I loved the UK version of Last One Laughing recently on Amazon, so I tried the Australian series that came out before in 2020. The Australian series was A LOT. It was a lot of clown dick. Mainly the dick of Sam Simmons, who came second. I remember watching Sam at the Edinburgh Fringe maybe a decade ago and enjoying his show. Undeniably a funny man. I like the absurd and surreal. Mix that with the automatic high statusness of a middle-aged man acknowledging his brokenness, and you have your perfect clown. I started doing comedy when clowning was back in fashion. Hence I think I saw a lot of shows with men and their penises. A flaccid cock was a standard encore, so I blew a carrot for mine. (I used to close playing Nessun dorma on a butternut squash with a mouthpiece made from carrot.)
Watching Sam a decade later on the telly, however, I was like please put your dick away. I’m not a prude, like I get it. Love fart noises, bums are funny and I have never been able to take testicles seriou…
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