IF you\u2019ve ever felt personally victimised by a boring Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow, then there\u2019s a comedy antidote for that.<\/p>\n
Stand-up comedians Ethan Cavanagh and Sweeney Preston are bringing their split-bill Presentation is Everything – An Hour of Power(Point Comedy) <\/em>to the Ballaarat Mechanics\u2019 Institute on Saturday 26 August for a special live taping.<\/p>\n \u201cWe find the topic is a beautiful equaliser of all people,\u201d Cavanagh said. \u201cWe get students who sat through lectures, corporates who have to sit and listen to KPIs, and the TikTok generation who need constant stimulus.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s fast-paced, chaotic, and the promise is that every single joke in the show has a PowerPoint slide to go with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Twenty-four-year-old Cavanagh has been performing stand-up for about seven years, first getting up on stage to tell his jokes when he was a student at Ballarat Grammar.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important for me to be bringing our show home to Ballarat,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really good for touring comics to put regional centres on the touring map a bit, because the reception\u2019s always so great.<\/p>\n \u201cThe crowds are often a lot more fun, and it\u2019s also easier to sell tickets, because you\u2019re not competing with thousands of events in Melbourne every night.\u201d<\/p>\n Cavanagh has become a regular on the Melbourne scene, based in the city for the last couple of years. Alongside 25-year-old Preston, he hopes to take comedy full-time soon.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s no lack of success, with Presentation is Everything winning Best Comedy at the 2023 Dunedin Fringe in New Zealand and selling out at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cThe show\u2019s really found its legs,\u201d Cavanagh said. \u201cWe\u2019re really happy with where it is now, so there\u2019s something nice about bringing it home to Ballarat.<\/p>\n \u201cI understand the crowds best and there\u2019s a nice relationship there. It feels like a win.<\/p>\n \u201cSweeney also can\u2019t wait to come to Ballarat because he always gets a home-cooked meal at my mum\u2019s house,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n Visit bit.ly\/3OCMUZ2 for tickets. Once the show is filmed, it will likely be published on YouTube as a special, and clipped up to promote the comics\u2019 work on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IF you\u2019ve ever felt personally victimised by a boring Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow, then there\u2019s a comedy antidote for that. Stand-up comedians Ethan Cavanagh and Sweeney Preston are bringing their split-bill Presentation is Everything – An Hour of Power(Point Comedy) to the Ballaarat Mechanics\u2019 Institute on Saturday 26 August for a special live taping. \u201cWe find […]<\/p>\n