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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's time to meet Eloise f Doos Now. Elouise, in
her promotional material, describes herself as Australia's first attractive comedian.
She also describes herself as a feminist, fembot and fully
fledged superstar. Eloise Fos is as expressive and as radiant
(00:37):
as it comes hitious.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So Apart from being Australia's first attractive comedian.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'm also an actress.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah, thank you, I I do don't believe me.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I don't know if you guys know this, but actress
is actually the latinord for insecure waitress. Someone told her
the other day and I was like, oh no, being
a waitress isn't too bad. It' karl like stand up
you know, you get to talk to people that you'd
never talk to alive.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
You go.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
As she started off as a theater in Perth, she
found a groove in acting and then stand up comedy.
She since appeared in projects like Colin from Accounts, Paper
Dolls and Limitless. She's also a regular panelist on the
project and now she's heading to the New Zealand International
Comedy Festival, with the show diving into modern dating and
women's sexual liberation, and Eloise after us joins me. Now,
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good morning to you. Eloise.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Hello, how are you? Thank you so much for having me?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Very good? Oh you did a ka.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
That's what you guys say, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
From time to time. And let's start with this Australia's
first attractive comedian thing, because what does it even? What
does it even mean to you? Time Out gave you
that title. It seems reductive, but it also seems like
you've gone out and reclaimed it.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well. I actually called myself this first, and it really
upset people. And I found that very fascinating, and because
obviously I was joking and being a bit cheeky by
calling myself Australia's first attractive comedian, but I found the
response to it from audiences and from other comedians very
very fascinating. And yeah, I made a whole show about it,
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and my debut show is about that and about you know,
why do we have to put ourselves down as women
to be seen as attractive? Why is being a confident
woman that knows she's funny and attractive and smart. Why
is that so confronting to people? I don't do self
deprecating humor, so it's really Yeah, it's really fun. And
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to be like that on stage, to not put yourself
down on stay, I think it's important, especially for a woman.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know, it's a little it's a little cruel on
New Zealand's Melanie Bracewell, who was demonstrably attractive and Zealand.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I never said New Zealand never And I never said.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, what about Magda from Kath and Kim, who is
demonstrably attractive to some people?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, no, but I never said female. I said, supposed
to tractic to being compared to all of them, all
of them. Yeah, I am the first attractive because I
because I know it. Everybody else does selctiprecating humor except
Tom Gleason, he's an icon. But yeah, I'm I'm the
first attractive comedian because also, attractiveness isn't just look you
know that, right, It's also the fact that I'm funny
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and I'm smart, and I like to dress up when
I go on stage, and yeah, my humor, I don't
do self deprecating. I don't put myself down, and yeah,
I know it. That's why I call myself australia First
attractive Comedian.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, of course that is that is that's cruel to
fly to the Concords, who describe themselves as the fourth
beast comedy folk duo in New Zealand. And you know,
obviously if you if you claim the title of Australia's
fourth most fourth most attractive comedian, that would be self
deprecating and you don't do that.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I don't do that, no, and I think that it
is pretty groundbreaking as a woman to not do self
reprecating and that's why I think rubbed people the wrong way.
And I think that's why the title is very intelligent
because it grabs people's attention. And yes, if the show's
gone so well, I couldn't I couldn't believe the success
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that I've had, like to you know, take it overseas
and to be nominated to the Best Newcomer edinbro frames
it was crazy, you know, as the first Australian woman
to do that as well, it's eame. But I think
they're not as scared. I think we have really bad
tool poppy syndrome in Australia and I know New Zealand
has a little bit too, but in Australia, I think
it's really really bad.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I could have gone on that too, if you wanted
be boastful. I'm not suggesting that you are, but if
you did, you could have gone for Australia's first quadruple threat.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Because you're true, I could say that too.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You're an actor, singer, a dancer and a comedian. Not
enough to be a triple threat. You had to have four.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I had to have four. I'm a bit greedy like that.
I guess I like to be good at everything, but
that's a lot of years of training and stuff. Obviously,
I play a persona on stage that's very like I
could with threat, and I'm the best, but this is
a lot of hard work in the background, which is
also what my new show is about. My new show
is about my first stilia, first tractored comedian, basically about
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why I call myself this and the backlash that it got.
