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Jerry ’80s enough with, from far right, Barack Obama, the for retro duo Seinfeld cast, and wife Jessica. duo Client Liaison have roped in to head back to the future, writes Cameron Adams

Write your dreams down. which is absurdity. People see us Melbourne musical duo riding in a limousine and think Client Liaison are proof it it’s absurd and they smile. We’ll works. On an APRA grant them that. But there’s no songwriting camp with set-up for a punchline, we’re Mr Hudson (Kanye West, not here for that. Duran Duran) and Dann “People don’t listen to our Hume, the topic of the official music and laugh. We’re not in Client Liaison car — a Toyota the business of making people Soarer — was mentioned. laugh we’re in the business of Mr Hudson told them making people dance.” “No, you need a limousine. The pair think their genuine An off-white limousine.” love of ’80s and early ’90s music Not only did it turn into a may make some feel they’re title of the standout track from less credible or serious. their debut album Diplomatic “No one ever questions Immunity, Monte Morgan and why people make rock music,” Harvey Miller AO are now the Miller says. “We feel the same owners of an actual off-white way about the eras we take limousine, circa 1982. from, the ’80s and early ’90s, “We like to take an idea and where our interests in music really run with it,” Miller says. were born, those synthesisers They’re in the process of and palettes of sound. turning the limo into a rental “And why is it not a gimmick car, the Client Liaison to wear tight rocker jeans and Limousine Service, which could a rockabilly hat but it is to wear fund their musical activities. acid wash jeans and a suit? I’d They’re putting an ’80s- argue those people are era TV, Foster’s on ice further stuck in the and hot towels in “We’re not past than we are.” the vehicle ready in the business Last New Year’s for weddings, of making people Eve Client Liaison laugh we’re in Jerry Seinfeld is formals, anything. the business of recruited Daryl “Everyone’s making people Braithwaite to one of the biggest driving these dance” sing The Horses gross new limos and with them. Hummers,” Morgan says. For Diplomatic comedy names on “Bring back the romantic Immunity they wrote a song idea of the limousine. ” called A Foreign Affair that the planet, but he Client Liaison are not referenced Tina Arena’s past your average musical act. Since without a shout out to a beach still loves playing their debut EP two years ago in Sorrento. It’s now a duet they’ve made music videos for with her. small clubs and everything they’ve released. “Tina Arena is Australia’s “It is not the wisest financial Beyonce,” Miller says. working for seven decision but hopefully we’ve “People dancing to the got a cult following because of song will take care of any years on a joke, as that, a dedicated following,” criticism some people might Morgan says. have,” Morgan says. Tiffany Bakker The pair are often accused “There was an ‘F’ word in of being ironic or a novelty act. the lyrics she took out. She said discovers They insist that is not the case. ‘That’s not classy’. And she “I feel we sidestep the irony,” was right. Time and place.” Miller says. “If you do anything with conviction it renders it HEAR DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY ’S with a seriousness. There’s one (DOT DASH/REMOTE CONTROL) T access point of humour to us, OUT TOMORROW THA , G OLD ERRY! J MHSE01Z01MA - V1 HERALDSUN.COM.AU THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016 HIT 41

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Jerry Seinfeld, a fanatical New York Mets fan, likes to use a baseball analogy when From beach describing stand-up comedy. But for the purposes of an Australian audience, he’s decided that he’ll use a surfing to billboard one instead. “In surfing, there’s a lot of work until you get to the A road film starring untrained actors moment,” says the comedian, over coffee at an Upper East has put Sasha Lane on Side hotel, which is close to the New York home he shares with map, writes Andrew Fenton wife Jessica and their three children. “There’s the schlepping of the board, the waxing, the paddling, the Sasha Lane was sunbathing eyes were opened by it,” Lane waiting. And all for that rushed “Let’s have some fun on a Florida beach during her says. “I think she saw the real moment when everything along the way school holidays when a British version of America, what’s happens suddenly and you’re woman offered her the chance really going on.” flying through the air on around all of this to audition for a film with Shooting the movie was just pure natural energy. other stuff” Shia LaBeouf. like working on a mag crew. “And that’s what “I was like sure you’re doing a “It was like the film 20 times performing stand-up is like: SEINFELD O N T H E movie,” laughs the 21-year-old, over. We stayed in those motels it’s a lot of work to get there, ROLE OF COMEDY who had never even considered and drove around in the van so and it’s all for that moment acting as a career. there’s hours and hours of more when you get caught by a like it, you can heckle, you “I said they could come back film and hours and hours of us wave and the next thing you can walk out, or don’t buy to my hotel room that night but just hanging out, living that know you’re flying through tickets, but you really can’t stop I really didn’t think they would.” mag crew life, which helped the air.” us saying whatever we want. Director Andrea Arnold and keep us in it (the reality).” Seinfeld has been flying The (US) Constitution protects casting agent Amy BonFleur They even bumped into through the air professionally your freedom of speech.” did swing by, of course, and a real mag crew. for a good 30 years (he’s 62, As for that show about after a week spent improvising “The African-American not that there’s anything nothing, Seinfeld