February 26, 2024 • 8 mins
Comedian Stephen K. Amos joins the show and we chat to him about his involvement in this year's Adelaide Fringe and what we can expect to see and hear from this wonderfully talented and charismatic man.
Tickets to Stephen's shows:
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/stephen-k-amos-oxymoron-af2024
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mix one eighteen point threes frames, PHOEI Mix.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
One of two going through maxinally with you in the morning,
and we love bringing your fringe fixture of the coming
courtesy of one of the funniest, nicest men in the world,
Stephen k am I.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh wow, what a lovely welcome. Thank you, Maxi Andally
it's always great to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You love Adelaide to Phoebe, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You know, it's something about this city that keeps drawing
me back. I remember coming here years and years ago
when it was a bi annual festival, remember that, and
the fringe only once every couple of years, and there
was not much else going on, and the gardens was
one man, one tent and a dog. There were no
carni folk at all. But now we can get a
(00:43):
potato swave for fifteen dollars. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Don't even get me started on corn sir.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Ye how many times you've been here?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Oh my goodness, that's a very good question. I would
say it's probably at least fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So we're to point now where you can walk past
the place like Cornstar and I'll get all right. Stephen
will knock five bucks off the price for it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
If anything, they increase the price. Yeah, you've got some
ticket selles, so give us some of that money.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, you're so famous, surely you're coming to Australia Travis
Kelsey style and your private git.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm not quite tay, but no, I do travel. That's
one thing. If I'm traveling for work, I need to
be I'd like to be comfortable. Yeah, because because I
come here and I hit the ground running. I don't
come and have like three days holiday and then I
come here and they have one day then I start.
So if I'm coming I'm six for two, I can't be.
I can't be sitting up for a twenty four hour flight.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
God.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So what is first class or business class or whatever
the class is where you go lift? What is it like?
Is it everything else? Plubs dream off?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh you know, yes, you know on some of the
aircraft there's actually a shower on board. Yes, I said
a shower.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Do you feel the need to shower thirty thousand feet
in the air.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I schound about four times because I can, and I
think myself, where does all this water go? Are the
people in economy and coach? They've got to drink something.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But your show this time around is oxymoron. Now what's
an oxymoron?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Right? Okay? Well, the Dictionary definition of oxymoron is a
self contradictory phrase, a bit like when English English people
say things, oh he's awfully good, or or in my
case a serious comedian that's moron or a nice one.
Is a cruel kindness, kindness And to give you an
(02:46):
example of that in action today, that be like me
saying to you that your hasty will never suit you.
I mean, obviously your day has taken a downward spiral,
your confidence has taken a hit. It's cruel, it is.
But more importantly, you'll sort your hair out.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You aren't helping me in the long run.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That sounds like exactly how my mother brought me up
every day.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
All are you sure you want to wear that?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Ally?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So what do we expecting the show? I imagine just
not to do giving oxymorons for an hour or two?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh wow? So well no, that would be very very boring. Basically,
I just kind of I kind of just plow through
jokes and laughter. That's while we're there, I say to
the audience, you know, is there anything you what you've
come to to watch comedy show. You haven't come to
see a comedian with an opinion. You know, can stand
up comedy, fun time, stand up opinion refund time. So
(03:46):
what we try and do. I try and get the
audience all in a good mood, all lightened up, and
then we just do jokes and I do throw in
the odd oxymoron, like a minor crisis for example, old news,
good one. You know, there's so many to think about
them that's swelling around the world. And what brought this
to the forefront of my mind was the kind of
things that have happened post pandemic. Not that I want
(04:10):
to harp on about the pandemic, all went through it together,
but they seem to have reinvented things that we didn't
have a problem with in the first place. And one
of my bugbears at the moment is the whole q
R code for everything. Yeah, yes, yeah. So I do
a little routine about BANDI and we order and you
can see the audience going aha, laughing, nodding along. And
(04:31):
then sometimes I'm quite free stylish as well, because it's
a nice intimate space in the gardens and I kind
of allow for stuff to happen in the room, and
last night, I mean so typically Australian, it's never happened
in the front row. There's a couple and about forty
minutes in one of them left the front road to
go to the back of the room. Now everyone can
(04:52):
see this person leave, and so I have to address it.
And so I said, oh, I hope that person's okay.
There's nothing wrong. I was talking to the person left
in the front and the person the back shouted from
the back room. I don't worry, Steve, It's just that
my ass hurt from sitting on the chair.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
So comedy, stay for the comfortable.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Chairs and please tell me you then rift into first
classes flying. Hey, Stephen ka, I must stick around. We
want to come back and ask you about all things
crossword if that's okay. Oh all right, we're in the
middle of a fringe fix. So Mix one or two
point three with Max Andally and none other than Stephen
k Amos. His show is Oxymoron and he's playing at
(05:34):
the Box if you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know, of course the box, which you're really surprised
because I've never been in a box before in my life,
and it feels really weird because I'm claustrophobic as well.
