Comedy Festival 2018: Helen Bidou nails it in flat-out psychodrama Enter The Spinnaker Lounge ★★★★★

RED hot and and red-lining all the way, Helen Bidou is sarong it’s sa-right. Check out why reviewer Mikey Cahill gave her show the first five-star review of this year’s comedy festival.

Helen Bidou (aka Anne Edmonds) runs an absolute riot in Enter The Spinnaker Lounge.

I’M still trying to process what happened last night.

Helen Bidou got Krack!n at 11.10pm in a garish, red and green sarong and had us buckled over laughing, crying, whooping, wolf-whistling, panting, pretty much ROFLCOPTERing into spontaneous combustion by 11.11pm.

She had her fans by the scruff of the neck tattoo for a full hour, took us shopping and scared the bejesus out of the full house whenever the voices in her head instructed her: “AHHHHH!!?!!” she interrobanged, her squawky voice throwing the room sideways with petrified convulsions.

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Full credit to the boy, her hapless DJ son, played by Sam Campbell (his show The Trough should be top of your must-see list), who leers like a teen taking an hour-long break from jerkin’ the gherkin to attempt a Will Smith monologue as he assists his mum (wait until you hear his reason for *still* hanging around her) with her variety show cum home shopping channel abomination.

Bidou going ballistic without a plot would have been entertaining but ultimately it would have punched below her weight.

Close associate Anne Edmonds knew this. So what we’re presented with is a flat-out psychodrama, a twisted love story (will Simon ever come back? Will there be “relegation defamation?”).

Spinnaker Lounge has an Orinoco Flow more fluid than any other offering of the 611 shows vying for your attention this year.

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No one was safe from Bidou’s copper-tongue. “I’m loving that Xavier Rudd vibe at the moment,” Bibou attested before taking us to Bindi, sorry, Byron Bay.

Don Burke got a Goodrem up the Delta — it’s fair to say Australia’s Harvey Weinstein had it coming.

And you’ve got it coming too, seven lurid green Kiwi mojitos and a date with Our Helen.

Put it on your Bidou list.

Helen Bidou, Enter The Spinnaker Lounge

Victoria Hotel and extra shows at Melbourne Town Hall, until April 22.

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