{"id":85441,"date":"2025-08-21T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85441\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:14:11","slug":"joel-creasey-perth-raised-comic-and-radio-star-to-perform-at-wa-comedy-week-with-stand-up-janelle-koenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85441\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Creasey: Perth-raised comic and radio star to perform at WA Comedy Week with stand-up Janelle Koenig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perth-raised comic Joel Creasey is a dog dad to \u201cGirlfriend\u201d, an elephant dad to \u201cBoyfriend\u201d, a fiance to Jack, and a \u201cFIFO uncle\u201d to his family in WA.<\/p>\n

Sound confusing? Not to the 35-year-old, who balances comedy tours with his Nova radio day job and dream holidays in Europe.<\/p>\n

Creasey is set to return to his hometown this weekend, where he\u2019ll be performing a 90-minute set alongside stand-up mate Janelle Koenig on Saturday, titled Joel and Janelle Have Stories to Tell.<\/p>\n

The third iteration of the show promises all the stories Creasey can\u2019t tell over the airwaves or on TV \u2014 from behind the scenes at Eurovision, to Mardi Gras, and everything in between.<\/p>\n

And he has assured PerthNow, no matter how unbelievable or defamatory, they absolutely happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an autobiographical comedian, so all my stories are true stories about my life,\u201d Creasey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI throw barbs out at other people, but the biggest joke, the biggest person that gets flamed on stage is absolutely myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JoelCamera IconJoel Creasey and his fiance Jack Stratton-Smith. Credit: Joel Creasey\/IG\/IG<\/p>\n

Having lived in Melbourne for 16 years, the professional talker has found several differences between live audiences across Australia, and reckons East Coast fans don\u2019t appreciate how good they\u2019ve got it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerth audiences are fun because they\u2019re A: intelligent, B: like to drink, perfect combo. So they get the jokes, but they also are up for a laugh, up for a laugh at themselves, up for a laugh at everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMelbourne and Sydney audiences, they\u2019re fantastic, but they are very spoiled. Because you can go out any night of the week and see a Hughesy or kitty Flanagan for $10,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The experienced performer has brought 15 solo comedy shows to Perth in his time, but admits he hasn\u2019t always had the tools to wrangle a crowd. Especially a regional one.<\/p>\n

\"JoelCamera IconJoel Creasey will perform with Janelle Koenig. Credit: Joel Creasey\/IG\/IG<\/p>\n

He recalled a harrowing experience while on tour with the Melbourne Comedy Festival road show in Esperance more than a decade ago, with patrons permitted to BYO alcohol into the venue. Sometimes whole slabs of beer, Creasey squirmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was 21, I reckon I was on stage for two minutes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just did not know how to handle it. It was so much, it was so overwhelming, I was out of it. I was well and truly heckled off the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

A master of observational comedy, Creasey is far less observant when he\u2019s framed in the centre of attention against his will.<\/p>\n

Or rather, when the audience is his own friends, and the stage is in another country.<\/p>\n

Travelling to Italy last September to see visit his manager, who also manages his mate Dannii Minogue, name drop, Creasey was blissfully unaware that his partner Jack Stratton-Smith had planned a \u201clow key\u201d engagement in the Southern region of Puglia.<\/p>\n

A day of eating pasta and sightseeing quickly turned official.<\/p>\n

\u201cJack got down on one knee and I still wasn\u2019t clued in, I was like, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019, I was like, \u2018Right in public, this is weird and kinky\u2019,\u201d the comic recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I noticed, because we were taking photos of friends with beautiful scenery behind us, \u2018Why has everyone got their phone out to take a photo of me and Jack? That\u2019s really weird\u2019. Then I looked over (again), he\u2019s down on one knee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creasey was especially stunned because his previous relationships had not ended on his terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been dumped like, three or four times. I think I was going for a world record. Then I was the one that got proposed to, that\u2019s why I was speechless,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n

While the pair\u2019s wedding has not quite been locked in, and kids are not yet on the horizon, Creasey has done the next most responsible thing.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s adopted a baby elephant in South Africa, just this month, who he \u201csaved\u201d from poachers. No joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur dog is called Girlfriend. So the elephant was re-homed because he lost his family. The elephant is called Boyfriend,\u201d Creasey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the poor game rangers on this reserve are like, \u2018Serious? So when we take people out, we have to say that\u2019s Boyfriend the elephant?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, yeah you do\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth-raised comic Joel Creasey is a dog dad to \u201cGirlfriend\u201d, an elephant dad to \u201cBoyfriend\u201d, a fiance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,9771,134,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-85441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-comedy","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}