Canny Kate Raises Tokyo Comedy Bar

Acerbic Aussie comedian Kate Hanley Corley‘s razor sharp wit got a cosmopolitan crowd (including superfans who traveled to Japan just to see her) at the Tokyo Comedy Club guffawing loudly.

The comedian on a whirlwind tour of Japan put on a rapid-fire display of comedy focused on love, marriage, life and motherhood, using flawless delivery to tap into French, German and Swedish influences at times and touch a nerve with a multicultural crowd including Neddie* from Norwich, Chie* from Chofu, Patty* from Paris and Dorothy* from Kansas, enrupturing all comers. And commas**.

She really had her finger on the pulse–and more–with an unbelievably clever and catch tune about an intimate moment of her life that produced belly laughs throughout the venue and showed why she is a must-see act.

The Tokyo Comedy Bar about a 2-minute walk from Keio Inokashira Line Shibya Station bills itself as the home of standup comedy in Japan, offering daily shows in English and Japanese.

Hanley Conley’s show was chaired by an awesome emcee from Kenya, who did a sublime job of warming up the crowd and readying them for some great laughs, with plenty of their own thrown in. And the Aussie comedian was preceded by the deadpan Shota, who gave a racuously funny display of an English learner’s situation in Tokyo.

* Not their real names

** Had to be there

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