October 21, 2025 • 4 mins
Wil Anderson joins Jonesy & Amanda to chat about his brand new improv show, Whatchu Talkin' 'Bout Wil?
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nationill Anderson has written a new
stand up show every year since his Melbourne comedy debut
in nineteen ninety seven. There's a lot of jokes, it's
a lot of writing this time. Well, he's touring one
hundred percent improvised show, no writing, lazy lazy, one hundred.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Percent Will Brow That's right, Hello, Will? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Is? You don't? What I enjoy about this, Amanda? Is
that a lot of people when they think about what
I'm doing this year, they've said, that's an amazing creative
feat that you've done in eighty completely unique shows, different
every night, like incredible creativity. But you have, as usual,
seen to the absolute heart of it, which is for
twenty nine years, I ruined my summer by having to
write a stand up show and for once I said,
(00:53):
you know what, I'd rather just improvise on the spot
rather than prepare anything.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And that's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sounds like an everyone's terrifying nightmare. To make it up
every night you're just going to sort of point at
some of the audiences say look at your hair. I'll
do an hour on that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, that's basically it is a version of that. Although
I don't like to make fun of anybody in the show,
it's to make fun with people. In fact, often I'm
the person who's the butt of the joke. That's the
difference thing between doing a show like this and doing
your regular show. I was in Orange a couple of
weeks ago, and if you're going to Orange to do
this show, traditionally you'd research Orange and you come up
(01:28):
with a whole bunch of jokes about the local area.
What I found about this show is instead, you go
in with curiosity. So instead of preparing and telling them
something they hear all the time about their town. Because
you've done a little bit of research, you go in
and you start asking questions. And the great thing is
it can almost sometimes feel like the entire town is
playing a prank on you. So I was having a
conversation in an Orange with a woman in the front row,
(01:50):
and I was like, now, you're not famous for oranges though, right, Like,
you don't grow oranges here, and you go, oh, don't
you know what we grow here? And I was like, no,
I don't know what you grow here. And then the
whole audience just started to titter, because of course they
all know the answer to where you're going, and I
didn't know. Did you know the main industry in Orange
is apples? Is that not the best bit of information
that you had heard? That The town slogan of Orange
(02:13):
used to be she'll be apples in Orange. They go
apples in Orange, And that is one of those things
that would have been phone for me to discover and
bring to there. But of course they all know that
and would have like gone, yes, we know, we do
it all the time. But this show changes that entire
balance between performer and audience in that you can ask
them questions and then let the audience shape the shop.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
This is great, And you're coming to us right now
from Melbourne. A man is going down to Melbourne on
the weekend. You're doing a bit of work down there.
Hush hush. But when I read the newspapers daily, it
sounds like the Melbourne has slipped into the crime capital
of the world. Like it's sounding like Madrid. Actually, now
Madrid's good. What's a really bad place? One as Aris? Okay, okay,
it sounds like one as Arias. Is that true? Will?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah? I mean it is true. You know, I've just
seen comedians out on there on the street, robbing other comedians,
stealing their jokes. Views is going from town to like
you're holding down a Tommy Little. I saw it in
the other day breaking in their head of gains his
house show called Manette, which I don't think is something
that they will be doing next year. So yeah, I
(03:15):
do think there is a lot of comedy crimes on
the streets of Melbourne at the moment.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How would Hughesy go? You get robbed by Hughsey, It'll
be late, I came, mate, what do you got?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Do you think he's holding a chainsaw to you?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, but I've got this backut of snakes alive, but
if you don't behave yourself, they'll be dead.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well mate, we always like catching up with you and
I'm looking forward to this show because you can do anything.
