I think that he has a fan base here, but it’s just different. I feel like, my friend Sam Simmons who is an Australian, he’d be called alternative here but in Australia he’s super popular, killing the game. I got introduced to the world of comedy when Amy Schumer took me out on the road a lot, and it’s just a slower awakening here. It’s still a lot of traditional stand-up here. I think that the evolution of stand-up is a lot slower than what it seems to be like in Australia. In the same way you’re talking about the old guard/new guard in cabaret, do you think the same thing is happening in comedy? It’s like, comedy doesn’t just have to be stand-up anymore, there’s all kinds of different funny things? That’s actually the next thing I was going to ask you. It’s singing and stories that also happen to be funny. People - at least here in the States - are thinking they’re going to a comedy show, and I feel like the comedy is secondary. Yeah, I’m always surprised when people come up to me after the show and they’re like “oh wow you’re a really good singer” and I’m like “yeah, no shit”. So do you still see yourself as more a singer than you are a comedian? Luckily for me, there was another genre, and I found that when I moved to New York. I wasn’t really cut out for either of those. And I was like ‘oh, you can be a singer and do this!’ You don’t just have to go to Broadway or be Britney Spears. The cabaret I was seeing was a lot of wild, late-night, crazy shit. I started going to see cabaret shows 15-20 years ago and I was like, ‘oh my god, this is the shit’.
I consider myself as a singer and that’s where I started.
I’m really interested in asking you about that - your thoughts on the intersection between music and comedy - what came first for you, was it music, or was it the funny stuff?
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