Who Wants To Be A Wilionaire? Citysearch Review

Apparently Wil Anderson has a dark secret in his past - he used to be a journo in the Canberra press gallery. Enough to drive anyone to comedy. Since making the jump to ha-ha-land, Anderson has become one of Australia's most popular stand-ups with his loosely-thematic shows. After last year's Wilennium, this new one is about the machinations of fame, the how and why of life inside the celebrity sausage machine. Eddie McGuire from Australia's dumbest quiz show will also be featured, fairly obviously. Stephen Dunne, CitySearch   Review:   Anderson's comedy is superficially slight at the beginning of his routine. The set up offers us easy digs at one of the more stupid of TV shows and hosts. But Anderson's real strengths began to shine through as he ventured into the nature of fame in our lives that sends us to game shows, as contestants and viewers, to magazines lauding the spunk du jour and why science has developed a better nipple for fake boobs, made out of pigs' ears. While having us giggling with some of the inherent problems of pigs' ears nipples (needing that special bra to keep them in check as one would want to go to market and the other would go wee wee wee all the way home; a curious relationship with apple sauce), Anderson's underlying anger began to bubble through. It's not corrosive anger but a passionate distaste for humbug, whether it is political sophistry or a celebrity obsessed media, that turns the second half of the set into a tangy mix of regular laughs and longer lasting thoughts. Bernard Zuel, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 2000 http://sydney.citysearch.com.au/E/E/SYDNE/0006/95/10/cs1.html