Yawp Mag ISSUE 19 Getting Ready for the Comedy Festival | Page 34

What it's like
for Dilruk to win
the poster competition
Winning the YAWP poster competition brought some
right. The $200 plakkit voucher plus the full page ad in the
were sneakier.

Firstly it helped me a lot because I’m
a lazy comedian.
I mean I do work hard in some areas. Like
I’ll bust my arse sitting at the back of a
comedy gig around 6 nights of the week,
and hopefully I’d be performing on most
of those nights. But if I’m not doing that

Some of these friends didn’t even realise I was
doing a comedy festival show and I know for a
fact I sold more tickets because of it.

But the coolest thing was so many
of my mates really wanted to
support me,

my dickhole. I’m lazy and weird. So the
poster competition forced me to get off so they shared it on their walls too. I don’t think
the couch, put my cock away and kick my any of them would’ve done this had it not been
part of a competition. The poster got way more
marketing in to gear.
exposure than it ever would’ve if I had just kept it

It made me not only, at the very
least, share the poster more
frequently, but also made me
actively ask my friends to go check
it out and give it a “LIKE”.

plan). In fact while I was at the Adelaide Fringe
a few weeks later, a random punter asked me
whether I was the guy that recently won an
online poster competition. How cool? But yeah,
I told the guy to piss off coz not all brown people
win poster competitions. It’s just a bullshit racist
stereotype.
Going head to head with Alan Driscoll’s poster
was interesting.