{"id":3572,"date":"2025-02-28T06:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2025-02-28T06:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:48:58","slug":"observer-purple-is-the-gayest-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/02\/28\/observer-purple-is-the-gayest-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Purple is the gayest colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alayne Dick never forgets an insult, in fact she wrote a whole show about it. Purple is the Gayest Colour will be presented at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from March 26-April 6 at Tasma Terrace.<br>Following sold-out seasons at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and the New Zealand Fringe Festival, Alayne is bringing her debut stand-up hour to Melbourne.<br>Alayne&#8217;s comedy show tells of growing up queer in rural New Zealand, reading fanfiction on dial-up internet, being a walking stereotype (a librarian with terrible eyesight who is very hot), and finally, becoming a Bunnings gay.<br>During her New Zealand seasons, people from Alayne\u2019s high school came and she didn&#8217;t even feel weird about it. She also made a scissoring joke in front of her very supportive parents which Alayne says \u201cwas harrowing, but when you\u2019re dedicated to comedy, these are the feats of bravery required\u201d.<br>Performance Season: March 26 &#8211; April 6 at 7.25pm<br>Venue: Tasma Terrace, 4 Parliament Place, East Melbourne<br>Bookings: comedyfestival.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cheryl Threadgold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alayne Dick never forgets an insult, in fact she wrote a whole show about it. Purple is the Gayest Colour will be presented at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from March 26-April 6 at Tasma Terrace.Following sold-out seasons at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and the New Zealand Fringe Festival, Alayne is bringing her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}