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Kadri and I are on the Greek Island of Ios and the scenery here is beyond description. It is so far beyond description I will now attempt to describe it. Amazing clear water, mountains, other islands off in the distance, white sand beaches, those boxy white greek houses you have seen on a million pictures… Continue reading The Island Of Ios: My Heaven, My Hell

Ive been here a day and I like it already. It is familiar, interesting, the people are all different, crazy but somehow all Greek too. Also comfortable. The extent to which the Greeks have influenced Australia has started to dawn on me. As I digested as much comedy as I could as a kid, I… Continue reading Doing It Greek Style

Up on the Comedy Estonia website I have been doing a new podcast, talking to all the comedians we bring here to Estonia. Its a lot of fun to talk to them and I think we have had some good talks about comedy and what goes on behind the scenes. A podcast is like an… Continue reading My Comedy Podcast

Leading up to our all Aussie special at Club Prive on May 18th, I wanted to tell you a little more about our culture. Who are Australians really? Do we really all sit at the beach all day drinking Fosters while our mate fires up a BBQ? Absolutely yes. We have built a whole economy… Continue reading What Does It Mean To Be An Aussie Bogan?

I dont care if thats proper Swedish or not, Ive been speaking bad Svenska all week anyway. We are in Umeå and our last gig is done. We were invited here to perform as part of a festival of gender studies and between Marja, Evelyn, Henric, Sandra and I think we gave them a good… Continue reading En Bra Vecka i Sverige

Its been a year since I visited Stockholm, in fact I havn’t returned since I packed up the Volvo, Alireza helped me put my bed on the roof and took the Volvo and myself to Finland. I got asked to put together a comedy show in Umeå again this year so I took Chezek and… Continue reading Stockholm – The Return

Last night Comedy Estonia had our segment on Pealtnägija which is kind of like Estonian “60 minutes”. This is a pretty big thing for us, due to good fortune we have had this and Playboy come out in our anniversary month and we couldn’t have asked for this to have gone better. This is really… Continue reading Estonian TV

In a few weeks Finland is having a general election and like in all countries, there is lots of political advertising around the place. Well, actually no. Finland doesn’t really have that much but what they do have is gold. Check ou tmy thoughts on some of the candidates in my area, the central Helsinki… Continue reading Louis’ Guide to the 2011 Finnish Elections

I doubt the birth of my first child will be any prouder a moment than this one. Eric and I have been interviewed by Playboy Estonia. Now I have an excuse to buy those 10 copies. Check it out, right down the bottom left there.

April marks the one year anniversary of Comedy Estonia and its gone better than I ever hoped it could have. We started a year ago wondering if anyone would come to our shows, now we run at least 4 shows a month and get up to 200 people into each venue. The crowds are good… Continue reading One Year of Comedy Estonia