You can do anything, any anything you want to know.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You show audience.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I know your shows always have quirky titles. This one
what you're talking about? Will I love it works out?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, thank you, and yes, a great respect to the
TV show Different strokes that I absolutely loved what I
was going up, so it takes different strokes.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But also no one remembers it, so it just sounds
like you've come up with it. Bro. You've stolen already,
You've robbed your audience before you've started.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I mean, you are real. You set up here. If
I stole from you, I'd be stealing something that was
already stolen. So you can't say anything.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Of course, Will I always like seeing you. For tickets
to your information, head to comedy dot com Dota you
will Anderson, Thank you
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Thank you very much,
Jersey and Amanda jam Nationill Anderson has written a new
stand up show every year since his Melbourne comedy debut
in nineteen ninety seven. There's a lot of jokes, it's
a lot of writing this time. Well, he's touring one
hundred percent improvised show, no writing, lazy lazy, one hundred.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Percent Will Brow That's right, Hello, Will? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Is? You don't? What I enjoy about this, Amanda? Is
that a lot of people when they think about what
I'm doing this year, they've said, that's an amazing creative
feat that you've done in eighty completely unique shows, different
every night, like incredible creativity. But you have, as usual,
seen to the absolute heart of it, which is for
twenty nine years, I ruined my summer by having to
write a stand up show and for once I said,
(00:53):
you know what, I'd rather just improvise on the spot
rather than prepare anything.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And that's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sounds like an everyone's terrifying nightmare. To make it up
every night you're just going to sort of point at
some of the audiences say look at your hair. I'll
do an hour on that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, that's basically it is a version of that. Although
I don't like to make fun of anybody in the show,
it's to make fun with people. In fact, often I'm
the person who's the butt of the joke. That's the
difference thing between doing a show like this and doing
your regular show. I was in Orange a couple of
weeks ago, and if you're going to Orange to do
this show, traditionally you'd research Orange and you come up
(01:28):
with a whole bunch of jokes about the local area.
What I found about this show is instead, you go
in with curiosity. So instead of preparing and telling them
something they hear all the time about their town. Because
you've done a little bit of research, you go in
and you start asking questions. And the great thing is
it can almost sometimes feel like the entire town is
playing a prank on you. So I was having a
conversation in an Orange with a woman in the front row,
(01:50):
and I was like, now, you're not famous for oranges though, right, Like,
you don't grow oranges here, and you go, oh, don't
you know what we grow here? And I was like, no,
I don't know what you grow here. And then the
whole audience just started to titter, because of course they
all know the answer to where you're going, and I
didn't know. Did you know the main industry in Orange
is apples? Is that not the best bit of information
that you had heard? That The town slogan of Orange
(02:13):
used to be she'll be apples in Orange. They go
apples in Orange, And that is one of those things
that would have been phone for me to discover and
bring to there. But of course they all know that
and would have like gone, yes, we know, we do
it all the time. But this show changes that entire
balance between performer and audience in that you can ask
them questions and then let the audience shape the shop.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
This is great, And you're coming to us right now
from Melbourne. A man is going down to Melbourne on
the weekend. You're doing a bit of work down there.
Hush hush. But when I read the newspapers daily, it
sounds like the Melbourne has slipped into the crime capital
of the world. Like it's sounding like Madrid. Actually, now
Madrid's good. What's a really bad place? One as Aris? Okay, okay,
it sounds like one as Arias. Is that true? Will?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah? I mean it is true. You know, I've just
seen comedians out on there on the street, robbing other comedians,
stealing their jokes. Views is going from town to like
you're holding down a Tommy Little. I saw it in
the other day breaking in their head of gains his
house show called Manette, which I don't think is something
that they will be doing next year. So yeah, I
(03:15):
do think there is a lot of comedy crimes on
the streets of Melbourne at the moment.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How would Hughesy go? You get robbed by Hughsey, It'll
be late, I came, mate, what do you got?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Do you think he's holding a chainsaw to you?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, but I've got this backut of snakes alive, but
if you don't behave yourself, they'll be dead.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well mate, we always like catching up with you and
I'm looking forward to this show because you can do anything.
You can do anything, any anything you want to know.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You show audience.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I know your shows always have quirky titles. This one
what you're talking about? Will I love it works out?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, thank you, and yes, a great respect to the
TV show Different strokes that I absolutely loved what I
was going up, so it takes different strokes.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But also no one remembers it, so it just sounds
like you've come up with it. Bro. You've stolen already,
You've robbed your audience before you've started.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I mean, you are real. You set up here. If
I stole from you, I'd be stealing something that was
already stolen. So you can't say anything.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Of course, Will I always like seeing you. For tickets
to your information, head to comedy dot com Dota you
will Anderson, Thank you
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Thank you very much,
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