Kids In The Kitchen
Posted: March 19, 2017 Filed under: FOOD, Single Motherhood, Thought For the Day | Tags: baked beans, comedy, cooking disasters, cooking fails, crap cooking, Lou Pollard comedy shows, Lou Pollard stand up comedian, low budget cooking, mother was a good cook too, single mother comedians, Smotherhood, Sydney Comedy Festival 2017 1 CommentApparently you have to feed kids good nutrition to help ’em grow. But frankly, I’m sick of cooking. Once upon a time I worked with a woman selling merchandise who wasn’t brilliant at customer service. We used to jokingly say to her, “This shop would run smoothly if these stupid customers stopped coming in,” and I feel the same about my kids coming into the kitchen. I’d have a clean house if it wasn’t for these grotty teenagers. So at dinner time, my kids get two choices, like it or lump it. My daughters usually swap the inedible contents of their lunchboxes for their unsuspecting school friends’ more tasty morsels.
I’ve written a comedy show about my lack of enthusiasm for being left in charge of catering, frankly it’s a job that I’m underwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle, but it has provided my children many opportunities to laugh at me. And made them good cooks.
I’d love you to bring foodie friends to my funny show as I embark on a quest to outsource the catering. You’ll laugh your guts up as I enlist the audience in my hunt for a personal cooking slave. This show contains bad cooking and more culinary disasters than a season of Gordon Ramsay, along with sensational stand-up and me singing a few tunes. If you’re tired of smashing your own avocados, come to Lou Pollard in Kids In The Kitchen for the 2017 Sydney Comedy Festival at Matchbox – The Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road Marrickville on Saturday 6th May at 5.45pm and Sunday 7 May 2017 at 4.45pm
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Lou Pollard’s Looking For Mike Brady show is a joyous, wonderfully warped, true, raw romp through the minefields and thickets that beset dating, single parenthood and the predations of ageing.
**** Four stars – themusic.com.au
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Vote For Me
Posted: April 17, 2016 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Politics | Tags: auspol, Australian female comedians, Australian Politics, female politicians, Lou Pollard comedy shows, Lou Pollard for the Arts Party, pale stale male Australian politicians, party politics, political rorts, Politics, single mother politicians, single mothers with attitude, Sydney comedy, Sydney Comedy Festival 2016, The Arts Party Leave a commentWhy don’t you vote for me?
Not everyone in North Sydney would pay to meet Bronwyn Bishop.
This Thursday April 21st and Friday April 22nd, I’m performing my funny new show all about Australian politics, Vote One Lou Pollard at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville for the 2016 Sydney Comedy Festival. In this election year, come along and hear my crazy tales of politics in North Sydney.
When the other candidates are a joke, vote for the comedian
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Unreal Estate
Posted: September 22, 2015 Filed under: COMEDY | Tags: Australian female comedians, comedy and tragedy, female stand up comics, Funny females, Lou Pollard comedy, Lou Pollard comedy shows, Lou Pollard stand up comedian, Lou Pollard writer, Sydney Fringe Comedy Festival 2015, Sydney Fringe Festival 2015, Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home Leave a commentAt 8.30pm tonight I’m performing my new show A Real State at The Factory Theatre in Marrickville, for three nights only. I’m hunting for a lovely new home and an audience to match. As a professional fool I wish I had a good job to pay for a mortgage, just like the well-known real estate guru Joe Hockey. I’m currently squashed into a scenic apartment with my three children overlooking the rent.
Fresh from my four-star reviewed Sydney Comedy Festival show Looking For Mike Brady, I’m performing in a tastefully renovated new show about home hunting away from the airport flight path in Sydney’s unreal estate market. This superbly crafted story is a moving show, in a call-the-removalists-the-lease-is-up-again kind of way.
Sophisticated solo parent seeks attractive audience positioned to ensure the perfect lifestyle experience. Bring yourself and any urban hipster double income professionals to this perfectly priced fun show about one woman’s quest to find a stunning family home. You’ll laugh your guts up as I enlist the audience in my hunt for a house, and maybe a husband too.
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Home is where the heartache is
Posted: September 13, 2015 Filed under: COMEDY, Single Motherhood | Tags: comedy about real estate, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home, Lou Pollard comedy shows, Lou Pollard is in A Real State, Lou Pollard stand up comedian, Shows at the Factory Theatre Marrickville September 2015, Single mother financial stress, single mother housing stress, single mother in need of a home, Sydney Fringe Comedy 2015, Sydney Fringe Festival 2015, Sydney's over priced real estate Leave a commentI’ve written a new stand-up comedy show called A Real State for the Sydney Fringe Comedy Festival. My first performance of this incredibly funny tribute to the sorry state of real estate in Sydney is on Tuesday September 22 at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville.
