the poppies

The Small Poppies are a trio of young sketch comedians heralding from the nation’s capital, brought together by their love of poking fun at tall poppies. Their roots are firmly planted in the ANU Law Revue tradition which has a strong emphasis on smart, socio-political satire. The Small Poppies’ humour is always current and seeks to combine sophistication with irreverence, dick jokes with poo jokes, where ultimately they insult everything except your intelligence. If Stephen Fry and Trey Parker had a love child, it would be the Small Poppies.

Debuting in 2008, the Small Poppies performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and in a sell-out homecoming tour of Canberra with their show Think Inside the Box. Impersonation and spoof are a significant part of the Poppies’ armada. Adam Brodie-McKenzie’s impersonation of John Safran got enough underground buzz that he was invited on to Sunday Night Safran to spar it out with the man himself. The Small Poppies were also invited to do their prophetic Beijing Olympics sketch on Canberra’s Mix 106.3 during their homecoming tour.

In 2009, the Poppies unleashed their second offering of witty satire du jour on the Melbourne Comedy Festival with Poppycock! The Poppies range of skits included the Prime-Minister finding out how to be inspirational from Obama, Jesus trying to bring peace to Israel and Palestine (but they’re too busy fighting each other to listen), the media’s role in the GFC and even a joke about the Victorian bushfires, which always went down a treat. And as Jesus proclaims at the climax of the show, in the end, it’s all just poppycock.

The year 2010 will see the Small Poppies tackle the impending apocalypse in their new show The Small Poppies DON'T CARE (that the end of the world is nigh), set to debut at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in February 2010.

 

 

The Small Poppies listed in alphabetical order of surname, or left to right;

Adam "Brodes" Brodie-McKenzie,

Caitlin "Crumpet" Croucher and

Andrew "Nikolopoulos" Nichols.

The Poppies are managed (on and off stage) by the super-secretive Irishman

Mike "Party Trick" Doman.