And then my part two of my trilogy is called Aphrodite,
and this show is about the consequences of playing with
the sona and that I don't believe love is real
and I don't know if I'll ever experience that I've
never fell in love woman and love so and is
that a result of being Australia's as attractive comedian.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It is, it is, obviously it is because you're so
damn attractive that puts everybody off.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Well, it's a bit Rida Hayworth you know, exactly, a
readA Hayworth energy. I talked about that in the show.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You know you're jumping the gun. Here we'll talk about
your show right after the break. My guest is Eloise
ef Doos, Australia's first attractive comedian male and female, and
she's back after the break here on News TALKSB News
Talks Be. My guest is Eloise Eftos, who is an
Australian comedian, not comedian comedian. That's interesting. It's also claims
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to be Australia's first attractive comedian male or female. Coming
to the International Comedy Festival. Now, the show, the show
is an interesting thing. You've already half described it. It's
time to win to Ephrodite's discotheque with a Goddess of
love takes you through a studio fifty four Mountain Olympus
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Fever Dream and she can hopefully teach us all the thing,
and two about the ultimate trophy, which is love. My god,
what were you on when you thought of that one?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Nothing? I just am really smart and creative, and I
love disco music. Do you like disco music?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Big your pardon?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Do you like disco music?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I love disco music. Who doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
It's the best. It's the best music. I think it's
the best era. And I think that I'm obsession with
Greek mythology, and I believe that if Aphrodite was to
make sure that everybody came together and felt love, she
would bring us all to her discothech. So when you
enter the show, you enter Aphrodite's disco tech and then
she kicks me out. And I performed the show, which
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I'm I'm not sure whether it's a comedy or Greek tragedy,
but oh it was right.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And see that was my next question. If you go
in all Greek on us, is it a comedy or
a tragedy? Is it a yes?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You'll have to see. Well that's a surprise, but I
hope it's a euphoric ending, because I, yeah, I like
to get people up to dance in this show, so
you can expect to laugh. Maybe cry, and definitely dance,
which is really really fun.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I get the feeling that we're going to hear Donna
Summer and I feel love.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Oh, yes, you've got that right, God, You're good. Yes.
And you might even hear a bit of love to
love you baby. You might even hear a bit of
Casey in the Sunshine Vand you might have hear a
bit of love and gay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So really yeah, So if you're not enjoying the laughs,
you can always just have a boogie.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, exactly, exactly. But I think that for me, what
the message of the show is like, I do talk
about modern dating, and I talk about you know, women's
sexual liberation. I will talk about my heritage as well
and how that affects these things. But I also think
what I hope the messages as well is like, I
don't think that I think we missed this time when
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back in the day we would meet on the dance Law,
we would meet people in person and we would connect
on the dance law. And I think we've lost that
art of you know, a beautiful time when yeah, we
were so disconnected more than ever in society, which I
think is quite sad.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
If you if you like dance music. There was a
song that came out during the COVID pandemic and it
was a sample thing and it was as funky yeahs.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
But the whole.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Chorus was we lost dance music, you know, because with
the COVID pandemic, we lost going out at night and
mentally getting together in a great group of people and
just letting go. So we lost dance absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Absolutely. Yeah, it's such a shame because I think that,
you know, we dance, like if we do dance, it's
more individually. But I just think as well, like we
need to bring back a bit of you know, connecting
with people in person, and I wish that we still
had that, and so this show is sort of me
trying to bring that back into about that and and yeah,
I hope it sort of makes people think, yeah, differently
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maybe about what love is. And even I don't know,
men respecting women, women respecting men, Like I think there's
a lot there. There's a lot in this show, but
it just did it involvement. It's upon really really well.
The response has been incredible.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There's another bid thing. There always is another big thing there.
You say, women respecting men and men respecting women, but
there's also women women respecting women, because sometimes women can
be women's exactly, which.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Is what I talk about in my first show a lot,
and in this sextor show way, I sort of bring
it up a bit too. But the first show I
definitely delve into that because yeah, there's a lot of misogyny,
a lot of ventilized misogyny, and yeah, I think like
my shows. I know you're yet to see one of them,
but my show is deal with a lot of big issues,
but I like to make them silly and fun, and yeah,
(10:01):
this one's a little bit more vulnerable though.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
This Yeah, it's also part two of a trilogy. Because
you you've said that, so you've got one, You've got
to is part three ready to go?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
So part three is not ready to go yet. I've
only just finished touring a world doing a world tour
of my first show, and so I'm this is obviously
everything's been very very you know, sort of one after
the other. So I sort of started writing this show
maybe end of last year, so only part two is
sort of just still developing really. So yeah, it's but
(10:35):
that's that's comedy. It it all changes and grows. It's
like it's like its own beast. You know, so I
can feel Part three, I can feel it manifesting. You know,
I can feel, I can feel something. But I think
all titles have to start with A and all of
them have to be set in the aesthetic is a
different era. Part one with sixties, Part two of seventies,
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and part three will be eighties.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Great great stuff. Well look, even if you haven't seen
part one, come and see part two. It's at the
New Zealand Comedy Festival. This woman's name is Elouise Efdos
market Down. She's wildly attractive.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
She told you exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Thank you and I thank you for your time this morning.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Thank you so so much.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And if we're very lucky, the producer might play a
little bit of Donna Summer I Feel Love, ken Z,
could you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Play I would love that?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
On you heard Eloise?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
That's quiet? Come on, it's such a banger.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Thank you, kem Z. So I've been talking to Eloise
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Shoes Australian.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
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