The Show: Wankernomics Show V4.1 _Final_UseThis
The Event: Melbourne Comedy Festival
The Space: The Athenaeum Theatre, Collins Street
Stars: 4
Until 5 April (although their tour goes around Australia. See their website for details.)
I go to the Comedy Festival with one particular friend, who I tend only to see at the Comedy Festival, then we catch up the following year. The conversation flows, even though we only see each other annually. I let her choose the shows. Having the reputation of going to the opening of an envelope and the ability to laugh at most things, it's a good trade off. We will have dinner at China Red, where you don't have to interact with wait staff - using the electronic pad to do the ordering. And I, of course, will have chilli wantons, because they are ambrosial and add to the meaning of life.
Anyway, tonight we went and saw the Chaser boys do their new show, Wankernomics Show V4.1 _Final_UseThis.
If you work in, or have worked in, any sort of corporate environment, you WILL be triggered. James Schloeffel and Charles Firth provide an hour of merriment as they navigate the current corporate jargon environment, from the technology of reviews (What did you think of our service?) to people on LinkedIn (Oh, shite, not that dude again), to agitators, thought leaders, to the shitfuckery that is the modern office, where consultants are paid more to conceive the build that the people actually doing the job.
James' bio on the website says a lot. It has the following paragraph:
'A renowned transformational strategist and growth alchemist, he has a proven track record of formulating results-focused, forward-thinking, environmentally-aware, value-driven, outcomes-centred, solution-led hyphenated adjectives, and putting them into complex sentences that at first seem impressive, but then just trail off at the..."
Having spent the last six months working on a technology project aligned to an HR function a lot of this was utterly relatable. It's all the stuff I roll my eyes at and find myself biting my tongue over. Like speak English and go stick your value statement up your bum! It's a matter of tolerating this behaviour to survive. But it's great to laugh at it. Oh, and they're still taking the piss out of Arts graduates (Mine's a double espresso...)
And it's based around the concept of Death by Powerpoint.
Yes, this is a bit triggering if you work in a multi-national filled with consultants, the "Big 4" and back to back meetings, where people have non-sensical job titles.
It's also the perfect piss take.
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