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 LAWRENCE LEUNG is cute and he’s got skillz. In town as part of Brisbane Festival’s Carnival’s Edge, his live show Sucker mixes the awkward indie boy we all know and love with a significantly more bad-ass edge. Yup, there’s swearing, there’s swindling, and there’s not a Rubik’s Cube in sight. TESS CURRAN chats to the man behind the beard about lollipops, Megan Fox, and things that really suck.
TESS CURRAN: Tell us a bit about Sucker?
LAWRENCE LEUNG: Sucker is my live show I’m performing at the Brisbane Festival inside this beautiful 90 year-old French wooden theatre they’ve erected in the Forecourt behind QPAC. It’s a storytelling stand-up show about this old street swindler I met when I was 17. He was a man who could literally talk you into taking money out of your pockets and giving it to him. I expose various street scams and swindles and demonstrate some kick-ass poker cheating techniques. Come if you want to learn classic grifting scams. But promise not to use them!
TC: Are you a sucker?
LL: Yes.
1) I always fall for cute girls who are musos/writers/artists who just want to be friends, or are super-cool lesbians.
2) Once again, because of childhood nostalgia, I was sucked into watching the new Transformers movie. I want more giant robots beating the crap out of each other and less US Army and Megan Fox’s curvy ass saving the day.
3) I instinctively say sorry when I collide into someone in the street, even when it was their fault. If I got hit by a car I’d probably apologise as I smash through the windscreen.
4) I hate commercial music but every time Beyonce’s Crazy In Love comes on, my indie-snob facade evaporates and I am transformed into a gyrating dance-diva.
TC: What do you suck most at?
LL: Lollipops. Icy poles. Ice-creams. And Q&A interviews.
TC: What is the worst thing that can go wrong during a live show, and has this happened to you?
LL: Veteran comedian Tommy Cooper famously died of a heart attack during a performance on TV. This hasn’t happened to me.
TC: Are you enjoying your stay in Brisbane? (be honest)
LL: Yes, I love your CityCat during a dust storm. River views and asthma attacks together at last. Breathtaking.
TC: What’s it like flat-mating with a mind reader (Philip Escoffey)?
LL: Awkward. He knows who stole the last bit of his milk.
TC: Do you get sick of people asking you to do your Rubik’s Cube?
LL: No, I would never tell people to piss off.
TC: Do you have it with you now?
LL: Piss off.
TC: What has been your strangest/most awkward fan moment?
LL: Random girls sometimes come up to me and pull my hair. It’s a reference to the scene in my first TV episode where this American pick-up artist claims pulling a girl’s hair will make her fall for you. Frankly, it’s odd.
TC: Where will we be seeing you in the future?
LL: In the short term, tonight at 9pm, at my show Sucker, under the giant Ferris wheel. On telly again, perhaps .... Hush for now.
TC: And finally, do you have a message for the ladies?
LL: Don’t pull my hair.
LAWRENCE LEUNG performs nightly at 9pm at The Carnival’s Edge, South Bank QPAC Forecourt (underneath the giant Ferris wheel) until October 3 – that’s THIS SATURDAY, so hurry along you little scamps! Check out www.abc.net.au/tv/lawrence for more information.
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