An aspiring comedian has tickled the funny bone of thousands of Illawarra residents with his satirical take on Wollongong and its people.
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S*it You'll Never Hear in Wollongong is a five-minute honeypot of regional in-jokes devised by Ben "Frenchy" French and his friends and uploaded to Youtube on Thursday.
The jokes are delivered as a series of tightly edited truisms between French and his friends, under the premise that the opposite is true.
The opening lines poke fun at the city's lacklustre Monday night atmosphere.
"I'm so hungover from last night," French says.
"Same man.
"Monday nights in the Gong are just too big."
The clip has since clocked up more than 35,000 views.
It tackles some risque material, with night spots, parking rangers and the city's tourism slogan all offered up for gentle ridicule.
French, a 26-year-old northern suburbs native who recently moved to Sydney in search of his big break in the stand-up comedy circuit, said he started thinking of lines after viewing similar clips that poked fun at other cities, such as Canberra.
"I had to do one about Wollongong," French said.
"We pooled ideas. Some of them we just made up on the spot, like when we were mucking around outside Greater Union cinema."
French worked as a high school PE teacher after graduating from the University of Wollongong and still works on a casual basis at some area schools.
He is studying film and knocking on the doors of stand-up venues in Sydney in hope of cracking the "difficult" industry.
