We all have to start somewhere. Both Wayan (Kurly) Keenan and Vincent Tshaka have plenty of potential and the personality to charm a room, but they need to work their material up much more. They’re obviously well-brought up boys who are keeping themselves nice at the expense of comedy, Keenan in particular. He missed an opportunity to tell us about his mum making magic mushroom soup for a tourist who later became her partner – now there’s a story I want to hear.
Keenan needs to get back to the writing board and find the jokes in his anecdotes – many of them don’t go anywhere and giggles were few. Tshaka’s facial expressions and dry delivery give him a good start, but he also needs to focus on using language succinctly and making his delivery sharper.
The two of them are exotic – Keenan’s from Bali and Tshaka is from Kenya. This is interesting, let’s hear more. They need to go further, be ruder and not spare themselves, or their audience. Racism is a delicate and dangerous subject for white comedians to tackle but these gentlemen of colour have carte blanche. Let it rip, fellas.
BY LIZA DEZFOULI
