Author: Lord Sutch
Comedy fest review: Paco Erhard in 5 Step Guide to being German
Some friends and I were discussing what we would expect to see from Paco Erhard’s show “5 Step Guide to being German”.
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Comedy fest review: Brendon Green in Best Friends
I saw Brendon Green in the 2014 Comedy Festival in Some More Mr Nice Guy, and it was one of the most well written shows I had ever seen. Brendon danced us backwards and forwards, weaving call-backs and flash-forwards with a deftness far exceeding his age as a comic.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting III: Not great news
So you might have read my piece, and/or Kim’s piece about our adventures through infertility. It’s been a hard road. And we had just started the next chapter which was a cycle of IVF.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting
I’m not a huge fan of revealing too much personal information on a blog that is read by 10s of people but here we go, this is as personal as it gets. Also, this post may get super long. Sorry.
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The case for Democrats to be obstructionist
Over in the dumpster fire that is the United States Government, Trump has announced his Supreme Court nominee, one Justice Gorsuch. A known Christian conservative. This appointment is to replace the late Justice Scalia who died in February last year.
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Between a Trump and a Russian place
I saw an article yesterday that came from early December about the current intelligence community and its panic over Donald Trump. The article, from Reuters, says that Canada is concerned about Trump’s comments around using torture and other ethical atrocities as well as his ties to Russia
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
So who saw that one coming? No-one. Big news.
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When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.
Since *that* election I have read myriad reasons why it played out the way it did
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Reverend Horton Heat: Effortless brilliance
The Rev is a band I have wanted to see for, I dunno, 10 years now?
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Pro comedy in Wellington!
Outside of the Comedy Festival there is a tonne of comedy shows around Wellington city that you should check out. But it’s rare that we get a show of this calibre coming to town.
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Erewhon: Where everyone is lazy and does drugs
RadioNZ (sorry RNZ) has a remarkable story up about New Zealand’s high level of immigration, and how this high level of immigration is actually bringing in a lot of low-skilled workers
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Some great things about 2016
So 2016 hasn’t been great huh? That’s the meme. That it’s been a shit year. Smacking us all right in the gooch. Terrorism, celebrity deaths, poverty, Trump, we’ve had a lot. So I thought in honour of it being such a shitter let’s take a look at some good things.
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The annual subscription fee has come up again and as I (Dave) have started my own business, money is a bit tight, so if you want to donate to help keep the site live then awesome!
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Raybon and Tim and Cohen oh my!
We love comedy at the Ruminator. We review the shit out of it every festival and we’re a big supporter of local comedy which we think is going from strength to strength.
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Eats gravel, shits highways
Over the weekend, on TV3’s ‘The Nation‘, the Wellington Mayoral candidates got together and had a shitfest.
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A complete abdication of responsibility
It was a fascinating day yesterday, watching the Brexit results come in and seeing how divided United Kingdom had become.
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Comedy Festival Review: Red Bastard
Whew. This is going to be tricky. And possibly a bit of a wanky review. So for that I apologise.
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Comedy fest review: Angela Barnes in Come As You Are
Angela Barnes has, in her promo material, the sentence “The best mainstream female comedian I’ve seen since Sarah Millican” and the word mainstream makes me pause.
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