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Award-winning KIDS comedy set to make you laugh out loud!
ROFLSHALBOWCO = Rolling On The Floor Laughing So Hard A Little Bit Of Wee Comes Out
Think of it like stand-up comedy for kids. A bonkers comedy extravaganza of epic proportions jam packed with magically stupid gags, tricks, jokes, stunts, and silliness guaranteed to make anyone laugh, even the parents!
Gratuitous, ridiculous, hilarious, joyous and possibly hazardous, Rich and Matt are The Listies, Australia’s maestros of kidult comedy, a multi-award winning due who win over everyone who comes to see them with their insane, interactive, illogical and irreverent escapades.
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Cast & Creatives
Cast:
Matthew Kelly
Richard Higgins
are The Listies.
Bio:
Rich and Matt met way back in the dinosaur times (in the early aughties), performing in kids theatre shows by the likes of Andy Griffiths and Roald Dahl
in shows like: Just Disgusting, The Day My Bum went Psycho and The Twits. Rich played Mr Twit and Matt played Mrs Twit. They were directed by a kids
theatre genius called Lynne Ellis.
Millions of years passed, ices ages came and went. And then one day they thought they should make a comedy show together and put it in the Melbourne Fringe.
Rich wrote a title on his hand and registered them for 5 shows. Influenced by classic comedy duos like Los Trio Ringbarkus, Lano and Woodley, Morecombe
and Wise, Terrance and Phillip, Spongebob and Patrick, Tim and Eric, French and Saunders, they made an absurdist, double act show for adults all about
lists. It was called The List Operators. It won them Melbourne Comedy Festival’s coveted Golden Gibbo award for best independent show. They toured
it for a year and then in 2009 they made a show for KIDULTS (kids and their adults) called The List Operators for Kids: More Fun than a Wii!. Even
though it was a very, very long title it was the first kids show ever to be nominated for the Melbourne Comedy Festival ‘Barry’ (best show) award.
Rich and Matt toured Wii for two years. And shortened their name, in order to be able to fit it on a rubber stamp, becoming The Listies in 2010.
Since then Matt and Rich have had enormous fun performing to lovely people all over the world. They’ve played high-flying, glamorous locations like London, Sydney Opera House, Kuala Lumpur, South Korea, Edinburgh and even Wollongong. And they made a bunch more shows: The Listies Do Compooters, Earworms, 6D (Twice as Good as 3D), The Listies Make U LOL, The Listies Ruin Xmas, Hamlet Prince of Skidmark (co-created with and directed by Declan Greene) recorded two comedy albums, Drive U Crazy! and Go Bananas and have written two books with Penguin, Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting New Words, and it’s sequel Ickyfoodia: The Ultimate Guide to Disgusting Food in 2017.
www.thelisties.com
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Reviews
No-one else does comedy for kids this brilliantly, and what’s more the adults have just as much fun! Sydney Morning Herald
When I saw The Listies, it affected my thinking because I really related to the comedy craft they were exercising…it got me a little bit excited to realise that when you are performing for kids, it’s just as delicate and just as sophisticated. Frank Woodley, The Australian
If the Wiggles are the Eagles then the Listies are the Sex Pistols. Dave O’Neil, The Age
Australian duo the Listies have conquered children’s comedy through deep respect for their audience, with a focus on the subversion of the adult desire for control — with hilarious results. Sue Giles, The Australian
Absolutely delicious! A Tiger
If your kids have never been to the theatre before, do them a favour and make this their first experience. It’s something they will never forget. The Scotsman
The Listies are a comedy duo who have made a very successful career out of appealing to, well not only the little kid in all of us, but the grubby, grubby little kid in all of us. Virginia Trioli, ABC News Breakfast
Too silly. Oscar, 5.
