Party: Women Like Us | Comedy

Party: Women Like Us | Comedy

Women Like Us | Comedy

Saturday 17th September 2016
Doors open 7.30pm | Time: 8:00pm

2 hours of rapid fire, outrageously honest, delightfully irreverent comedy!

In demand on the comedy circuit and adored for their ability to find the humour in everyday experiences, Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs believe it's their regionality that gives them strength in country audiences.

'We both live in Mullumbimby in Northern NSW - our life experiences seem to parallel the audiences that we talk to - we're not young inner city groovers. We're 40 something mothers of teenagers, we're wives, and ex wives! Ellen can wrangle a snake and operate a ride on mower in the afternoon, and by evening she dons heels and a frock and then she's MCing a charity ball. We're small town showgirls. And boy do we have fun on stage!'

There are few sacred cows that Briggs and Nolan shy away from milking, pushing the bucket of popular opinion under the teats and then the jokes start flowing!

With seven children between them, parenting and their own reoccurring instances that they call 'failure to parent' are certainly the focus of some of their material, but then so is the beauty industry, getting older, getting fatter, strange surgeries, weird TV shows, obsessions, frustrations, and at the end of the day, who unpacks the flipping dishwasher.

The two friends have teamed up to bring two hours of stand up to communities they believe would love a dose of Women Like Us.

'We're not rarefied trophy wives' says Nolan. 'We are the kind of women who know how to put up our own shelves! We just don’t dust them.’

Ellen is effortlessly funny. Trevor Hendy declared Ellen the funniest comedian he had ever seen.

With an easy going friendly nature that belies the dark wit that lurks beneath. Ellen says things that other mothers dare only to think, taking her audience on an observational and hilarious journey through life as an accidentally mother of identical twins and the wife of a husband who is away working 9 months of the year. She has made an art from of sneaking in politically incorrect jokes at the end of her 'nice yarns'.

Nolan is a favourite and regularly called on for private functions for Olivia Newton John who has declared that Mandy has 'a wicked sense of humour'.

Having just completed a national tour promoting her third memoir 'Home Truths', taking her ascerbic insights to the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Noosa and Caloundra Mandy is also a columnist for the Byron Shire Echo, and writes regularly for The Hoopla.
"Ellen Briggs and Mandy Nolan are two funny, funny ladies. Straight-talking independent women who shoot straight from the lip and keep the stories coming, the kind of sparkly, charismatic women who, if you met at a dinner party you would be enthralled, chin in hands as they deliver one funny, entertaining tale after the other.

Armed with a repertoire chock full of Mum jokes, Mullumbimby hippy digs and witty, intelligent tales about waxing, trying on clothes and having to deal with snooty shop assistants, (and that’s just the tip of the iceberg) their humour is warm, sometimes politically incorrect and always entertaining." - We Know Melbourne, MICF Review, 16 April 2016

Doors open 7:00pm
Show starts 8:00pm

This is a general admission theatre style seated show | Seats are not allocated.

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