poo Boy is the best one. Can I have Poo Boy? Because... Uh...

No. I don't know. It's largely why we started having you down well. Productions. Yeah. Poo Boy is probably going to be our biggest hit. I don't know what that's. One more chance to give us one more idea, okay?

Okay. This is going to... We got more idea, okay? Okay, this is gonna, we gotta, you know, Okay, I'll know of this, so one more idea. Imagine this, imagine this. This is a scenario where there's a Hollywood director and they're trying to find who's gonna do the music to their big film, right? And the film happens to be Jurassic Park.

They're looking for who's gonna score Jurassic Park. Like I expected to be John Williams. That's who they want. They want John Williams, don't they? He's down Star Wars. He's probably down Indiana Jones. He's the top of his game. But instead, who should show up instead of John Williams? It's actually Australian-foken country star, John Williamson. I do like that.

I'm more Stalin. I'm more Stalin. I'm still on the Joseph Stalin one. Guys, you got to understand. I mean, you know, this is golf. Do you have, do you have your, it's pretty funny. I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry.

Be Mr. Dynasaur is creeping up the stairs. It's out of town. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Which is I think this. It's out of town. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Would you say that this... Good trip tour, don't end up like that. It's a party, but we love that. Bert, and I love the Ripper Ripper Woodship song.

It's called Environment. It's called The Ripper in the Kitchen. Surrepar in the Kitchen, get out, kids. You see? Ha ha ha. When you got a loss, a Raptor in the Kitchen, get to tell it to get out Big T-Rex stomping around the par

Better get out of the T-Rex's way That's really good I think it'll be fun. Is that your thong song? Do you think that's is that your thong song the jumboeums? your thong song? Do you think that's... Is that your thong song, the John Williams? Is it a center down the road with the T-Rex? You gotta fight the T-Rex. The visitor said, go down the road to fight the T-Rex.

That's the T-Rex one. I love it. Yeah, I'm actually quite a ball with that. Anyone who goes to the list now. Let's quickly shark knit it. I mean, what is it? I shark tank it. I'm actually quite a ball at that. Anyone who got it all least now. We'll let's quickly sharpen it. I mean, what is it? I ain't not the Robin Drew. Yeah, how much percent do you...

What do you ask? What's the equity? What's the equity? I would ask for $18 for a 30% stake. That's what I'm offering. So what does you valued those sketches? $18.30. It'd be something like $60 or something like that?

Yeah, $60 something. And how did you come to that? I think that's... I took me, like, many hours to write those sketches and I valued my time at about three dollars an hour. So listen to me because I'm getting quite frustrated here. I respect that you put a lot of time into these sketches. I respect that you're passionate about them.

How much money have you made? I'm talking about gross profit, net profit revenue. How much have you made in the last three years from these sketches? Well, I just want to say that I've actually been working a lot of other comedy as well. So I've been making money in other. You're asking for a lot for these sketches. Well, I just want to say that I've actually been working a lot of other comedy as well. So I've been making money in other. You're asking for a lot for these sketches. You're valuing them at $67 something. Yeah. How much money do you know that I've

been diversifying? So I'm not just working on sketches. I'm also doing stand-up, I'm doing radio, I'm doing TV. So that's kind of where I'm making a lot of my money. And this is more of a passion project for me. So if you had come in here, can I buy a steak of the radio of the standout? That's not really for sale, because that's already, that's the world. That's really what I've been to. That's what you've made on the steak. Yeah, and I think it's quite insulting

that you would come into the tank, you would come into the tank, valuing something that as far as I know has made $0. When he says tanky means the shark tank I think I say the film fury Previously when you've when I've when I've watched shark tank on TV Yeah, it's been on like a TV set like a studio and the shark tank is more of a metaphor Why are we filming this in an actual tank set from like we were low on our ears.

We just thought on May and they were like, no, we're low. So the producers had the idea that this season two of the five sharks are actual sharks. And this is the only way we could do it. But what we get to say I'm so sorry, bro, did I interrupt it? I don't remember, but I'm learning off you three million dollars for John Williams and Jurassic Park. Okay.

Okay. I actually really want to do John Williams. Jurassic Park. Okay. Okay. I actually really want to do John Williams and Jurassic Park. I think you have fans, good. You just take Joe, what's his movie? Jurassic Park. And he puts the fucking rip rib wood chip over it. I think that's a great little thing we should do. So we'll call you about that.

Right. But unfortunately, the rules of the tank that we have to make it to tank up. If you come in here with a higher percentage, a lower price, I might have considered it. But as it stands, this is insulting, Michael. It's insulting. It indicates that I have nothing to offer to this deal. Actually, you know what?

I will make an offer. I will make an offer, Michael. Okay, what's going on for you? What you asked for, $18? But I want 90% of the sketches. I won't, I, I don't know. Michael, listen, this is upset. It's just like when you have avocado on toast in the morning

and you're getting it seasoned to, getting it to the perfect seasoning for your taste buds. It's insulting that you will find the good taste. Oh boy. Michael, sorry. You don't know. Broding fat off for a second? Yeah.

Insolting. Hey mate. It's in the salting. Mate, sorry, just I wanted to get you away from the other guys. Just. Yeah. What was that mate? What was that?

Yeah. I think you're funny. I think you can do better than that mate mate. Sorry, mate. My dog died this morning I had to put it down I'm like a rough morning She hates flaming hot Cheeto dust Okay, we'll just we'll come back to my car so burns so much better shooter in the fucking head Michael Shoot the fucking dog in the head Michael guys guys. That's all right had left in me. I oh Ruby looked up at my

Damn mother cricket. I didn't know that Proudin's dog and Couldn't doesn't have a dog. He's never had a dog This is all part of the shark tank brain time So far of these guys we play in mind games with you to get a lot lower percentage. Broding, can I talk to you for a second? Absolutely. I know where you fucking live. Alright.

