Comedy Showroom: The Future is Expensive

The fourth project in ABC’s Comedy Showroom is Eddie Perfect’s The Future is Expensive.

Perfect plays a hapless young father struggling with modern life.

Directed by Matt Saville, it also features Leeanna Walsman as his wife.

The Future is Expensive is a half-hour comedy pilot created and written by Eddie Perfect, who also stars. The pilot puts everyday life under the comedic knife with a 2016 edge and a unique voice.

While watching his daughter, Matilda, playing at the park, Eddie is confronted by a Mummy-Nazi who insists that Matilda has pooed in the middle of the jungle gym. In response to the Mummy’s continued harassment, Eddie throws the offending poo at her face and makes a run for it. Parents and kids give chase on purpose-built, kid-friendly safety bicycles.

Thankfully Eddie and Matilda make it home in one piece. On her way out to work Sarah (Leeanna Walsman), Eddie’s wife, reminds him that he’s promised to build a deck. Grace and Elliot – friends who Eddie can’t place for the life of him – are coming over tonight and she’s anxious to make a good impression. Eddie also has to take his daughters to their classmate’s party and buy a present en route. Eddie is more concerned with finding the remote control, but reluctantly agrees.

Production Credits: A Goalpost Pictures Production. Directed by Matt Saville and Produced by Rosemary Blight, Lauren Edwards and Eddie Perfect. ABC Executive Producers Andrew Gregory and ABC Head of Comedy Rick Kalowski.

9pm Wednesday on ABC.