This is my very funny and very dear friend George McEncroe performing stand up at Spleen Bar in Melbourne. It was an awesome and hilarious night, with a sweet but sombre mood — just two nights earlier, bushfires had ripped through the state of Victoria, leaving over 200 dead and thousands homeless. Spleen hosted this night as a fundraiser (which explains all the fireman, swear jar and sorrow references).

Every act displayed a stratospheric degree of awesomeness. (My favourite non-George joke, from this other really funny guy: "Elderly people are often too frail to receive all their birthday punches.") I wish I'd filmed them all, but I came over all self-conscious and worried they'd sue my arse over intellectual property issues.

George has a show in the 2009 Melbourne Comedy Festival. It's called the Georgina Monologues. (Geddit? Like because Georgina if you say it funny rhymes with Vagina. See?) More info at comedyfestival.com.au. Please come to her show, and approach me (I will be the chick that claps and whoo-hoos too loudly in order to make it obvious I am Friends With The Performer), and give me advice about being a better filmmaker. If you do, I will love you forever.

True.