Green, green sounds of home

HAVING

headlined some of Jokers Comedy Club’s milestone events, award-winning British comedian Jeff Green returns to Hobart for another big night of laughs on Wednesday.

Green performed at the club’s opening four years ago, then at its 100th show in 2017.

This time he will bring his festival show, Letters Home, a series of warm and hilarious monologues to his family back in England.

Between 1947 and 1982 more than a million people, known as the “10 Pound Poms’’, travelled from the UK and Ireland to Australia as part of the Ten Pound Assisted Passage Scheme. Long before email, texts, cheap phone calls and Skype, these migrants kept in touch with their loved ones back home by sending letter and postcard requests to a BBC radio show.

Green and his family listened to the kitchen radio through every Sunday lunch as the music mingled with the smell of the roast being cooked. With requests from people living in exotically named places abroad, Green wondered what they looked like and imagined the Australian countryside he’d seen on TV shows such as Skippy.

Green’s new show pays homage to those memories and is laced with plenty of ridiculous, silly comedy.

Catch Jeff Green at Jokers Comedy Club at the Polish Corner, New Town, on Wednesday, supported by Mick Davies, Gavin Baskerville and more.

Doors open at 7.30pm. Tickets are $25 at the door if not sold out, or $23 pre-sale plus a booking fee at www.jokerscomedy.com.au/ bookings or the Theatre Royal box office.

Jeff Green will also play Funnies at Franks at Frank’s Cider Bar and Cafe, Franklin, next Thursday (June 27), supported by Mick Lowenstein, Brittany Szlezak and David Moore.

Doors open at 6.30pm and tickets are $24 at the door if not sold out, or $23 pre-sale plus a booking fee at www.trybooking.com