Or, how one man's nightmare holiday turned into an international comedy career
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Review: Since his Melbourne Comedy Festival award-winning Three Colours Hammo, Justin Hamilton's really nailed his schtick. The man is a storyteller more than a gag delivery system and Idiot Man Child (some of which he debuted during his brief 2009 visit) is a taut show which plays to his strengths: warm reminiscences about his past mixed with well-phrased barbs at his current bugbears. And as such this show is often hilarious - as a fellow former South Australian, his description of Adelaide as an old, stained, but comfortable suit that he can't quite bring himself to throw out struck a particular nerve – and his adds for the fictional suburban beer-barn nightclub Fingerknuckle were chillingly plausible ("Monday nights we've got women wrestling in mud – with bricks!"). As long as he's got anecdotes to mine, he's never going to lack for shows - as Idiot Man Child demonstrates. Andrew P Street
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