reckons he’s scenes and going “out for ice mag crew you see in the movie, wrong with that). now “prouder than ever” of it cream” and talking about “life they were real, and we came out His career first took off in (“because it has stood the test of and stuff”, she got the role. of the motel one day and they the US in the early 1980s after time”), but he is unsentimental Now she’s the breakout star were outside. It was really cool his appearances on The Tonight about the experience. of indie movie American Honey, having a lot of conversations Show (Johnny Carson loved America is in the death throes “It’s like talking about when according to Variety, and was and hearing what they had to him), but the comedian became of a bizarre and vitriolic you were a kid,” he says with a feted at the Cannes Film say and … they were like a global icon thanks to Seinfeld election, he hasn’t said much shrug. “Because people always Festival for her performance. ‘Yeah, man, this is real’.” — the TV show he created with onstage about either Donald say, when I was a kid I did this Last year she was a student; Transformers star LaBeouf friend Larry David — which is Trump or Hillary Clinton. or remember we did that, and now she’s doing fashion puts in one of his best considered one of the greatest “It’s more than an election it’s a pleasant thought, but it’s shoots for Vogue in Paris. performances as an television series ever (but more cycle at this point,” he says. not relevant any more. “That’s bizarre — experienced salesman on that later). “It’s a cultural tumble.” “When I think about doing every day I’m who takes Star Now he’s heading back to He has, however, enjoyed the show, I was single then and literally saying “This is under his wing and Australia, a country he hasn’t watching his old pal Alec I was living in Los Angeles ‘wow’,” Lane more our begins a volatile Jerry Seinfeld is territory, a performed stand-up in since Baldwin skewer Trump via a … it’s another version of me.” says. “It’s pretty story by relationship 1998 when he toured to avoid superb imitation on Saturday More recently, he’s turned overwhelming.” non-actors” with her. one of the biggest the hoopla that surrounded Night Live. his focus to the online series All told, 11 cast Lane doesn’t the airing of Seinfeld’s last “He’s fun to watch, and Comedians in Cars members in American rate Transformers comedy names on episode in the US. Trump said he stinks and wants Getting Coffee. Honey were non-actors but loved his work in “I love the Australian the show cancelled. It’s so great.” The show, which has discovered in car parks and on ’s Elastic Heart videoclip the planet, but he attitude and personality. It’s As for those who reckon featured the likes of President construction sites. Lane plays (the interpretative dance like a perfect place to do comedy that political correctness has Barack Obama (“the funniest Star, a teenager with nothing cage match). And she had few still loves playing because people want to have a marked the end of comedy, president ever”), Louis CK, to lose who gets caught up in qualms about acting opposite good time,” he says with a smile. Seinfeld isn’t having a bar of it. John Oliver, Jon Stewart and the nomadic lifestyle of a a bona fide Hollywood star, small clubs and “Australians are professional “People like to complain. Sarah Silverman, began because “magazine crew” — a hard- despite her manifest lack of fun-havers. That’s the way I see I know I do,” he says wryly. he thought it would be a good partying bunch of misfits who experience or training. working for seven Australians and that’s what “But I disagree with comedians opportunity to have a chat with travel the US in a mini-van “I wasn’t nervous about comedy is. who are intimidated by it or his friends without the formality selling subscriptions. They acting with someone who has years on a joke, as “Let’s have some fun along concerned about it. I think we of cameras and a set. work on commission while acted before,” she says. “Coming the way around all of this other still get to say “I thought, I’d like to be paying their bosses for travel from my point of view, me and Tiffany Bakker stuff that we have to do in life.” whatever we a talk-show host, but I don’t expenses and accommodation the rest of the kids had an The show, he says, will be want, and if really want to talk to most of in dive motels. advantage because this is more discovers similar to the one he’s currently you don’t the people that you would have The unconventional our territory, a story by non- performing during a residency to talk to,” he says, “and I don’t coming-of-age tale won the actors, and it was very authentic at New York’s Beacon Theatre. want to have to do the show Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize. and real, so it was more ‘can Seinfeld says his comedy every night, so I’d rather Arnold researched the film he get down with this’, not me ’S evolves “slowly”. “I’ve been just talk to people that by travelling from California to being scared to be on his level.” T working on a joke about a I like.” Miami with a real mag crew. tuxedo for seven years, Seinfeld does get cranky, “It hit her very hard and her SEE AMERICAN HONEY IS OUT NOW A and I still can’t quite however, when people get it.” ask him, given his TH When he’s massive wealth, working on new why he still even material, he says bothers to work. , he’ll do a set at “I’ll be doing D the same New this when I’m 85,” L York comedy he says. “This is O clubs he not like work to started out in. me, anyway. “I always If there were joke about it, funner things to like, what am do, I promise G I doing here? you, I would be I made it. I don’t doing them.” need to be here! But you do. SEE JERRY Comedians do SEINFELD, need to be back in HISENSE ARENA, Y! these places.” AUGUST 6. R One thing he’s never TICKETEK, R been is a political comic. ON SALE E And even though NOVEMBER 14 J V1 - MHSE01Z01MA