THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ETHNIC
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Thursday, August 22
Centro CBD, Wollongong
Tickets: Phone 42253556
Comedian George Kapiniaris is having a busy day within a busy year.
He's just picked up his four-year-old son from kindergarten and dropped him off for a play date.
"Really, I'm trying to help my wife so I'm sacrificing footy and golf," he says.
"My wife's been talking about having a third [child] and so I read her the riot act the other day."
Humour aside, Kapiniaris goes on to say he relishes the chance to be at home with his wife and two sons, Peter, 4, and John, 2.
"Peter's good but he's more the emotional one - he's the one to miss dad when I'm not around."
The Acropolis Now star has been busy touring the country in the stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, with the production travelling to Perth in September.
As soon as Kapiniaris's mates Joe Avati, Tahir and Rob Shehadie figured he'd be having a few months off the production between now and September, they saw it as the perfect time to get the Greek Australian from Melbourne on board their latest plan.
Their new instalment of political incorrectness is The Good The Bad and The Ethnic, which was performed to a sell-out audience at its first Wollongong show last month.
"We've even gone for a dance-off," Kapiniaris says, hinting at what's in store in the show, which also includes video presentations and magic.
"There's an impersonation of One Direction - it's called Wog Direction."
Ricky Martin and Facebook are other topics brought up in the show, which Kapiniaris describes as "we talk about 2013 and how we got to 2013".
Kapiniaris says he's always eager to work again with the comic trio, who are not only colleagues, but have been mates over the past 20 years.
"Rob, he's the new kid on the block, he's a Lebanese teddy bear," says Kapiniaris.
"Tahir is as strange as ever, but brilliant, and Joe's the rock."
Kapiniaris says he enjoys mixing comedy with musical stage productions, with The Good The Bad and The Ethnic doing more than 40 shows within three months.
"One is very sterile and clinical and then to do our show there's the fun and flexibility," he says.
"It's a really good challenge and I think I'm a stronger performer now."