Becky Lucas proves herself to not only be very funny, but a master of off-the-cuff audience banter.
Home-grown comedian Becky Lucas took the Visy stage by storm on the first night of her new show, 'My Neck, My Back'. The significance of this name will become uncomfortably clear by the end of the show!Lucas’ show revolves around how hard life is, with a self-aware look at such hardships as suffering through bridesmaids’ speeches, sisters, icky conversations with your parents, finding a passion, and your boyfriend’s bong habit. It is very, very funny stuff. Lucas has a strong comedic point of view, and has very much found her voice. You can identify a Becky Lucas set, which is a great thing.
It was really wonderful to have a Brisbane-born comedian on stage, and to take full advantage of the resulting banter. The absolute highlight was when she was ragging on private school boys, and noted that one side of the room wasn’t finding her jokes as funny as the other side. She asked if there were any private school boys in that side, and one called out, “Yeah, Villanova”. Lucas immediately shot back “Does that count? Borderline”. The rest of the audience almost died laughing.
Her audience heckling skills were put to good use on the night, as a group of 19-year-olds (they divulged their age to the exasperated Lucas) seemed to have indulged a bit too much at the bar beforehand, and had broken their collective seal. They kept getting up to go to the toilet, exiting through wrong doors, being chased by ushers. . .
Lucas only broke stride to gently make fun of them, incorporating their antics into her show. A lesser comic would have gotten utterly distracted and put off, or their audience would have. It was a pretty challenging set, but Lucas rocked it out.
★★★★★
