OLGA KOCH COMES FROM MONEY
As the audience eagerly waited for the show to start The Beatles BABY, YOU’RE A RICH MAN was playing over the sound system, foreshadowing themes Olga Koch explored during her enormously funny routine.
Olga admits that someone from her background is an unlikely comic but her self-awareness and willingness to dismiss that self-awareness precludes this show from becoming a lecture, a confessional or an hour of pity porn. Olga knows that much of her life is not easily related to by her audience. If your arm is not long enough for a selfie who has a butler to assist? The package of maids, cooks, butlers, piano lessons, face-lifts, ponies and your father’s mistress are not the regular experience for most people.
Olga started her show with a friendly chat to some audience members in the front row about the redundancy of male nipples, 5G and COVID, and Liza Minelli as a gay icon. She told the audience that the show would start soon but she was obviously enjoying herself and wanted the audience to share in that joy.
When the show proper commenced Olga had a string of questions she has been asked along the lines of how rich her family is and where did the money come from. She has sharp observations and cutting witticisms on these and similar questions. Olga has lived in Russia, Britain and the United States and her observations about the different approaches to wealth in these countries is both very amusing and deeply profound.
Having studied and worked in the technology field her observations about tech companies and their drive to fix the world through free speech and citizen journalism are both insightful and humorous. This mixture of understanding, perception and comedy is a feature of Olga’s show and continues on in the many topics she examines.
OLGA KOCH COMES FROM MONEY is on at the Comedy Store, Moore Park, as part of the Sydney Comedy Festival 2025, tonight, Sunday 27th April before moving onto Brisbane and New Zealand. It is highly recommended.
