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So the essential questions now are, is the CGI working for Puppetry of the Penis? And might there be a time when dick-based CGI creations (of which, it may be argued, David Tench was one) successfully interview celebrities? The drawbacks were that CGI technology was not quite up to the task at the time, and the animation was too human – an animal or some other object may have proven more disarming for interview subjects. In the final show, guest Andrew Denton spoke of his show David Tench Tonight, in which the main character David Tench was a CGI character animated in real time, interviewing celebrities. Stand-Up Sit-Down consisted of interviews with comedy practitioners.

My conversation with Simon Morley happens to be taking place not too long after my own Melbourne Comedy Festival show, Stand-Up Sit-Down, has ended. “I just hope people enjoy it,” says Simon. €œThen,” Simon says, “I began to realise that the technology was very soon going to be with us.” Thus the new show is groundbreaking and interesting as well as fun. The guys have to leap off stage to avoid it…”Įxcellent spectacle though dick tricks are, who’d have thought you could breath such new life into them? According to Simon, the constant question has always been, “What are you going to do with the show? Where are you going to take it next?” And the'd always answer – jokingly – that next it’d be in 3-D: the penises would jump off the screen. “In a tribute to North by Northwest, we put ‘The Propeller’ in a biplane that comes out at the audience. And a little bit scary.Īnother – far more elaborate – example of the CGI involves ‘The Propeller’.

€œWe’re using CGI” - computer generated imagery - “so that when the guys perform, say, ‘The Pelican’ on stage, the camera is 3-D, the screen is 3-D, but all of a sudden, we’ll put ‘The Pelican’ into a pelican’s body.” However, there’s still more to it than that. So the new 3-D show, you can easily imagine, would be that, but with the technology (and glasses!) to ensure what you see is coming at you (so to speak) out of the screen. If you haven’t seen Puppetry of the Penis live (or on DVD) before, it essentially works as follows: the two 'puppeteers' make shapes out of their nether regions, accompanied by banter. Thus, in his own words, Simon’s role is “directing. He developed it in the UK, and is presenting it here in Australia, premiering in the final week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The show is “technically a lot more advanced” than any of the previous Puppetry of the Penis endeavors. Instead, Simon’s been working on pulling the 3-D technology together. I haven’t seen my penis in about three years.” In which neither Simon, nor his penis, will be appearing, because, he says, penis puppetry is “a young man's game”. Now, nearly a decade-and-a-half later, they’re launching a live 3-D version of the show.

And after taking dick tricks around the world, and taking the world by storm, they started producing shows in which other dick tricksters took the stage all over the world, manipulating their respective manhood.

In time they were playing the West End and Broadway, getting written up in the likes of The Guardian and The New Yorker. Because, after about the first fifteen minutes, you’d pretty much acclimatise to the fact that there are two nude dudes pulling at their respective (not each other’s!) cock-and-balls on stage, and as it wasn’t in the more traditionally prurient manner of tugging yer tackle, you may as well have been looking at their elbows. That was back in 1998, and it occurred with much furor, initially, all of it unwarranted. And ‘The Propeller’ (I’m not going to ruin all of them for you). And ‘The Skateboard’ (in which the penis is lain across the scrotum so that the balls become wheels). Like ‘The Pelican’ (in which the penis and scrotum are impressively stretched out to resemble the animal’s long upper beak, and long and deep lower beak). Simon and his mate Friendy (David Friend neither of whom are pictured above) were the two who originally took to the stage clad only in capes in order to present the art of genital origami: in which they’d manipulate their manhood into various shapes. “I’ve been baby wrangling.” And unless Simon’s added ‘cot’ or ‘cradle’ to the impressive list of items he can imitate with his wedding tackle, there are no dick tricks involved in that. €œSorry I was a bit late,” the founding – ahem – member of Puppetry of the Penis, Simon Morley, apologises from his end of the phone line.