The Ian Bagg Show
When? 29th March – 22nd April | Mon – Sat 8 PM | Sun 7 PM
How much? Full $25 | Conc. $20 | Cheap Tues. $15 – Buy Tickets
Where? Exford Hotel 
IAN Bagg stood perplexed on stage. He surveyed the audience and counted the empty chairs. The Canadian is used to pulling big crowds. He is a regular on Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Tonight there were only 16 occupied seats. The Exford Hotel function room was a third full.
Nonetheless the Canadian carried on slowly enticing attendees to share personal stories. Eventually the audience warmed to him. It was an interactive, fun and a little bizarre. When I went to the bathroom after the show, I knew the girl using hair spray liked black men, her friend in the blue dress was a judgemental dietician and the woman with curly brown hair met her husband in a foosball playoff.
Ian Bagg has the skills to draw out information from the most hostile crowd; he is talented and quick on his feet. A great stand-up if you’re not afraid of airing your dirty laundry.
I saw Ian Bagg at the Spiegle Tent Docklands Melbourne last night. What a dick!!! He strung out his act for about 45 min longer than necessary just so he could have a face off with an 80 yr old guy who didn’t like his act. Aren’t professional comedians meant to put those guys in thier place with one quick “back at you” and move on. Not carry on a one way conversation and bore the rest of the audience to the point where people were leaving. He ruined a rather good gig. What happened to ‘leave them wanting more’.
I also don’t get how a comedian thinks its ok for abusing an audience for not laughing. This was so bizare because lots of people were laughing, maybe he’d lost his hearing on the flight over that day. The number of times he said we were a bunch of uptight nuns (and no it wasn’t that polite) was just annoying and not necessary. If that’s how you warm up a crowd in Canada, good luck to you.
Rest of the show was great. Bev was a laugh. At least she knew how to use swearing and dirty jokes to her advantage.