One Small Trip

Ross Daniels is a hilariously funny, almost weird little guy, but not quite. He has guest starred in several classic Australian television dramas over many years and has been at the high end of the comedy circuit in Melbourne since the nineties.  His hilarious new show One Small Trip takes us on a wild and wacky journey to the moon, along with his  bunch of loony misfits.

Daniels delivers iconic Australian humour with his cast of stalwart favourites, beginning with Old Swampy, a homeless Footscray resident who loves his footy and barracks for the dogs. He meets and greets the audience with humble bogan zeal and introduces us to the new show that heralds the fifty years since the landing of the moon.

While landing on Mars might be the new buzz, Swampy and his entourage including his druggie son Terry are clunking there way into space in the Cuttle Shark space shuttle. Zaak, a middle-aged man with a rare ageing disease, looks like a thirteen year old techno wiz kid. Chuck the hologram is the yankee that guides them across into an arsehole control moon landing that sees them fighting aliens and fumbling their way back to earth. Graham Clone the electro- pop star joins the oddball crew, hits the space waves and grooves his mutations while shaking his crazy stardust into the nearest black hole.

Daniels has a real knack of morphing in and out of his characters, delivering snappy one-liners that address the current social-political climate between space travel and ground control. He is sometimes witty and occasionally below the belt but he is always damn funny.  

Flora Georgiou 

Photographer: Rhys Auteri