Adam Hills

Montreal seems to love a good festival - they host a jazz festival, a F1 Grand Prix, winter festivals etc, etc.  One of it's most famous festivals is the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival.  It goes for a whole month each July and there is everything from small, intimate shows through to massive gala nights that end up being televised later in the year.  Of course there are shows in French and English!

While I'm still on the search for a young person to baby sit for us, one of Fanta Pants' colleagues kindly looked after the kids so we could go and see a familiar face.

We've loved Australian comedian Adam Hills for a long time and we'd watch Spicks and Specks religiously so of course we were excited to see him perform live.  Of course he doesn't have nearly the same following in Montreal as he does at home so it was a pretty small and intimate venue in the gritty Plateau borough.  The venue reminded me of somewhere you'd go at uni... the smell of stale beer, ripped posters and the foyer was full of mismatched second hand couches.

Adam Hills is a very intelligent funny guy and we really enjoyed the show.  His music knowledge was evident when he sung the Canadian national anthem to "Summer of '69" by Brian Adams and then the German national anthem to "99 Luftballons" by Nena!!!  (that one was for you Sushicat!!).

Part of his show involved getting various audience members to do sit ups and push ups.  I really found that part naff.  Watching a group of random guys do 100 reps wasn't very funny.  It seemed like a cop out not having to prepare jokes for that section of the show which was only an hour long...  Having said that we did have a good laugh and it was a lovely night out.  Now to find a regular babysitter so we can do this more often!!

xx