Comedy Festival 2018: Becky Lucas reveals the naughty beneath the nice in Cute Funny Smart Sexy Beautiful ★★★★

NAUGHTY but nice as funny girl Becky Lucas finds plenty of mirth in the minutiae.

THE sign outside Melbourne Town Hall’s Regent Room warns that this show contains explicit language, drug and sexual references. Inside, the venue is sold out on a school night.

Comedian and TV writer Becky Lucas welcomes her audience, disses the tight security, bemoans that showgoers can’t bring in a drink, then launches straight into the question: Where would you be in a human centipede?

Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned.

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After she was born, Lucas says she rolled her eyes and said, “Really?” That droll shtick is a winning formula which she applies to her material, from moving in with her BF (“We could be together for the rest of our lease”) to waking up on the couch to a women’s soccer match on TV (“I left it on — here girls, have some ratings.”)

Becky Lucas in Cute Funny Smart Sexy Beautiful. Picture: Jim Lee Photo

Lucas says she suffers from low self-esteem — and milks that for gags — but her show suggests otherwise. She is extremely comfortable on-stage, boasts a near-flawless delivery and flow, and has the deadpan pause-and-effect down pat.

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She’s like the mischief-making ringleader at school who never gets caught because butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth.

Towards the end of the show, Lucas comments that reviewers often find her material “shallow”. Not this reviewer.

This is slick, whip-smart observational comedy at its finest.

Becky Lucas, Cute Funny Smart Sexy Beautiful

Melbourne Town Hall, cnr Swanston and Collins sts, until April 22.

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