I have a massive crush on a felt-y purple puppet. As you might have guessed from my yelp picture, I'm a big fan of puppets and the performances from 'Randy' hit my favorite kind of puppetry - adult comedy, dark humor, and quality puppeteering. If you check out Randy's bio, it appears that I'm not the only fan, as he's gotten some great reviews and been nominated and/or won various festival award in Australia.
The performances are engaging and I am able to suspend my disbelief that I am watching what is essentially an inanimate lump of felt and foam. Instead I'm engrossed in Randy's character and story, or am just in pain from laughing about a puppet doing a physical comedy joke about eating fish sandwiches and oral sex. (Maybe you had to be there for that one.) I try to see a lot of shows during festivals like the Melbourne Fringe Festival and the International Comedy Festival (last year I saw over 60 shows during the Comedy Fest) and Randy was one of the top performers on my list. read more