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March 5, 2024 11 mins

Fringe Fix - Ep 15: Comedian Wil Anderson In-Studio

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the official twenty twenty four Adelaide Fringe podcast
Mix one or two point threes Fringe Fees.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Explore Australia's biggest dance festival, Adelaide Fringe Feb sixteen to
March seventeen. Tickets at Adelaide Fringe dot com.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Donat you warning consuming this may make you put an
orange traffic cone on your head and go.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Look everyone on Harry Potter had away. If I was
going to the electricture, I would just bought a tug
of butter and then some unpopped corn.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
This is well, he is here in Adelaide for the Fringe.
Good morning mate.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I always love coming and doing the radio, and they
play clips through my show and they've had to go
back so far to find anything that is appropriate to
play on the radio, like they have to go back
twenty years, Like oh yeah, he's a clue.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
That's what we're just on that we need to declare
the elephant in the room because we didn't know that
because you're like one of the family in here.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, but starton.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Put In fact, I was able to just walk into
the studio without any of us.

Speaker 6 (01:08):
I've never felt so rude. Ali and I were both
staring at our phones and computers.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Someone open, well, Berjo the button pusher. We didn't know this,
but we didn't know that going back many years.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
You two were locked in immortal feud.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
You might not be able to remember it, but Burjo
can't sleep. He could not sleep last night because you
were coming in.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:30):
I mean, it's not the you know, I don't know.
It depends how you feel about it's been ten years.
The words you used were I hate him so much.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Have we ever met before a couple of times? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay, Well, like I mean, I apologize for not remembering this,
this quite pivotal moment in your life. I apologize for
the fact that when I was alerted to the fact
that you were here, I said who.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Then someone had to send me a link so I
could read about this.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Feud that we were in.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I felt, I mean, you know what the problem is.
I felt bad because I read her like and you
know what like based.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
On what was in the article.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
And again, you can never believe these articles because they've
literally just taken something from a podcast, like if only
I had the cultural currency that what we're saying today
could start another feud. I mean, I'm happy for us
to go out at Burger. If this is a real feud,
there'll get us in Adelaide Confidential. Then I'm happy to
get us some cliques and get it out there.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
But I got to be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I like, I read the article and it said that,
you know, you'd made some joke about people shouldn't be
doing comedy and if they weren't funny, and I teed
off on like, I was like, you know what, a
lot of people are not very funny when they start out,
which to this day, when I was reading that, I
was like.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
And I'm right, I am right, And who is wrong?
You stand by it. I have forgotten. But now, Burjoe,
I've gotta be honest. I think you were wrong then
and you'd be wrong now to say the same word.

Speaker 7 (03:03):
Many people just don't have it. Man, Some people shouldn't
be comedians. They're not funny.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
So I think we should go back and find this
would be the best thing if we could actually go
find and back and find the list of people that
are on that night, and we could do a scientific
experiment into which comedy.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Right and who's working, and this could.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Be and so we can see who you or I
has got more still in the race ten years later
from that night's lineup.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Was Burgo right or was Will right?

Speaker 6 (03:29):
We just paint a picture real quick for everyone at
home hasn't read this article that came out in June
twenty fourteen, which is Todd will Anderson slams Ryan Burjo
Burgess sang, I hate.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Him so much.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
It was about an interview Burgo did when he was
on a previous radio station with Will, and it was
just the normally to be about comedy, and Burgo asked
a question along the lines of can you see some
people when you're at like open mic nights and you're like, ah,
comedy might just not.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Be for you.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Can you see those people? And Will was sticking up
for the comedians and was saying a.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Second young comedian, a new comedian exact, it could be
a voice for my industry. I suggested that somebody you know,
perhaps would be looking. I said, I might have suggested
a Burgo that if people went back and listened to
the early tapes of him starting out in his radio career,
they might not have thought that ten years later, I've
got to be honest with you, I never thought this

