Logan has all the right qualities to produce Australia’s funniest people according to rising comedy star Craig Quartermaine.
“The comedy industry in Australia is usually comprised of people from affluent backgrounds – it’s all the same,” Mr Quartermaine said.
He said diverse areas always produced funnier people, and it was no different in Logan.
“They’re always more fun and way louder,” he said.
“Their guard is also not up, and it’s higher energy.”
Mr Quartermaine and three of his “funniest best friends” will hold a stand-up comedy night at the Kingston Butter Factory on Saturday 23 March.
And he’s searching for some more comedic Logan residents to join him.
“Throughout the last two months we’ve been searching for comedy talent based in Logan,” Mr Quartermaine said.
“We want to give people in Logan an opportunity to see stand-up the way it’s meant to be done and give them a good gauge of whether or not they can do it.”
Mr Quartermaine held a similar even in Slacks Creek in January which he said was a “raging success”.
“I had a more diverse crowd there than I have anywhere else in the four years I’ve been in Queensland,” he said.
“And it was just because that’s what Logan is.
“It was so loud and so funny – it was brilliant.”
He said Logan already had the comedic talent to pull off a great night of stand-up.
“I just don’t know if they realise they’ve got it yet,” he said.
There were two locals at the Slacks Creek show who were crowd pleasers, Mr Quartermaine said.
“We had Rahim, who had never done stand-up before, who just got up and told a story about his grandmother trying to get him to marry his cousin,” he said.
“He’s from an Afghan background, and it’s a thing in Afghan culture to marry cousins, but I had no idea.
“He just told me the story casually, and I was kind of like ‘just get on stage and tell that’.
“He did and he killed it.”
Mr Quartermain described Logan’s humour as “honest”.
“It’s rough as guts, but at the same time there’s people from other backgrounds who are genuinely shocked if you say anything about sex or use any lewd language,” he said.
“It’s such a mix.
“It’s always refreshing to perform here since you’re funny, you’re so funny.”
Mr Quartermaine began pursuing comedy five years ago while working as a journalist.
He said all the things he couldn’t say to people as journalist, but wanted to, he could say as a comedian.
” I did one little gig just to get that out of my system, and I crushed it and I’ve just been offered work ever since,” he said.
Tickets to the comedy night with Craig Quartermaine, Ting Lim, Anisa Nandaula and Sami Shah can be booked at loganarts.com.au.
