Get It Into Ya! - Tom Gleeson

Get It Into Ya!  - Tom Gleeson
Sydney Comedy Store - Entertainment Quarter (NSW). Nov 10 – 21.

In what seems like an awfully quick one hour. Tom Gleeson takes us on a rollicking ride of personal stories - everything from moving into a former morgue in Romsey, Victoria, to stories about the village oddball who knocks on people’s doors late at night announcing “Where’s Jeff?” (you have to see the show to ‘get it’). Gleeson has us wrapped around his animated little finger from the word go.

The hysterical, slap-your-knee, throw-your-head-back with laughter climax is when Gleeson snarls and yells with a bright red face of frustration, the true story of the skin cancer ‘lesion’ on his head and the posted letter of diagnosis he received from “Dr Skinner.” He expresses his anxiety over said lesion with such anger, veins popping and rock-star like maneuvers - the crowd just roars.

Gleeson’s Get It Into Ya!show is presented in the intimate setting of the Sydney Comedy Store. He engages the audience right off the bat, finding out who the youngest member of the audience is and having a bit of a casual chat with her and familiarising himself with fellow ‘baldies.’ He has that appealing energy and vibe of the ‘he’s just a mate in a bar’ variety, who’s finished work (as he’s always donned in a shirt and tie), downed a few and then gets up and takes the floor to entertain his mates.

He is downright hilarious - really laugh out loud funny. He has a good stab at people in general including asking us what we think of Gillard, to which people were very lukewarm...he’s not overly offensive or overly gross like some comedians; he is sharp and sophisticated with a pinch of below-the-belt humor.

I really would have enjoyed another half hour or so of Tom Gleeson, he’s great to watch and when it comes down to it, is there really anything better than having a good laugh?

Emma Bell

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