By JESSE GRAHAM
RENOWNED comedian Dave Hughes will be making his way down to perform in Healesville and Pakenham in September.
Well-known for his work with Nova Melbourne and The Project, Hughes will be hitting the stage to perform stand-up comedy at Healesville’s Memo Hall on 11 September and Pakenham’s Cardinia Cultural Centre on 13 September as part of his Pointless tour.
He said he was aiming to make 2014 a year dedicated to stand-up comedy and that he was looking forward to the Healesville and Pakenham shows.
Hughes said that a lot of his material for the tour came from life experience – particularly the experience of having kids aged under five.
“The … joy of that is in the show quite a bit,” he said.
“The kids get a good run – they’re stars in their own right. They’re paying for their own education.”
No stranger to the stand-up stage, Hughes has performed repeatedly at the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival.
He said that one of the favourite moments in his career was his first gig at the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala in 1999, and recalled that he hit a nerve with a three-minute routine focused on fish and chips.
Despite more than a decade on the airwaves and five years on television, Hughes said that nothing quite compares to having a captive audience before him.
“It’s the immediacy of that audience – it could be 50, 500, 1000 people in front of you, but the joy of their attention and making big rooms laugh – or any rooms laugh – is hard to beat.
For the attendees at his Pakenham show, Hughes simply said: “They can look forward to a good time”, and that he felt in top form for the event.
Dave Hughes’s shows begin at 7.30pm on Thursday 11 September at the Memo Hall in Healesville and Saturday 13 September at Pakenham’s Cardinia Cultural Centre. Tickets are $44.90 for either show.
To book tickets for the Healesville show, visit culturetracks.info or 1300 368 333. To book tickets for the Pakenham show, visit cardinia.vic.gov.au or call 1300 887 624.
The Mail has a double pass to give away for each of Dave Hughes’ shows in Healesville and Pakenham.
To go into the draw, simply visit www.facebook.com/MailNewspaperGroup and share, like and comment on the relevant post.
Winners will be drawn on 29 August.
