MELBOURNE-based stand-up comedian Karl Chandler has high expectations for next week's Fresh Comedy performance in Launceston.
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This is primarily due to the success he tasted at the comedy night in 2013.
"It was hand on heart my favourite gig for that year," Chandler told X-static this week.
"The crowd was so into it, it made it an absolute pleasure to perform.
"I went down there and was told I would have to perform for 25 minutes, and 25 minutes of my material can be hard to remember as they are quite short jokes, so I was a bit stressed out.
"But by the time that I had got off (stage) it was all that easy, and they were so into it, that I'd done 42 minutes.
"I had some brand-new jokes in my book in my pocket, and I was like 'can I just read these out as well?'.
"The audience was like 'yeah, you do whatever you want', and that made it the dream gig, the type of gig we all dream about as comedians."
It was so good, Chandler said that even if next week's show was only three-quarters as good, he would deem it a great evening.
It will come at the perfect time for him, just before the start of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with the Fresh show on Friday, March 20, giving him the chance to "confirm" his material before that festival.
Chandler, who has written for The Project and Spicks and Specks, and is the co-host of The Little Dum Dum Club podcast, said his comedy style was all about the jokes.
"Some comedians are storytellers and other use gimmicks, but what I do is just tell short jokes.
"If you go and see me do an hour show, I might do 100 or 140 jokes or something like that, and if I am in the zone I might do six jokes in a minute.
"If you don't like one joke, just wait six seconds and the next one you might like.
"When you do that many jokes you can't do anything topical, as it could be gone the next day or in a week's time, so I try to just do jokes about everyday stuff, so I can hang on to them."
The night will be hosted by Stewart Bell, with Tim Logan and Daniel Townsend providing support.