User talk:To.digital.mick

July 2022
Hello, I'm Dr.Pinsky. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Jon Doust, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Dr.Pinsky (talk) 10:02, 29 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank for your advice and I do wish you well.
 * I will provide the copy of advertisement - a legal requirement in the process of establishing an Incorporated Association in the day.
 * I also have a copy of the Laugh Resort, Incorporated constitution retrieved from the WA Government agency where registration was effected.
 * A copy of the published editorial of Rove McManus whereby he acknowledges his commencing at Laugh Resort, Incorporated.
 * Rove McManus and Dave Hughes are internationally known and Australiawide most awarded and acclaimed comedic performers and show hosts for the past 25 years across Australia.
 * They have appeared in their own right and have had shows on all 3 commercial networks in Australia and also the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
 * Their names are endemic with light comedy entertainment across Australia. Household names, both.
 * Both were founding news readers for the continuing "The Project" news hour on the CBS Paramount+ Channel 10 in Australia.
 * The following statement is in addition and supporting of the facts of my involvement in theatre arts, comedy, fringe art in Perth at times where these still operating and now mature organisations were commencing, were commenced with my involvement to a greater or lesser degree but strong influence over requirements and completion in the day.


 * Jon Doust has contradicted the public record facts and in contradiction of truth in claiming he had anything to do with the founding and homing of the Laugh Resort Incorporated Association.
 * I have the regulated-by-law public record documentation evidence and
 * I first announced to the comedy community in February, 1991, that I was going to establish an incorporated association for comedy performers.
 * Laugh Resort, Incorporated, has celebrated 30 years in operation recently.
 * [It appears that Doust - who was one of the group whom I advised of my actions - ran out and said HE was doing what I, in fact , was doing. HE was lying.]
 * It is the longest running comedy club in the history of Australian entertainment.
 * I attended to all the detail of the statutory legal requirements, documentation, establishment, operation and ongoing facility for the club to be founded, homed and
 * successes of its performers to the maximum of their talent :
 * I wrote the constitution,
 * I organised and operated the inaugural meeting :
 * I made all arrangements for the inaugural meeting -
 * location, refreshment, food, facility, paid for the costs registration of the name and business,
 * attended to direct negotiation with the venue owners of Pockets Cocktail lounge - who had said they would not provide access to the space without first meeting me,
 * negotiated a new space after 5 years when it became imperative that a new venue was essential after change of Pockets' ownership introduced onerous requirements.
 * Doust was not at the inaugural meeting, I believe there are claims of a photograph proving he was which I have not seen and have been refused access to.
 * I believe the photograph describes Doust with Alan Brown - now a dead heroin junky, and Don Smith, who has himself claimed on his webpage for many years that it was HE (Smith) who was founding member and president of the Laugh Resort, Incorporated.
 * Doust is an alcoholic - according to his advice to me and I further believe his reference in certain places about serious health issues he encountered in the 1980s was in fact his admission of alcohol addiction.
 * A.A. may well teach one how to stop lying about your disease and it, unfortunately, does not teach methodology to stop lying about other people.
 * Others have made public claims of their founding membership connections - all yet to be providing evidence - there is none.
 * One of the claimants is in fact an actual Incorporated Association.
 * I attended almost every performance night from 1991 forward and ensured the operation was according to the Constitution but mostly enjoyed the development of the club to a facility for and by comedians with no funding other than ticketed patronage from the public punters..
 * I ran the club in its entirety throughout 1996 to March 1997 and negotiated the space and facility for a new home of WA Comedy ( venue owner's description ) to be at the Brass Monkey Hotel - owned by the Woolworths retail Grocery business where the club remained until it was relocated around 2012 for reasons yet to be determined. I was working in Melbourne from late 1997 to early 2005.
 * Doust very rarely attended the venue on performance nights, apart from when he booked himself to appear.
 * (His primary act was somewhat typecasting and dressing himself as a barely comprehensible drunk named George Gosh).
 * He domiciled himself well out of the central restaurant district where the club remains located, on a virtual suburban edge of the metropolitan area.
 * He often rubbished the fact of the Laugh Resort, Incorporated, with veiled comments about it being a place for lonely and sad people. Often in writing, often on national radio, where he had the freely available publicity to promote himself on publicly owned radio - Tony Delroy program.
 * I did not commence documentation and application requirement under laws for Incorporated Associations until June 1991 and finalised this in September 1991 AFTER the cessation of the comedy club then operated by Tom Proud - which I, in the later days of its 18 month existence, co-jointly operated. Everyone who attended the inaugural meeting was personally invited by me. Doust was not there, Alan Brown was not there - his brother Andy attended instead.
 * Anyone who wanted to do this could easily have done so and with a lawyer as one of Doust's associates, this was almost a no-brainer in achieving.
 * Everyone, except me, did NOTHING.
 * The original regular comedy club (Sunday Comedy Club - unincorporated) was through the Performing Arts Centre Society (pacs.org.au).
 * Doust had nothing at all to do with that organisation (pacs.org.au).
 * Doust also 'went' at the individual who had established the Sunday Comedy Club through pacs.org.au - Tom Proud.
 * Comedians who personally approached me at the venue immediately post-performance for feedback on the night,
 * include - but are not limited to -
 * Dave Hughes (also asked for and received a prescription (from me, personally and exclusively) for developing his talent to the level of best in Australia ), - no lies here,
 * Rove McManus, (he has publicly stated he got his start at Laugh Resort, Incorporated)
 * Damian Clark (now permanently based in Ireland and since 2008) is one of the most respected/revered comedians in Ireland and
 * has had his own live comedy TV series and
 * brought the laugh back to the Irish after the GFC wiped out almost everything and
 * RTE brought him and a production crew back to Australia wherein a documentary was produced of Clark's background in his home city (Perth) and
 * his continuing professional development in Melbourne including
 * meeting his wife and following her back to EIRE.
 * Others who achieved local professional recognition at Laugh Resort, Incorporated and who spent their earliest days in public stage comedy performance include
 * Tim Minchin,
 * Mel Buttle (now based in Queensland and recently completed series of comedy quiz programs with Bill Bailey, on New Zealand TV-{Patriot Brains} and regularly on show around the region),
 * Claire Hooper (now based in Melbourne and regularly appears on a variety of pre-recorded and live-to-air television programming entertainment,
 * Jim Dailakis (permanently, successfully, frequently/regularly and principally performing comedy and also in TV drama series for example, based in New York since 2000).
 * Dave Callan got his start at Laugh Resort, Incorporated, as did many others, some have moved on to religious preaching, business advisory and a lawyer or three or four and more.... one may soon even be organising your internet security ........ if not, then possibly ensuring security of the prison population?
 * I also have personal reason for doing such. I did not rush this incorporated association formation.
 * I also have personal reason for doing such. I did not rush this incorporated association formation.


