Don’t come to Dan Rath’s new show expecting something coherent. “It doesn’t make sense,” he mutters after one joke. “It doesn’t have to, the way we’re going.” What you can expect is one of the highest joke-per-minute ratios in the Melbourne international comedy festival.
Help Me Please begins with a musical interlude, stretching until you can feel the audience begin to wonder if something has gone wrong. This pause is the only moment of stillness in the show – from the moment Rath steps on stage, he delivers a relentless string of one-liners and short bits back-to-back for the full hour.
