As a tribute of our own success in this event, we decided not to blog about this event until now.

WHY?

As you might've noticed from the title, the event date is on 25 October but heck, our very first contact with our client dates back to 26 April (THAT'S A WHOPPING 6 MONTHS IN BETWEEN!). This is arguably the longest project we've taken on, so, to commemorate this memorable feat, we decided to take a longer time to blog this.
OK, the 'we decided to take a longer time to blog this' bit was pure bullshit. We are just busy with our JOKE AJE shoots and coming out with believable excuses.

This Synovate (pronounced See-NO-V-8. We only learnt about this in the llth hour. Previously, we kept saying 'saino', saino', 'saino'...) project was by far the most difficult; difficult in a sense that we're so 'dry' on ideas specifically for this project. For a start, maybe I should've explained the reasons for this but doing now same difference right? Basically, our client wanted to move away from the traditional MS Power Point presentation and give their facts and figures 'some life'. Those facts and figures evolve around stereotypical groups in Malaysians and supposedly, we have 9 main groups. So, for this arduous task, who better to call than The ComeBackKings lah (che wah! bangge siut!).

Our priority was to portray these 9 groups 'comedically' and 'entertainingly' possible without moving away from the facts and figures. As easy as it sounds, comedy is never easy. We practically utilized the whole 6 months that we're given. The 9 groups were mashed into 6 two-minute skits with each King playing multiple roles, except King Ronnie, who played the main character, a census surveyor.

The stage was tiny and no breaks for costume changes mean that everything must be done on stage. Luckily, the crowd treated cross-dressing, cross-dressers and, most of all, cross-dressers cross-dressing, very well.

Along the way, we came out with countless storylines, suffered through countless nights without sleep, cracked countless jokes (some lifelessly lame), made countless trips to our client's office but during the show night, drank countless bottles for beer in return.The fee wasn't that rewarding but nevertheless, we had the most fun. At the end of the day, applause is all we want to hear and what great applause we received that night!

Since you readers missed this private event, here is a random line from our script that day:

Census Surveyor

'He he, err. No, its just a question. Next,

do you have internet connection?'

Hope you enjoyed that bit. If you didn't, you should've been there. He he.

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