There's a proper square box. But the good thing about
this particular venue is that back in the back a
couple of years ago was near the front of the gardens.
I'm right by the other end now where there's a
(05:58):
ferries weed.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
All those and the quiller, but just around the corner
from the clown.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
She would know this is a few of the County
operators roll into your show, the fairest wheel operators.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, because I'm sure they're very busy. But I walked
past that and they they they delicately asked me if
want to have a goal, and I try and respond
with a plate not today, because I have no desire
for a massive fluffy toy in my life or to
try and pick up a dog with a stick or
(06:35):
a duck and water that.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Wow, you haven't lived, honestly. In preparations today, we're doing
a bit of Instagram stalking, because that's what you do
when you speak to any one. Noted that not just once,
but two, three, maybe four times on your Instagram you've
posted people have sent you where you are the answer
to a crossword clue. Yeah, and that's got to be
(06:58):
pretty much like the biggest thing you can do, You've
made it when you're in a crossword right, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Not even joking. I lost my mind, Max, seriously, because
I don't go looking out for these things.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've got some friends of mine, some comics and some
you know, other quite entertaining type people, and they google
search their own names. I mean, who does that runs
the recipe for disaster? So people send me, oh, do
you know you're a crossword clue in the New York Times.
I'm like, what that is called?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You made it?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, I think I've made it. So what I'm doing
in Adelaide, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It's nice for you to hang out with us common folks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We have it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Do we have a crossword clue? See if you can
work out the answer whilst flying in economy? Who's shower water?
Did you drink? Yes? The man step Of course, if
you've just tuned in, you won't understand that. So find
us on demand, get to iHeartRadio for the Maximelle in
the Morning podcast. But in the meantime, go and see
(07:58):
Stephen Kamos oxymoorant well know he the show is, yeah,
the show, Yeah, the show is he's the nicest bloke
in the world. He's playing all the way through the
end of this week, so you better carry up and
get in quicker. You can get tickets at Fringe ticks
dot com dot AU and say hi to corn stars
for us.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Oh my goodness, you know what if I known you'd
love them so much? Or to bring some with me
so exciting, but maybe tomorrow' send you some potatoes.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well and a fluffy dog.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I love you the way, love the episode, Share the
love on your socials and tag Mix one O two three,
leaver of you and subscribe so you never miss a
Mix one O two point three. Fringe Figs explore Australia's
biggest arts festival, Adelaide Fringe Feb sixteen to March seventeen.
Tickets at Adelaide Fringe dot com dot areu
Mix one eighteen point threes frames, PHOEI Mix.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
One of two going through maxinally with you in the morning,
and we love bringing your fringe fixture of the coming
courtesy of one of the funniest, nicest men in the world,
Stephen k am I.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh wow, what a lovely welcome. Thank you, Maxi Andally
it's always great to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You love Adelaide to Phoebe, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You know, it's something about this city that keeps drawing
me back. I remember coming here years and years ago
when it was a bi annual festival, remember that, and
the fringe only once every couple of years, and there
was not much else going on, and the gardens was
one man, one tent and a dog. There were no
carni folk at all. But now we can get a
(00:43):
potato swave for fifteen dollars. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Don't even get me started on corn sir.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Ye how many times you've been here?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Oh my goodness, that's a very good question. I would
say it's probably at least fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So we're to point now where you can walk past
the place like Cornstar and I'll get all right. Stephen
will knock five bucks off the price for it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
If anything, they increase the price. Yeah, you've got some
ticket selles, so give us some of that money.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, you're so famous, surely you're coming to Australia Travis
Kelsey style and your private git.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm not quite tay, but no, I do travel. That's
one thing. If I'm traveling for work, I need to
be I'd like to be comfortable. Yeah, because because I
come here and I hit the ground running. I don't
come and have like three days holiday and then I
come here and they have one day then I start.
So if I'm coming I'm six for two, I can't be.
I can't be sitting up for a twenty four hour flight.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
God.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So what is first class or business class or whatever
the class is where you go lift? What is it like?
Is it everything else? Plubs dream off?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh you know, yes, you know on some of the
aircraft there's actually a shower on board. Yes, I said
a shower.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Do you feel the need to shower thirty thousand feet
in the air.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I schound about four times because I can, and I
think myself, where does all this water go? Are the
people in economy and coach? They've got to drink something.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But your show this time around is oxymoron. Now what's
an oxymoron?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Right? Okay? Well, the Dictionary definition of oxymoron is a
self contradictory phrase, a bit like when English English people
say things, oh he's awfully good, or or in my
case a serious comedian that's moron or a nice one.
Is a cruel kindness, kindness And to give you an
(02:46):
example of that in action today, that be like me
saying to you that your hasty will never suit you.
I mean, obviously your day has taken a downward spiral,
your confidence has taken a hit. It's cruel, it is.
