Sweeney Preston
Culture Reporter (A Story of Breaking News & Broken Hearts)
Winner Best Comedy Weekly Award 2024 Perth FRINGE WORLD
Winner Best In Category Award 2024 Adelaide Fringe 2024
Winner Best Comedy Dunedin Fringe NZ 2023
For nearly three years, comedian-journalist Sweeney Preston (Writer for Spicks and Specks, Sold Out Season Edinburgh Fringe 2024) wrote relationship and dating articles while his own love life was in the toilet.
Now, with the clarity of hindsight, Sweeney relives the most hysterical intersections between his own life and the articles he was writing at the time – some of which have been read by over 100,000 people.
Sometimes, we all just want someone to tell us what to do. But when the person giving the advice has no clue either... Can those who can't do even teach? Are the romantically inept, leading the romantically inept?
From radio interviews gone awry, to a couples getaway attended solo to an ending that might have you questioning every piece of advice you’ve ever been given, this hilarious, surreal and poignant debut solo hour is an uplifting celebration of mistakes told the only way Sweeney knows how – through jokes, stories and a big f#%ken PowerPoint.
If you're a fan of Sex and the City or if you’ve ever had sex while living in a city, this show is for you.
'Charmingly silly.' ★★★★ The Age
'Serves up laugh after laugh.' ★★★★ Time Out
'The execution is flawless.' ★★★★ Beat Magazine
'Simply heaps of fun.' ★★★★ The List (UK)
Suitable for audiences 18+
Language – occasional coarse language
Winner Best Comedy Weekly Award 2024 Perth FRINGE WORLD
Winner Best In Category Award 2024 Adelaide Fringe 2024
Winner Best Comedy Dunedin Fringe NZ 2023
For nearly three years, comedian-journalist Sweeney Preston (Writer for Spicks and Specks, Sold Out Season Edinburgh Fringe 2024) wrote relationship and dating articles while his own love life was in the toilet.
Now, with the clarity of hindsight, Sweeney relives the most hysterical intersections between his own life and the articles he was writing at the time – some of which have been read by over 100,000 people.
Sometimes, we all just want someone to tell us what to do. But when the person giving the advice has no clue either... Can those who can't do even teach? Are the romantically inept, leading the romantically inept?
From radio interviews gone awry, to a couples getaway attended solo to an ending that might have you questioning every piece of advice you’ve ever been given, this hilarious, surreal and poignant debut solo hour is an uplifting celebration of mistakes told the only way Sweeney knows how – through jokes, stories and a big f#%ken PowerPoint.
If you're a fan of Sex and the City or if you’ve ever had sex while living in a city, this show is for you.
'Charmingly silly.' ★★★★ The Age
'Serves up laugh after laugh.' ★★★★ Time Out
'The execution is flawless.' ★★★★ Beat Magazine
'Simply heaps of fun.' ★★★★ The List (UK)
Suitable for audiences 18+
Language – occasional coarse language
