Spicks and Specks-tacular

On Thursday evening Lauren and I went to see Spicks and Specks live show. Spicks and Specks is a half hour comedy music quiz show where 2 teams compete against each other.

The ABC show is hosted by Adam Hills, an Australian comedian. The two teams are lead by Alan Brough and Myf Warhurst.

[Alan, Adam & Myf]

Spicks and Specs has become my favourite Australian show. Because it’s such a fun show to watch; the comedy that is generated by Adam, Alan and Myf and the celebrity guests is a hoot.

The live show was great. Instead of celebrity guests, the audience were the contestants. Adam, Alan and Myf also did some comedy segments that were quite funny. There was the Dirty Dancing segment, a Phil Collins piano/ballet duo and a Thriller video re-enactment. Adam Hills started off with a bit of comedy, talking to and poking fun at the audience.

Some of the favourite games from the show were part of the live show - Malvern Stars On 45, Substitute and Mondegreens (misunderstood song lyrics). In the live show, it was revealed that Myf only learned the real lyrics to the popular Men at Work song Down Under while doing a live show. It’s the following lyric:

Proper: Where women glow and men plunder

She along with myself always thought the lyric was:

Wrong: Where women blow and men plunder

Her reasoning was that she came from the country and that seemed like a perfectly normal thing to say.

It was a great hour and half of fun and comedy.

A Thursday night on the town
After the show finished, just after 8:30pm, we exited the Comedy Theatre to a very warm and still light Thursday night. So we decided to wonder the city. Our first stop was Container 8 or Section 8.

A container that houses a bar, in a side alley. Lauren and I both had a Lemon, Lime and Biters, very refreshing. We stood around talking in the busy bar area. We then headed to Swanston street and stopped of at another trendy bar – Cookie. But it was so busy; we waited about 10mins to get a drink and then decided to leave. We walked to Federation Square and had another drink at Transport bar, sitting outside on a very warm summer night.

Our evening ended with us walking along Birrung Mar to Jolimont Station to get the train. But it was not departing for 25 mins. So we walked up to the nearby 7-11 and each grabbed a packet of chips and sat at a nearby tram stop. We ate our chips while watching the traffic go by till our train was ready to depart.

It was great evening of Fun in the City.

Spicks and Specks links
Spicks and Specks-tacular (the live show webpage)

ABC Spicks and Specks (ABC homepage)