February 19, 2023 • 7 mins
Will Anderson is in town for the Fringe and we got talking to him about what to see at the Fringe, political correctness and whether it's OK to call someone fat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fringe is up and it's about as is this man.
His show willuminate plays until March fifthin the Garden of
an Earthly Lights. But he's coming early this morning, will Andson.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
On Monday morning. It's my day off.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
But I came in regardless exactly. I would do it
for nobody else.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thank you. Please don't check my media schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Actually, while you're in here, because I asked and I
put it out there, I'd love an alternate view because
we're talking about roll Dale and how they have edited
these classic books, like so for example, you know Missus
trunch Ball's great Harsey face has been changed to just
face and the olympas and general neutral language. They're small people,
not small little men.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Augustus Group is no longer fat. He's just he's enormous enormous.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, that doesn't seem better, to be honest, if somebody
was going to describe me, it's either fat, a little
bit fat, or a little bit enormous. You're a little
bit fat, Like if you came back from pre season
and they said you're a little fat versus your enormous.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You can work on a little bit fat. You can't
work on enormous.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I think that I think they are going to go
back and re edit it. I just want to put
an enity's first name, so it's Ronald, and we could
all understand what is going on. But I think here
is my counterpoint to that. Like, as a comedian, I
see language change all the time, and there are certainly
things that I would have said twenty years ago, thirty
years ago that I would not say I may act now.
And as a comedian, because I work live, I get
the opportunity to update my language and the way that
(01:20):
I talk about things. But authors they write it down
and it's like that forever. So society changes and then
something that wasn't outdated at the time can seem really
outdated now. You read these books and you think, oh,
he's an old fashioned person.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
When he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
He was just writing in the language of the time.
So does it ruin those books, Like I mean Willie Wonka,
for example, Like I never was, like, you know what,
my favorite thing about this that the Upolupas are men.
Your favorite thing about Willy Wonka is the fact that
the ulas were men and not like they're little orange people.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You're like, yeah, but they've got penisses right. Otherwise I
can't enjoy this story. I can't enjoy this story about
a creepy old who keeps them as slaves, getting a
whole bunch of kids to come to his wonder factory
so he can murder them off one by one.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I can't enjoy that. If the jumblumbas are generally neutral.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So I mean, that's where my life is just orange penises.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Little orange ones, like Donald Trump on the sex tape.
So I think that as long as it isn't substantially
changing the story anyway, if you take out these things,
if you put in some reference that you know, like
the witches have bald heads, but it's okay to be baled,
I think that's kind of a positive message for the kids.
That doesn't really change the story anymore. And if I
(02:33):
was the author, and I mean the dull State have said,
we like this because it makes the books more inclusive
to people. If it was me, if I was the
person who wrote those things, I wouldn't be there going no.
I wanted to be exactly like what I thought it
was thirty years ago. I'd be like, I'd love it
to reflect the way I look and talk about the world.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Now, that would be my counterpart.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But is there not also that part where if he's
talking about the witches, right, you know, and that they're
bald and everything, that that is part of the grossness
of them. Not necessarily that people who are board are gross,
but that is the way that he is intertwined that
into being so shocking for one.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Of the little kids.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Absolutely, But I do think there is a difference between
saying exactly what you've said, which is that they are
gross in this occasion, this is what we're trying to say,
versus being baled as gross.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So you've just basically made me prove your point.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Seek around. We're going to talk about will illuminating it.
So you had your first show last night at the Brine,
Found the Garden of an Earthly Little Light. It's all good.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, it's going well. It's always nice to be an Adelaide.
I had a woman in the front row. This is
what I love the most is I had a woman
in the front row. She was a mother in law
and her family are here and her son married like
a girl from here and they leave an Adelaide and
she comes over from England every year to visit. And
I said how many times have you been to Adelaide?
And she said seven times? And I said how long
(03:54):
do you stay for when you're in Adelaide? She said
a month at a time. And I said, what months
have you been here?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
She goes March.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Every time you have the weirdest idea about what this
city is like, Like this city has been on its
best behavior for you for seven.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Months, You're like, you should go to Adelaide.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's the most exciting place on her just like there's
nineteen things that all happened at the same time. She's
had seven months of NonStop fun. She doesn't realize you
just hibernate for.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The exactly and recover. So I took my mum last night,
seventy six year old mumsy to her very first friend
last night, What did you go and see? We went
and steel Velvet rewind. She rewired with Marcia Heines because
I didn't know what to send her to. Yeah, I didn't,
and I didn't want to be caught sitting next to
her if someone's boobs came out or it could have
been wrangchy, because that's just a whole he and so
(04:42):
I thought Mary queens out of her cor let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I think your mum knows what that stuff. If she
didn't know what it was, you wouldn't be here.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I reckon she knows that, you know, because you've got
a few children.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, ours came in.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I told you about that, and she's only ever had
sex twice.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know that when you say, is it one of
those healthy men?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was the one nighter who took me out. No,
So she came out of him and she was honestly puffed.
