The veteran comedian is returning to Melbourne and while there won’t be dancing in his new show, he does showcase a couple of other skills he honed during lockdown. BillBailey MelbourneComedy Whatson
, which seems at first, well, a little predictable. Until you learn he came up with that title in 2019.
The title was, he says, originally a reference to his worldview at the time, well before the pandemic. “The sort of … political upheaval in Europe, a drift towards nativism, nationalism, and that was mirrored by the Trump era and the assertiveness of China and tragically Putin,” he says.
It was, he says, a brutal ending to the night. “I walked off stage and all the staff were immediately laid off – it was grim. The venue was shuttered, chained up and locked in mothballs and that was it,” he says. “It really brought it home to us – shit just got real! The next day I was supposed to be in Lisbon and Portugal had declared a state of emergency, but we thought, yeah, a comedy gig is probably not high on their list of priorities right now.
“It was one of many disastrous missteps, but this one affected me quite badly,” he says. “I even had a dream about it. I was on a beach, in the rain, and I saw a billboard and it said ‘Bill’s next job is a fisherman, he just doesn’t know it yet’. It really got into my head!”He even began to question the point of working in the arts.
Paired with Latin dance champion Oti Mabuse for a special lockdown iteration of the popular program , Bailey trained for months to pull off a series of complex dance routines.
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