Had enough of the WOKE brigade? You can’t say ‘moist’, you can’t assume a person’s gender or even if they identify as a person at all, may be they are a plant! If this is you, you need to see The WFT?! Show’s latest show, WAR ON WOKE.
Australia’s most loved yet shockingly rib-splitting comedy act, The WTF?! Show, is back again this year to send Melbourne International Comedy Festival goers into a mouth-frothing frenzy of laughs and lung-punching gasps. Their 2023 show is aptly titled ‘WAR ON WOKE’ because everyone is completely fed up having to watch what they say for fear of being cancelled, jailed, sacked, or even worse, suspended on Twitter.
WAR ON WOKE takes the piss out of everything and everyone.
“What is wokeness? A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything but their own behaviour. In our latest installment of The WTF?! Show, we hit the woke brigade straight between their beady little eyes,” JNewtz said.
“Nothing is off limits. We dare to go places most people are scared to go. We get stuck into the nitty gritty of woke and its shit show of rules, stupidity and dumb-arseness.”
The comedic trio of Milton White, JNewtz and Mick Moore are the brains behind the WTF?! Show. All three have been stand-up comedians and performers for most of their lives. Since teaming up together to create The WTF?! Show, the trio has created an extraordinary body of tantalisingly sharp, insightful and extremely clever comedy and amassed a significant and growing following of rusted on fans worldwide. This year’s show is the sixth year The WTF?! Show has appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and WAR ON WOKE doesn’t disappoint.
WAR ON WOKE builds on the trio’s momentum and rave reviews from previous shows, Censored in 2022 and Be Offended in 2021. After taking part in the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the boys jet off to the UK where they will appear at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August, the world’s largest arts and media festival.
“We’re an incredible team: An Englishman, an Australian and a Kenyan, so we like to think our act has a fairly diverse range of cultured perspectives. As a result The WTF?! Show has a large array of comedy flavours to offer,” JNewtz said.
“This year’s show WAR ON WOKE, is the show we had to have. Someone has to stand up and call out the utter stupidity that we are all being forced to live with.
“You can’t say ‘moist, you can’t assume a person’s gender or even if they identify as a person at all, may be they are a plant. Netball teams would rather sack their benefactor than have funds to play the game and the difference between the internet and the North Pole is that the internet has more snowflakes.
“What started off as a way to call out discrimination has somehow been hijacked by self-righteous people who have had humour bypass surgery to virtue signal themselves to grab social media likes for their fragile egos.
“Political correctness is ruining creativity and livelihoods in all aspects of human activity and is the enemy of humour and creative thinking in general.
“If you are a comedian or a white, privileged male (both endangered species apparently), you now have one of two options: either avoid controversy like the plague or run happily towards it. The WTF Show chooses to run towards it, hence our blatant mockery of all snowflakes.
“If you are woke, easily offended or highly entitled then we welcome you to come to our show and learn a thing or two about humanity, humour and happiness. Will you be offended, probably. Will it kill you, no! However if you are offended and feel oppressed we have a cure for this. Simply close your eyes, take a deep breath, let it out slowly and as you do, grow the fuck up!”
This year’s show is already been touted by many as the trio’s best work. The WTF?!’ Show’s WAR ON WOKE is being delivered on stage at Club Voltaire in North Melbourne during the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Venue
Club Voltaire
14 Raglan Street, North Melbourne
Dates
April: Thursday 13 and 20. 8.00 pm
April: Friday 14 and 21. 9.30 pm
April: Saturday 15 and 22. 9.30 pm
Tickets are available at: https://WarOnWoke.eventbrite.com