She was genuinely puffed because she was riding every sort
of song and lights and roller skating and all this.
And then you know, some trapeze artist was doing something
absolutely wonderful. Well where's his mom? Well, what happens, is
(05:33):
something happen, he's going to die, I will be there.
Where's his mom?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Like it was just such a mum to go and do.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah. So I love the idea that your mom thinks
that they kill off like someone on a tricycle every
third night.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Where's his mom?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Is she here for the funeral? I'm coming back on
Tuesday for the funeral. Is it half priced funerals? On Tuesday?
I'm coming back.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Squid games would be a good shot. Yes, well you've
been playing festivals since ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yes, what are you?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I was five, I've gone to your first one. Do
you get coming up with content every single year? Where
does this come from?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I have a hideous mortgage and no other skills. Where
does it come from? For you? Desperation?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I stop every morning?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What can I talk about?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It's just it's just so many shows that you've had,
You've come through. So you stand there last night, you're
opening show, right, yeah, and you've got a bit of
an idea what you want to talk about. But like,
are you changing on the fly?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All the time, is what I will say. Like sometimes
it's just like just about opening up your imagination. I'm
doing a show in Brunswick Heads in New South Wales,
like last Wednesday, right, and like I'm talking to some
people in the front row and I said, what do
you do for a living? And they say, we clean
holiday accommodation. Quite a common job up in Byron Bay
part of the world. And sometimes you're like, okay, well
I don't know if I've got anything. That's my shoke,
(06:52):
So I ask a question. Sometimes you just ask a question.
I said, what's the weirdest thing that you've ever had
left there that you've found after somebody's date And they said, well,
that's amazing. Just last week we found a blindfold lube
and a butt pluck. Oh, And I said, well do
you put that in Lost and found? Do you follow
up and say, I think we will left something here
(07:13):
because I guess you're not going to like sell it
on the second hand market. I suppose it's not something you.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Can buy us on.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And that's exactly why I didn't take my mum to
that show.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Because you just had that weekend in Byron.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But all right, Will Anderson, the show is Illuminate, playing
all the way March fifth in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.
He is a legend. Go and see him. You can
get tickets online now at Adlaidfringe dot com dot are
you as always Will Anderson, thank you so very much
my play.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Thanks for having me
The fringe is up and it's about as is this man.
His show willuminate plays until March fifthin the Garden of
an Earthly Lights. But he's coming early this morning, will Andson.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
On Monday morning. It's my day off.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
But I came in regardless exactly. I would do it
for nobody else.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thank you. Please don't check my media schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Actually, while you're in here, because I asked and I
put it out there, I'd love an alternate view because
we're talking about roll Dale and how they have edited
these classic books, like so for example, you know Missus
trunch Ball's great Harsey face has been changed to just
face and the olympas and general neutral language. They're small people,
not small little men.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Augustus Group is no longer fat. He's just he's enormous enormous.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, that doesn't seem better, to be honest, if somebody
was going to describe me, it's either fat, a little
bit fat, or a little bit enormous. You're a little
bit fat, Like if you came back from pre season
and they said you're a little fat versus your enormous.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You can work on a little bit fat. You can't
work on enormous.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I think that I think they are going to go
back and re edit it. I just want to put
an enity's first name, so it's Ronald, and we could
all understand what is going on. But I think here
is my counterpoint to that. Like, as a comedian, I
see language change all the time, and there are certainly
things that I would have said twenty years ago, thirty
years ago that I would not say I may act now.
And as a comedian, because I work live, I get
the opportunity to update my language and the way that
(01:20):
I talk about things. But authors they write it down
and it's like that forever. So society changes and then
something that wasn't outdated at the time can seem really
outdated now. You read these books and you think, oh,
he's an old fashioned person.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
When he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
He was just writing in the language of the time.
So does it ruin those books, Like I mean Willie Wonka,
for example, Like I never was, like, you know what,
my favorite thing about this that the Upolupas are men.
Your favorite thing about Willy Wonka is the fact that
the ulas were men and not like they're little orange people.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You're like, yeah, but they've got penisses right. Otherwise I
can't enjoy this story. I can't enjoy this story about
a creepy old who keeps them as slaves, getting a
whole bunch of kids to come to his wonder factory
so he can murder them off one by one.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I can't enjoy that. If the jumblumbas are generally neutral.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So I mean, that's where my life is just orange penises.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Little orange ones, like Donald Trump on the sex tape.
So I think that as long as it isn't substantially
changing the story anyway, if you take out these things,
if you put in some reference that you know, like
the witches have bald heads, but it's okay to be baled,
I think that's kind of a positive message for the kids.