I’m hoping to see more than my friends and five dogs in the audience as tickets are very cheap. I’ve written new songs and a lot of new material and if I remember to be funny it will be a great night of laughs.
You can buy tickets here: A Real State comedy show
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Still Looking For Mike Brady
Posted: March 29, 2015 Filed under: COMEDY | Tags: Australian female comedians, lady comedians, Looking For Mike Brady, Lou Pollard comedy shows, single mother comedians, stand up comedy, Sydney Comedy Festival 2015, Sydney Comedy Festival shows Leave a commentOne month today I’ll be performing at the Enmore Theatre for Sydney Comedy Festival in my solo comedy show ‘Looking For Mike Brady.’ My show is all about what a hot catch I am for a wealthy architect (not really). Without an audience I’m not that funny (ask my children), so please come and see my show, it is yet another of my finely researched single mother get rich quick schemes.
Bring your best friends, good looking architects and Sam the Butcher, I’ll be at The Enmore Theatre for two nights, Wednesday April 29 and Friday May 1 at 9.30pm
Come along and see me act like a silly person on stage.
You can book tickets at: http://www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au/
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Looking For Mike Brady
Posted: September 3, 2014 Filed under: COMEDY, MARRIAGE | Tags: 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival shows, architects make great husbands, Bill & Boyd - Put Another Log On The Fire, female comedians, Fringe Comedy Shows 2014, funny ladies, Looking For Mike Brady, Lou Pollard comedy shows, Lou Pollard in Looking For Mike Brady, Sydney Fringe Comedy show, Sydney Fringe Festival 2014 Leave a commentIn three weeks I’m performing my second solo stand up comedy show at The Factory Theatre, and I’m hoping more than four people and a dog come to see me perform. My show is called Looking For Mike Brady. Hopefully my future husband will be an architect like Mike Brady, because architects earn enough money to support a wife, 6 kids, a live in housekeeper, holidays in Hawaii and a big house. But knowing my luck with men, my future husband will probably be sitting in the audience disguised as a happily married gay man. I’ve written some silly songs and a whole lot of new material and if I can remember all of it I think it will be a great night of laughs. You can buy tickets here: sydneyfringe.com
Bill & Boyd – Put Another Log On The Fire
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Seriously
Posted: September 5, 2013 Filed under: ART, COMEDY, Parenting | Tags: celebrating kids with learning difficulties, comedy shows with kids, Lou Pollard comedy shows, Lou Pollard in Parental Guidance., mother and daughter comedy shows, Parental Guidance from children, performing monkeys, silly shows for kids, silly shows with kids, Sydney Fringe Festival 2013, Sydney Fringe Festival shows, Tap Gallery Sydney Leave a commentW.C. Fields was a wise man. He said that one should never work with children or animals. Next week I’m performing two comedy shows with my youngest daughter who is 8 years old, with the energy of a mad monkey. The rehearsal process was going so, ahem, well, that now my 11 year old daughter has stepped in to help us. You can see our show on Saturday September 14 2013 at Tap Gallery theatre (upstairs) in Darlinghurst (at 2pm and 4pm). Two years ago, I performed with my youngest at Woodford Folk Festival when she was only six, and she stole the show. At one point she threw stuff at the audience, she was hilarious. I must be a sucker for punishment, because when she suggested we do more shows together I said yes. I’ve written, rehearsed and am about to perform the show with someone who is bonkers, and not on Ritalin. And her big sister has turned into the stage control freak, thank God. Anyone got a wild pig we can borrow for our show?
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Never work with children, they’re animals
Posted: August 24, 2013 Filed under: ART, COMEDY | Tags: #culturerebel, comedy shows with kids, lots of fun that is funny, Lou Pollard comedy shows, mother and daughter clown shows, never work with children, Parental Guidance show for big kids and little kids, showbiz adages, Sydney Fringe Festival 2013, wild kids, working with my daughter Leave a commentOn September 14 I’m performing two shows with my youngest daughter, who is hyperactive, smart and very cheeky. The rehearsal process has been ‘interesting,’ with Wednesday adding in bits of script that don’t make sense or are hilarious to her but not to me. I’m thinking our show will be a shambles or very funny (or both). Our show is called Parental Guidance and we’re on at Tap Gallery (upstairs theatre) in Darlinghurst. You can buy tickets at http://2013.sydneyfringe.com/event/comedy/parental-guidance
And an interview I did for the Sydney Fringe Festival blog
http://blog.sydneyfringe.com/parental-guidance-breaking-the-first-rule-of-showbiz/
Wednesday and I
