The Wrestling

“Comedians! Wrestlers!  Blood!” Max and Ivan have bought their award winning, high energy, wrestling show to the Comedy Festival where it features a cast of local comedians and pro wrestlers coming to blows and mixing it big time in the ring.

There is a high level of skill required to throw yourself and an opponent around and not get hurt. These comedians were impressive with their wrestling moves and had the crowd entertained from the start. The three bouts pitted pro-wrestlers against each other, a mixed tag team match and an all in brawl as a finale.

While the wrestling action was entertaining and well rehearsed this did not appear to be the case with the MC, the wrestling commentators, and the music.  There was a battle as the MC introduced wrestlers while the very loud music continued unchecked.  Another example was loud music as a wrestler was carried in on a chair and moved into position. He picked up a microphone and had to yell his lines over the music. The MC and the 2 commentators talked over each other so much that most of the commentary, presumably funny, was lost in a garble of voices.

But the audience came to see the wrestling and left happy. Just as the show in Edinburgh came back bigger and better I think we will see the return of The Wrestling to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.  Look out for it in the future.

Shirley Jensen