(04:17):
would happen because I didn't think i'd run into him again.
I thought it was one of those fly by night guys.
It's going to be back in the regionals and into
him if I was out on a troom warring gold
and be.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Fair, we don't actually normally let him speak.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
I haven't let him speak a lot either.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Is there anyone though, like when you talk about him,
when you look at how axy the world is and
feuds and these feuds that happen, Is there anyone that
you generally do get grumpy at that you hold onto you.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Not no, but like there's been a few the other
way around people get grumpy at. Yeah. Yeah, because I.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Just like think it's all fun, right, Like I grew
up in this culture of like roasting people and having
fun and expressing your opinion. But it's all kind of
it's moves on, you know, Like I don't really think
about it, as I said, Like I wasn't being mean before.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
I was just like I just.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Would not have thought about that since then because I
just would have been like, that's something I said, that's
something I thought.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
He's got you on your hip.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Okay, So there was one person I can't tell you
who this is, but it was.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
This is a true story.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
So one time I made a joke about the reference
like a TV show they had made, and they got
so mad that they rang me up at home, like
and they challenged me to a fight like a jewel,
like a jewel, like in a local park. They asked
me to go and fight them.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Oh God, please believe it was Michael Klak. Here's what
I'm going to tell you. They I've always thought I
was very respectful.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
They had looked on Google Maps and chosen a park
that was kind of in between where we both love.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's really nice. I guess if you're.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Challenging someone to a fight that you've at least thought
through travel time for both people.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
You're both on your home ground.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
To the fight, and I'm trying to say to him,
I'm like, I just don't think this is the appropriate
way that we should be. I'm fine with you being upset,
but I don't think that we should be having a fight,
and he's like, nah, We've got to have a fight.
And so eventually the only one I can stop this
conversation is I agreed to the fight. I said, Okay,
I'm going to fight you. I'll go and fight you
in the park on meet at like one o'clock or whatever.
And you just went on win my day.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
You nearly sold out for Tuesday and Thursday.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Sir, well, it's nice. It's sold out last night too,
which I said to the audience. I said, thank you
so much, because I've been coming to Adelaide for a
long time, like since I started doing comedy, I've been
coming here to do the fringe, and Adelaide is always
the first place I do the show on the tour,
which means that Adelaide gets the loosest, weirdest. I'm trying
to work it out, to try and try a version,

(06:44):
and like there's been times over my career where I've
honestly been like, I'll move it to a different time
of the year. I'll come to Adelaide mid run, get
them to see the police show. But there's something about
working out the show, like in a tent in a
garden next to a roller coaster, where you're like, if
it works here, you know, once I take it to
it's really gonna be. It's like, you know, it's like
Hill Runs in the preseason, you know, like when you're

(07:05):
competing against someone.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Going all right, all right, all right, some of the jokes.
So when we get when you say you're at the
start of your run, here do you do? We have
some stuff that you're gonna see a reaction and be like, no,
that was crap.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I mean already some stuff like last night, this is
the thing, because that's what I said to the audience
last night. I just said, like, you see the show
that I thought it was going to be. In the
first few nights, I literally do two nights, then I
have a night off, and then I kind of rework
and and then it opens officially. But these are the
first two nights of me. Just here's what I think

(07:40):
the show's meant to be about. And last night there
was stuff I've been thinking about for three months in
my head. I can't wait to tell this that was
no good. And then there was a joke I thought
about in the shower that got a round of applause,
like it's so amazing that there's no yeah, and like
the first night in particularly like oh, I didn't realize

(08:00):
that was the funniest bit of that story.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
So is there a big bit that you're putting a
line through already? From last night show because you know
something the topic.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Okay, so I had this one thing, and you know what,
I actually I am very happy to burn this because
he's absolutely, based on the last night's reaction, not going
to make the show. But I had this whole premise.
I'll just give you the smallest bit, but there was
this whole bit about like how headlines. Remember the headlines
used to have to be connected to the article, Like
I don't want to sound like an old person. This
is my This was my premise. I don't want to

(08:30):
sound like an old person. But when I was growing up,
like the headline was an indicator of like what was
the come in the article? But now they're not related
to each other, right, They're not related to each other
at all. It's like the person who wrote the article
hasn't met the person who Man, this was.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
My whole book. There was more. There was more to it.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
But we do a clickbait segment on this show where
you get to read out the three clickbaits and you've
got to try to work out what the actual answer
to it all and what the it is.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
I love the topic. Yeah, my audience last night so much.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Can you get to a point where you go, I
know this is good. I know this is a good bit.
Your wrong audience does that.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
I mean, that is a dangerous place for a comedian
to be in.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
You know, like we say in society that you've got
to trust the experts, you know, scientists, co doctors, all
that sort of stuff. But that's the irony of my job.
Like I am an expert. I've been doing this in
any other measure of expertise. It is my full time job.
I've been doing it for thirty years. I work exclusively
in the comedy industry. If you're making a list of
people who are experts in comedy, I am one. I

(09:36):
thought about this joke for three months. Every day I've
been running it through my head, and then one night
I take it into a tent in Adelaide in a garden.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
And two hundred people tell me I was wrong.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
You go and see all of the stuff that he
hasn't cut out of his show. It's got will legitimate
at the garden une through the lights. You can get
tickets at fringeticks dot com dot au. We cannot thank
you enough. We'll from coming in and remember he's all
the way here through to the end of the Fringe.
So thank you very very much.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Sir, you expert you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
All right, we'll go back to this headline, shall we will?
Anderson Slam's Ryan Burjo.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I mean, let's get in the past. I'm happy Burjo
if we want to start another feud.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
I mean what I was going to say was when
you're saying that your jokes were falling fast, some people
just shouldn't be comedian.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah. I mean that's good. This is radio.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Right right, sitting down. They havebit moved.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
I mean he's a big guy.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
And again I'm not getting in a fight when the
guy is bigger than me or any guy.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
You know what, I'll meet in part.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
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