Eve Lamb
As a teenager Jude Perl (Comedy Festival Gala) had already unearthed her own unstoppable talent for music and lyric.
Inspired by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Carol King, Prince and Marvin Gaye, it was only in her early 20s that her love of the comedic also began to increasingly infiltrate her live stage performances.
“It was a gradual thing,” says the headliner act for this month’s Women of Wit comedy tour, describing the way that second driver – for making audiences laugh – began to emerge initially through what Jude describes as her “quirky writing”.
That bent for “quirky” lyric increasingly took on a satirical edge, becoming something that today invites the Melbourne-based performer’s audiences to belly-laugh at some of the well-known human foibles of our times – like consumerism.
Numbers she has written and won fans with – like The Label Song, Hungry and Horny and I have a Face also help us to take a good hard look at ourselves and … laugh out loud.
Now with six solo shows under her comedic belt Jude is headlining the Women of Wit Tour that’s set to … Read more in the Mail