You know where I live. Don't dox me. I know where you fucking live. I know where you fucking live. I don't actually think you do. I don't think you do know where Broding lives. Yeah, I move a lot. Actually. I think Broding moves since the last time. I don't really know where Broding lives. Yeah, I move a lot. Actually. I think Broden moves since the last time we were in.

I don't really know where Broden lives. Yeah, I know the bridge you live under Broden. I know the specific bridge you live under, right? Oh, with your life. I don't live under a bridge. Oh. Oh. Yes.

Yes. Do you guys want to make your offers? I've made my offer $90, $18. That's actually a good deal. Well, you guys should go for a problem. Well, that's a good deal. You should take it to him You don't know your price per sketch. You don't know your profit per sketch and so for those reasons I'm out Right, I'm really disappointing. I was really hoping to work with you Mark. Um, oh, oh, okay. I'm sorry

I'm sorry. Oh, no, I'm sorry that I'm the. Oh no, I'm sorry that I'm the consolation prize. I'm a CEO of IT companies. I'm a... What I'm a CEO of? I'm a CEO of... 400 million pound. What IT company was CEO of? We got bought by Amazon.

So let me tell you... So you already walked, so bought by Amazon. Yeah, so let me tell you, I'm the CEO still, they just own it. I'm not the owner. So you're just worth someone else's wanted to someone else's time now. He's, he's what I'm going to say to you right now. He's what I'm going to say to you right now, okay? When you said to Mark, I wanted to work with you. That makes me think I'm second best. I don't want to be second best. When I'm an investor, I want to invest with someone that wants to work with me. And for that reason, I'm out.

You know what? I didn't, I never want to work with me. And for that reason, I'm out. You know what, I never want to work with you. You're a fucking poo boy who lives in Brodans, I'm the pants. I'm the character I was playing. You're man-kated sucks. I think you're neon sign with the boobs on it. I think it's tacky. I think it's tacky and I think you know it's tacky. And that's the reason you know, like,

mom going there anymore. I think you've made a mistake. That was a character I was playing. That was a character I was playing. Psycho to come in your sketches on Thanos direct and that would have been a very big seller It would have been a very big sell here With them direct to market. I tell you what direct to market that was the way Broding you're my last you're my last chance and I'll buy it. I'll suck you dick

The other boy Oh, sick. What? The other boy. You did say that. I'm not. I need a baggy. I'm not a baggy. I'm not a baggy.

I get the dick sucky sucky. I get the dick sucky sucky and it's a happy ending for everyone. I'll take 1%. I'll take 1%. Gobble you up. Yeah. Yeah. What a happy ending.

I'll start the balls. What a happy ending. I'll jam your flaccid men Oh yeah It all ended so wonderfully Michael Michael tell us about We can we follow you We want to see you

It's a really racking us as soon as we all stop We just find it's totally okay No, I'm gonna show that If you want to suck, bro,. Well that's fine, which is fine, it's totally okay. No, I'm not going to mention that. If you want to suck, Proto stick, that's okay. But Michael, tell us about something. This is your show, one. This is your show, one. You'll see.

You're going to be a mouthful. When is your show? When is your show? It's the size of a mouth, but in the whole, in the full sense of it. The size of a mouthful. It has teeth, but they're fy teeth, they're fleshy teeth. Now, like a Wendy's show, what time is it on?

I'm excited. We're from the Get-to-Cheese. It's in the Melbourne International coming festival from the 24th of March, I'm doing the first two-ish weeks. It's called Kill-Hing in the name of, it's a very funny pun, but it has nothing to do with the show. What is it with you and fucking puns? Yeah, I don't know, it's just, yeah, it's an easy joke. I don't know, people love it.

Why didn't you, why didn't you pitch us kill-hing in the name of I would have given you the money for that? Well, I, I don't mean to, I just, I know this show is going to sell out, so I know it's going to do well, I don't really want to cut you in on that. No, that makes sense. No, that makes sense. Comedy cut you in on that comedy republic I'm a comedy republic yeah Michael I'm gonna show if I can very quickly just tell you what the show is about if that's okay well yeah of course In the zoom call

No the show is about Last year I started new job at triple J and I very quickly started getting So death threats from Super-Street's people would hate it me. And it's about me trying to deal with that, but it's very fun. I promise it's jokes. It's not a serious show. It's true.

And this is your first time back to Melbourne since 2018, isn't it? It is, wow. Yeah, and you're reading the press release, bro. And it feels like, no, not at all. And it's like, I've heard it's a show that's about having too many therapists, invisible lobsters, and receiving a low-key death threat, you know, classic.

Yeah, it does seem like you are reading, because I recognize those words, because I don't have a publisher, and I wrote those words. Broden, so I recognize you're reading directly from them. I wrote them. Broden, broden. Broden is your publisher, Snail Beach.

Oh, Broden, I'm stuck on that. Broden, I suck on that. I will swap you John Williams, John Williams, for you being my publicist here in the comedy festival. Big mistake, but all right. John's just. Yes. Thanks for coming on, Michael. Thanks for being on my podcast.

We'll see you later, buddy. Have a great week. Bye, Michael. Bye. You've been listening to the Antidona podcast. Thanks for joining us for another rip episode brought to you by AntidonaClub.com. See you next week! you