Lee Naimo answers the big questions ahead of the filming of their live DVD.
How can we laugh as the world slides into chaos? Laugh with insanity
and a maniacal pleasure: mwah hah hah hah hah hah hah, I'll get you Batman!
Sydney Comedy Festival Review: The full room that greeted Axis of Awesome is proof that
this local trio are finally getting the sort of popularity that they deserve,
which is good since a show like Infinity Rock Explosion needs a full,
enthusiastic audience to work properly. And work it does: the group have got
their on-stage personas down, their timing is tight and the show barrels along
beautifully. Since they are somewhere between "band" and "comedy act" they can
get away with recycling well-known material like ‘Bird Plane' and the closing ‘Four
Chord Song' (which, to be fair, can easily be updated a couple of times a month), and
if their ‘First Ever Song In Three-D' was possibly more effort than it was
worth, the slinky loverman soul of ‘Sexual Harassment' could yet become their
own ‘Business Time'. Awesome, your time has come. Andrew P Street
What punchline have you longed to find a joke for but never quite managed? We sing
songs, we don't tell jokes. Benny's been trying for years to make a D dominant
seventh with a flat and fifth funny but no luck as yet.
If you could call a moratorium on one over-used stand-up premise, what
would it be? Definitely Centaur jokes: they're not funny and to be
honest they're a little bit racist. What is this, 1950 BC?
Bill Hicks or Bill Cosby? Billie Piper.
Does your mother approve of your career choice? Yes, our
mothers all approve. But for tax purposes this is a hobby, not a career.
What's the one subject that you've never been able to make a joke about? There are
heaps: bananas, doctors, muffins, deforestation, graffiti, Pentecostal
churches, chairs, haircuts, aliens, teeth, the list goes on. Hotel staff, Christina
Aguleira, Big Mouth Billy Bass (c), pterodactyls, soup, suitcases, wheel
chairs, the native Cherokee, white wine, Picasso, the list continues: pencil
cases, fifty cent pieces, backgammon, Pauly Shore, the underfunding of public
schools, clouds shaped like cocks, the cantina band from Star Wars, and AIDS.
If your comedy was a musical genre, what would it be? Our comedy is a musical
genre: it's musical comedy. We're the Axis of Awesome and we sing
comedy songs, also known as musical comedy. Did you not get our press release?
Of what comedian would you most like to hear about the mysterious, asteroid-collision-related
disappearance? If a comedian disappeared because of an asteroid, it
wouldn't be mysterious. For it to qualify as a mystery there needs to be some
unknown element, however in this scenario we know both the victim and the cause
of the disappearance (see above re: asteroid). Should this happen the planet
will be destroyed and we will all be obliterated, rendering the mysteriousness of
the situation irrelevant. But if we had to answer: Sam Simmons.
Complete: Two men walk into a bar... full stop.
What do you want to be when you grow up? Jordan: Batman. Benny: Taller.
Lee: Billie Piper.
What's the funniest thing about Sydney? The amount of homeless people.
It's not funny-ha-ha, it's funny peculiar. Seriously, what's going on?
In 30 words or less, explain what your show is about and why everyone
should go and see it. It's an hour of musical comedy from those guys you
saw on the Internet. No not the cat, those other guys. No no not the Lemon
Party. DO NOT GOOGLE THE LEMON PARTY!
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