But more importantly, you'll sort your hair out.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You aren't helping me in the long run.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That sounds like exactly how my mother brought me up
every day.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
All are you sure you want to wear that?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Ally?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So what do we expecting the show? I imagine just
not to do giving oxymorons for an hour or two?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh wow? So well no, that would be very very boring. Basically,
I just kind of I kind of just plow through
jokes and laughter. That's while we're there, I say to
the audience, you know, is there anything you what you've
come to to watch comedy show. You haven't come to
see a comedian with an opinion. You know, can stand
up comedy, fun time, stand up opinion refund time. So
(03:46):
what we try and do. I try and get the
audience all in a good mood, all lightened up, and
then we just do jokes and I do throw in
the odd oxymoron, like a minor crisis for example, old news,
good one. You know, there's so many to think about
them that's swelling around the world. And what brought this
to the forefront of my mind was the kind of
things that have happened post pandemic. Not that I want
(04:10):
to harp on about the pandemic, all went through it together,
but they seem to have reinvented things that we didn't
have a problem with in the first place. And one
of my bugbears at the moment is the whole q
R code for everything. Yeah, yes, yeah. So I do
a little routine about BANDI and we order and you
can see the audience going aha, laughing, nodding along. And
(04:31):
then sometimes I'm quite free stylish as well, because it's
a nice intimate space in the gardens and I kind
of allow for stuff to happen in the room, and
last night, I mean so typically Australian, it's never happened
in the front row. There's a couple and about forty
minutes in one of them left the front road to
go to the back of the room. Now everyone can
(04:52):
see this person leave, and so I have to address it.
And so I said, oh, I hope that person's okay.
There's nothing wrong. I was talking to the person left
in the front and the person the back shouted from
the back room. I don't worry, Steve, It's just that
my ass hurt from sitting on the chair.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
So comedy, stay for the comfortable.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Chairs and please tell me you then rift into first
classes flying. Hey, Stephen ka, I must stick around. We
want to come back and ask you about all things
crossword if that's okay. Oh all right, we're in the
middle of a fringe fix. So Mix one or two
point three with Max Andally and none other than Stephen
k Amos. His show is Oxymoron and he's playing at
(05:34):
the Box if you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know, of course the box, which you're really surprised
because I've never been in a box before in my life,
and it feels really weird because I'm claustrophobic as well.
There's a proper square box. But the good thing about
this particular venue is that back in the back a
couple of years ago was near the front of the gardens.
I'm right by the other end now where there's a
(05:58):
ferries weed.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
All those and the quiller, but just around the corner
from the clown.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
She would know this is a few of the County
operators roll into your show, the fairest wheel operators.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, because I'm sure they're very busy. But I walked
past that and they they they delicately asked me if
want to have a goal, and I try and respond
with a plate not today, because I have no desire
for a massive fluffy toy in my life or to
try and pick up a dog with a stick or
(06:35):
a duck and water that.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Wow, you haven't lived, honestly. In preparations today, we're doing
a bit of Instagram stalking, because that's what you do
when you speak to any one. Noted that not just once,
but two, three, maybe four times on your Instagram you've
posted people have sent you where you are the answer
to a crossword clue. Yeah, and that's got to be
(06:58):
pretty much like the biggest thing you can do, You've
made it when you're in a crossword right, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Not even joking. I lost my mind, Max, seriously, because
I don't go looking out for these things.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've got some friends of mine, some comics and some
you know, other quite entertaining type people, and they google
search their own names. I mean, who does that runs
the recipe for disaster? So people send me, oh, do
you know you're a crossword clue in the New York Times.
I'm like, what that is called?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You made it?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, I think I've made it. So what I'm doing
in Adelaide, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It's nice for you to hang out with us common folks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We have it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Do we have a crossword clue? See if you can
work out the answer whilst flying in economy? Who's shower water?
Did you drink? Yes? The man step Of course, if
you've just tuned in, you won't understand that. So find
us on demand, get to iHeartRadio for the Maximelle in
the Morning podcast. But in the meantime, go and see
(07:58):
Stephen Kamos oxymoorant well know he the show is, yeah,
the show, Yeah, the show is he's the nicest bloke
in the world. He's playing all the way through the
end of this week, so you better carry up and
get in quicker. You can get tickets at Fringe ticks
dot com dot AU and say hi to corn stars
for us.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Oh my goodness, you know what if I known you'd
love them so much? Or to bring some with me
so exciting, but maybe tomorrow' send you some potatoes.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well and a fluffy dog.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I love you the way, love the episode, Share the
love on your socials and tag Mix one O two three,
leaver of you and subscribe so you never miss a
Mix one O two point three. Fringe Figs explore Australia's
biggest arts festival, Adelaide Fringe Feb sixteen to March seventeen.
Tickets at Adelaide Fringe dot com dot areu
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