 * In the day I was also fundamentally key in acquiring funding for the P.A.C.S. (pacs.org.au) a member-based organisation -
 * In 1990, I produced and directed the first play - a new, original work, locally written in-house - at W.A. Actors Centre (trading name for pacs.org.au, today trading as 'The Blue Room Theatre') in establishing the proposed ongoing rules for funding and availability of the performance space and that funding was acquired through the Western Australian Government Department for The Arts project funding grants.
 * All of the project officers in this WA Government Agency attended and were impressed with the presentation enough to determine a full 12 months grant covering operating costs and salary for a general manager.
 * Eventually, some years slater, pacs.org.au was granted permanent (triennial) recurring funding to continue and it is still operating to this day and through next year and beyond. It is one of the most successful membership based theatre companies in Australia.
 * I was also a Board Member for a short time at the SWY Theatre Company - in 1991, and was crucial to the decision in hiring a new General Manager.
 * Subsequently, the SWY Theatre was granted rights, and more than 20 years of recurring funding, to rename as the Perth Theatre Company.
 * Perth is the capital city of Western Australia.
 * I was invited to the Board of Artrage Fringe Festival in late 1992, elected by membership vote in early 1993 as ordinary Board Member. Elected by the Board to Treasurer for 1994 and resigned 1995 after returning the books to surplus after years of deficits.
 * This including identifying a 20% (of total funding) grant to the friend of the then Chief Clerk and the Chairperson of the Board.
 * This forced the Artrage Fringe Festival into a $35,000 deficit (14% of total grant-based budget) as the commencing financial position for the 1994 Artrage Festival.
 * No explanation has ever been given for this grant being "no audit and no acquittal required" despite repeated requests for the resign officers of the Board to do so.
 * At the time I was deeply concerned and expressed this to the manager of the Western Australian Government Department for The Arts Officer responsible for arts funding distribution and
 * assured I would clear the debt, imposed by the resigned Chief Clerk and resigned Chairperson, within 12 months. The clear potential was for funding to be reduced or at worst cancelled - it happened at the pacs.org.au only a few years earlier.
 * I did return the account to surplus and resigned from the Board. There were many calls for me to return as Chairperson.
 * Today the Festival is still operating as an umbrella organisation and presents many public arts events including the Perth FringeWorld Festival - the 3rd largest of the FringeWorld festivals of which there are more than 190 worldwide.
 * In Perth, The Comedy Lounge venue, the Brisbane Hotel Comedy venue and the Rosemount Big Hoo Haa venue were originated and established by
 * comedians who came through the Laugh Resort, Incorporated, and all after 1998.
 * All are still operating, some having changed hands. To.digital.mick (talk) 05:14, 25 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I can't read all this: it's too long and it's very hard to follow. But whatever gets put on Wikipedia, especially if it concerns living people, needs verification from SECONDARY sources. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:28, 2 January 2023 (UTC)