HaHa Comedy Club

Time Out Sydney Comedy award-winners Cloud Girls tell Andrew P Street all about their new monthly comedy showcase, HaHa.

What inspired you to run your own night?
We really wanted a space to perform experimental comedy that isn't necessarily traditional stand-up and have comics that we really like come and play around too. We wanted the room to have a variety of comedy and freedom. And it be really really really funny.

Why the Roxbury?
The first fundraiser and second gig we ever did was at the Roxbury in 2007. It was for our show How to Be a Cloud and Other Life Lessons, which we were taking to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. The room has always had a really nice vibe. The stage is close to the audience so you can get involved. The managers and extremely good looking bar staff have always been great to us too. It's a good location (a plus). They have a 'Buck Hunter' (a plus plus). You can also get real tasty food there which is always a drawcard for us (a plus plus burp).

What's your criteria for artists?
People who make us laugh. They are maybe a little different, very creative, original and doing what they do really well.

What, in your wildest fantasies, are you hoping to achieve from HaHa?
To have (sexy) obsessive fans camping outside the Roxbury waiting to bust on in and to get a good seat and buy our T-shirts (they don't exist yet). Then to have Julia Gillard and Robin Williams in the audience laughing hysterically (it wouldn't be a distraction). Diamonds would magically pour from the ceiling when the show started. We have a crew of disgruntled but mostly non-heckling flamingos in the front row.

OK... and who's on?
We've got Sam Bowring, Eric Hutton, Ryan Withers, Amanda Grey, Rhys Nicholson, John Cruckshank and us!