That doesn't really change the story anymore. And if I
(02:33):
was the author, and I mean the dull State have said,
we like this because it makes the books more inclusive
to people. If it was me, if I was the
person who wrote those things, I wouldn't be there going no.
I wanted to be exactly like what I thought it
was thirty years ago. I'd be like, I'd love it
to reflect the way I look and talk about the world.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Now, that would be my counterpart.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But is there not also that part where if he's
talking about the witches, right, you know, and that they're
bald and everything, that that is part of the grossness
of them. Not necessarily that people who are board are gross,
but that is the way that he is intertwined that
into being so shocking for one.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Of the little kids.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Absolutely, But I do think there is a difference between
saying exactly what you've said, which is that they are
gross in this occasion, this is what we're trying to say,
versus being baled as gross.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So you've just basically made me prove your point.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Seek around. We're going to talk about will illuminating it.
So you had your first show last night at the Brine,
Found the Garden of an Earthly Little Light. It's all good.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, it's going well. It's always nice to be an Adelaide.
I had a woman in the front row. This is
what I love the most is I had a woman
in the front row. She was a mother in law
and her family are here and her son married like
a girl from here and they leave an Adelaide and
she comes over from England every year to visit. And
I said how many times have you been to Adelaide?
And she said seven times? And I said how long
(03:54):
do you stay for when you're in Adelaide? She said
a month at a time. And I said, what months
have you been here?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
She goes March.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Every time you have the weirdest idea about what this
city is like, Like this city has been on its
best behavior for you for seven.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Months, You're like, you should go to Adelaide.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's the most exciting place on her just like there's
nineteen things that all happened at the same time. She's
had seven months of NonStop fun. She doesn't realize you
just hibernate for.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The exactly and recover. So I took my mum last night,
seventy six year old mumsy to her very first friend
last night, What did you go and see? We went
and steel Velvet rewind. She rewired with Marcia Heines because
I didn't know what to send her to. Yeah, I didn't,
and I didn't want to be caught sitting next to
her if someone's boobs came out or it could have
been wrangchy, because that's just a whole he and so
(04:42):
I thought Mary queens out of her cor let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I think your mum knows what that stuff. If she
didn't know what it was, you wouldn't be here.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I reckon she knows that, you know, because you've got
a few children.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, ours came in.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I told you about that, and she's only ever had
sex twice.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know that when you say, is it one of
those healthy men?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was the one nighter who took me out. No,
So she came out of him and she was honestly puffed.
She was genuinely puffed because she was riding every sort
of song and lights and roller skating and all this.
And then you know, some trapeze artist was doing something
absolutely wonderful. Well where's his mom? Well, what happens, is
(05:33):
something happen, he's going to die, I will be there.
Where's his mom?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Like it was just such a mum to go and do.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah. So I love the idea that your mom thinks
that they kill off like someone on a tricycle every
third night.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Where's his mom?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Is she here for the funeral? I'm coming back on
Tuesday for the funeral. Is it half priced funerals? On Tuesday?
I'm coming back.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Squid games would be a good shot. Yes, well you've
been playing festivals since ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yes, what are you?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I was five, I've gone to your first one. Do
you get coming up with content every single year? Where
does this come from?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I have a hideous mortgage and no other skills. Where
does it come from? For you? Desperation?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I stop every morning?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What can I talk about?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It's just it's just so many shows that you've had,
You've come through. So you stand there last night, you're
opening show, right, yeah, and you've got a bit of
an idea what you want to talk about. But like,
are you changing on the fly?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All the time, is what I will say. Like sometimes
it's just like just about opening up your imagination. I'm
doing a show in Brunswick Heads in New South Wales,
like last Wednesday, right, and like I'm talking to some
people in the front row and I said, what do
you do for a living? And they say, we clean
holiday accommodation. Quite a common job up in Byron Bay
part of the world. And sometimes you're like, okay, well
I don't know if I've got anything. That's my shoke,
(06:52):
So I ask a question. Sometimes you just ask a question.
I said, what's the weirdest thing that you've ever had
left there that you've found after somebody's date And they said, well,
that's amazing. Just last week we found a blindfold lube
and a butt pluck. Oh, And I said, well do
you put that in Lost and found? Do you follow
up and say, I think we will left something here
(07:13):
because I guess you're not going to like sell it
on the second hand market. I suppose it's not something you.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Can buy us on.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And that's exactly why I didn't take my mum to
that show.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Because you just had that weekend in Byron.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But all right, Will Anderson, the show is Illuminate, playing
all the way March fifth in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.
He is a legend. Go and see him. You can
get tickets online now at Adlaidfringe dot com dot are
you as always Will Anderson, thank you so very much
my play.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Thanks for having me
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