Andrew J. Lederer

ran into andy ofiesh of the gilded balloon's naked comedy showcase hangin' with the underbelly's walsh bros. outside the not-yet-open purple cow last night. andy looked beautiful, like he's on top of the world. the walshes looked excited.

today, ran into melbourne comedy festival boss susan provan's husband mickey outside the in-the process-of being-assembled gilded balloon. he accompanies phil nichol and steven k. amos and has been to singapore since i saw him just over a week ago in montreal. i basically went to sleep and came here in that time while he's lived an additional life.

steve ullathorne was also at the balloon. he's usually not here at the beginning of the fest but his photos will be on display at the gilded, so he was setting things up and seemed exhilarated. (he's also producing barry cryer's ronnie-goldenless show.)

tony woods seems lonely.

new york's "dangerous" rick shapiro (this year's doug stanhope, according to some) seems ready to discover and take on new worlds (but needed to be shown how to use the weird edinburgh showers).

leon from spank! seems creatively ambitious.

and i'm at the good, ol' forest cafe, using the intermittent but free wi-fi.


it is begun.