{"id":3062,"date":"2011-05-28T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2011-05-28T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T12:38:51","slug":"australian-improv-comedy-pre-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/australian-improv-comedy-pre-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian improv comedy pre-history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father saw a young Melbourne comedian named Barry Humphries try out an act as an ordinary Moonee Ponds housewife in a Review at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillip_Street_Theatre\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Street Theatre<\/a> in Sydney in about 1955. \u00a0 He and I saw undergraduate mathematician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/tv-and-radio\/radio-head-20110527-1f72h.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Spencer<\/a> winning theatre sports improv contests at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haroldparkhotel.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Harold Park Hotel<\/a> in about 1988.\u00a0\u00a0 As well as being so witty that I would remember his name all this time, he also still had a full head of blonde hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father saw a young Melbourne comedian named Barry Humphries try out an act as an ordinary Moonee Ponds housewife in a Review at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney in about 1955. \u00a0 He and I saw undergraduate mathematician Adam Spencer winning theatre sports improv contests at The Harold Park Hotel in about 1988.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,35,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-history","category-matherati","p1","y2011","m05","d28","h12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}