By XAVIER SMERDON
A WYNDHAM Vale comedian is getting ready to conquer the world after being one of only three Australian acts invited to perform at an iconic festival in San Francisco.
Mark Samual Bonanno is one part of the four man comedy troupe, Aunty Donna, who next month will be flying to America to perform at the SF Sketchfest.
Along with Tommy Dassalo and Wil Anderson, they are the only Australian comedy acts performing at the festival.
Not long after they will be heading off to Scotland to perform at the world’s largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
To help them pay their way to both comedy events and possibly kickstart an international career, they are selling limited edition tea towels with their pictures on them.
Mr Bonanno told Star that his dream was to be able to take Aunty Donna around the world.
“I was doing an acting course in Ballarat and even then I didn’t think I wanted to be a performer, it was just something that happened,” Mr Bonanno said.
“The plan at the time was to get through the course and then just become a writer but about three weeks into it something just clicked and now this is what I want to do.”
Aunty Donna started gaining international fans after posting their comedy routines on YouTube, where they have since received over 300,000 views.
After one of their skits was shared by a fan on reddit.com, an American website, they received 160,000 hits overnight.
For more information on their shows and how to buy one of their fundraising tea towels visit www.auntydonna.com
