MEANING...? - Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2007

reviewed in The Age by Helen Razer, 23/4/07
***
IF THE notion of Don Watson's Death Sentence turned to immediate comic life is your idea of a good night out, you shouldn't miss Matt Elsbury.
Elsbury is eager to halt the decline of meaning. Words, he insists, have come increasingly to signify nothing, and he does a commendable job of restoring joy to language.

Corporate newspeak is amusing rather than annoying in this performance.

Elsbury gives the audience new bespoke job titles. He traces the etymology and overuse of words like "technician" and generally takes us on a bleak and funny tour of a world drained of truth.