Justin Heazlewood
Presents Lime Champions
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Come comedy festival I would often appear on Aural Text with Alicia Sometimes and Steve Grimwade. In 2008 I began appearing regularly on their show as The Bedroom Philosopher, doing funny lists and songs. These appearances led to me being asked to do a summer-fill during January 09 from which Lime Champions was born.
What/when was your first show?
Lime Champions is my first show. It features stylish scripted comedy and miscellanea.
What's your favourite Triple R story?
In 2006 I was performing in the 'Big Laugh Out' for Melbourne Comedy Festival. This was an outdoor daytime gig at federation square to bemused parents and still children. The Comedy Channel were sponsoring the event and had a guy in a Comedy Channel Purple Star suit running around. I made up a song called 'let's all push over the Comedy Channel Star." Within fifteen seconds, a couple of teenage punks sprinted over and crash tackled the star to the ground. The actor inside the star was hurt as he fell on his battery pack. He was very angry with me. He went to the police and pressed charges against me for inciting violence. I went on RRR and spoke about the incident. I was told to ring up a local police sergeant to give my side of the story. He said he'd been listening to the radio in the car and had heard my story and said that would do for a statement and there was no case.
Your favourite other Triple R program and why?
I like Aural Text because they play funny and engaging sound bites from Arrested Development and Charles Bukowski and aren't afraid to drop the odd novelty song.
What does Triple R mean to you?
Triple R is cool and if you've got a RRR sticker on your bike then it doesn't matter how many Counting Crow albums are hidden away in your ipod, you're just cool. It's a community stereoblast that hasn't been tainted by the commercial jackhammer and decent, open minded, fruit and vegetable eating folk will be drawn to such things like periwinkles to a rock.
The studio door has accidentally jammed shut with you stuck inside. If there was only one CD in there with you what would you want it to be and why?
IT'D BE SOME OBSCURE INDIE BAND FROM MONTREAL THAT I WOULDN'T LIKE - I'D BE RINGING RECEPTION BEGGING THEM TO SLIP ME SOME KINKS UNDER THE DOOR LIKE MEDICINE. SORRY I'M SHOUTING I'M ON A TRAM.
Justin
if you could dream any dream what would it be?
I am a Japanese Bowie inspired superhero, half robot, half Indian God of humour
and I am flying into the centre of a metal planet, the final stage of the
Arcade Game Xain'D Sleena and inside there is a massive intergalactic
interdimensional party and everyone from existence is there, especially ACDC,
Audrey Hepburn and Clare from Six Feet Under. I end up in a time traveling
bouncy castle with a young John Cleese, Beck, Tina Fey, The Beatles and KITT
from Knight Rider and at one point Tina and I kiss and then laugh A LOT and we
all end up in a Medieval festival in 1500 going nuts and playing pictionary
with our laser fingers. Just before I wake up I'm making out with Marylin
Monroe on top of Mount Everest covered in massive fur jackets while The Rolling
Stones and Nick Drake jam on an acoustic version of 'Across The Universe.'
