Jeff Green, living the dream.

Many comedians dream of becoming as slick as Jeff Green*.


A long time Comedy Festival regular, Jeff Greens show this year is titled "Living the Dream".

It's about his Windsor suburban lifestyle: kids, marriage and a mortgage.

Despite the topic of the show, I still felt myself laughing a lot. I'm not quite living the dream myself, so I don't relate that heavily to much of the material. I do understand the topic, I guess I find it a bit too mundane and boring.

Jokes about not having enough sex, the laundry and other such things shouldn't really make me laugh, but they did. So at the end I felt mixed about it all. On one hand, I was definitely laughing, on the other hand I didn't want to.

Held in a fairly large room at the Melbourne town hall, it was mostly packed. Packed with people who were also living the dream - or aspired to it. These people also laughed a lot with Jeff.



Jeff Green - Living the Dream is on at the Melbourne town hall until the 26th of April 2009.

*ps, calling someone slick in comedy is a compliment relating to how well polished the performance is. Slick wasn't a reference to Jeff Greens hair.