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Frida Kahlo and Genghis Khan met at Schoolies. Monet and Lady Di bonded at F45 classes. Plato and Ned Kelly walked the Camino together. Damian Callinan hosts an improvised chat show with a rotating duo of the world's best comedians, improvisors and actors taking on historical roles as they reinvent the past, revealing how they became UNLIKELY FRIENDS. The three-time nominee for Most Outstanding Show returns to his improv roots in the world premiere of a new format that will be later released as a podcast. Having armed themselves with whatever Wikipedia has to say on their back story, the guests enter the fray, armed only with their wits as Damo takes them through the highs and lows of their friendship. In this context the Unlikely Friends, live in a quasi-immortal, hyper reality where all famous people dwell in any timeline of their choosing. This inevitably leads to the big questions: Who played Goal Attack in Joan of Arc and Houdini’s mixed netball team? Why was Mary Magdalene banned from attending Gandhi’s Tupperware parties? Did Marie Curie and Bodacea really make out at Glastonbury?
As Shakespeare said, ‘Most friendship is feigning, most loving is folly’, but he also said, ‘I give Queen Victoria six months, tops!’ so I wouldn’t go building a show around his predictions.
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Comedy Republic, 231-233 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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