Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls

If you’re looking for something a little different amongst the overwhelming amount of acts on show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, look no further than Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls. This debut solo-sketch show by RAW Comedy QLD finalist David Massingham combines absurdly amusing and faultless characters, playful props and good-humoured audience interaction until the whole room feels like one big love-in.

Set in the stunning nineteenth-century building Tasma Terrace, Massingham fills the small space with his fast-paced energy and melodramatic skits. This funny, wacky show builds in pace until the climax in the last sketch, which will leave you feeling seriously exhilarated.

With an award-winning career spanning over a decade in sketch comedy and improvisation, Massingham’s characters are eccentric, well fleshed out and highly entertaining – think a hopeless alcoholic attending AA meetings, a dodgy mayor spruiking the benefits of his deadly small town and a electrocuted lecturer appealing for help from his class, amongst numerous others.

Don’t be scared off if audience interaction isn’t your thing. There is a reasonable amount of audience involvement but it’s very respectfully done, there’s nothing embarrassing expected of anyone. Massingham mainly directs his speech towards audience members, like silent extras in his show.

There is something truly fascinating about comedy shows: it’s one of those things someone would only do if they are completely passionate about it (and sometimes a little nuts). Why else would you risk yourself up there in front of an unpredictable live audience, night after night? Part of Massingham’s appeal is that his passion and intensity is unmistakable. Mix that in with his hilarious characters and Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls is one of the hidden gems of this year’s festival.

Sketch Me Like One of Your French Girls 
Tasma Terrace, 6 Parliament Place, East Melbourne
Till Sunday, 8 April 2018, 8pm
comedyfestival.com.au/2018/shows/sketch-me-like-one-of-your-french-girls