Author: Lord Sutch
Comedy Fest review: James Acaster in Reset – world premiere
James Acaster is going to be a very expensive comic to see next time he comes back to New Zealand. I fully expect him to be at the Opera House charging like $50 to see him. And he’d be worth it. Because this was one of the best comedy festival shows I’ve had the fortune of seeing.
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Comedy Fest review: Rose Matafeo in Finally Dead
When we settle ourselves in for Rose’s show there’s an organist playing, it’s the soundtrack of just about every funeral you’ve ever been to and is a nice touch to what is an entertaining, funny, yet somewhat frustrating hour of comedy.
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Comedy fest review: Jeremy Elwood in Three night stand
Jeremy Elwood is basically Mr New Zealand comedy at this point in his career. He is so polished, so professional that investing in his show is practically a sure thing, and Three Night Stand doesn’t disappoint.
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Comedy fest review: Laura Daniel in Pressure makes diamonds
Laura Daniel is probably the most likable comic I’ve seen on stage in some time. It’s a personality characteristic that is often neglected by comics, but for Laura I’m pretty sure it’s natural and just down to a charismatic, charming and funny persona.
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Comedy fest review: Neel Kolhatkar in Neel before me
“Don’t let his internet celebrity deceive” says part of Neel’s promo material, and I have to confess I didn’t actually know who Neel was before I went and saw his show.
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Why Donald Trump is good for democracy
Hello friends, I’m not going to be writing a whole lot of these pieces but I thought I’d dip my toe back into the punditry land, if only for a brief swim.
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Comedy fest review: Lords of Strut in Chaos
I cannot emphasise enough how the marketing for Lords of Strut does not capture what you will see.
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Comedy fest review: Beth Vyse in Funny as Cancer
Write what you know. That’s what they tell you when you start doing comedy. Beth Vyse got breast cancer, so she’s written about that. And it’s funny as hell.
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Comedy fest review: Marcel Lucont’s Whine List
Marcel Lucont’s was one of the shows I was most looking forward to this festival. He’s won a tonne of awards recently and everyone raved about him at his most recent trip here a couple of years ago.
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Comedy Fest Review: Arj Barker in Get in my head
I saw Arj Barker for the one and only time in a gala show a few years ago. I wasn’t that impressed with his ‘surf rock’ comedy then, but the thing with gala shows is that you get a 5 minute slice of a comedian’s repetoire.
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Comedy Fest Review: Eamonn Marra and Jonny Potts in All Day Breakfast
Line-up shows are funny things, I mean obviously comedy shows are largely all funny, but line-up shows are a different kind of funny.
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I did it my way (but no longer will)
And now the end is near. And so I face the final curtain.
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Cosentino: Twisted reality in a real way
Cosentino is an Australian illusionist and escapologist. He’s a multi-talented guy. One of those people that you suspect might be better than you at everything.
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Review: Jonny Potts in Loose
Last year I reviewed Jonny Potts’ NZ Comedy Fest show: The Delusionaries.
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Be Like Mike
In continuing my trend of writing about things days after everyone else has pretty much covered it, I’d like to wade in on the Mike Hosking thing.
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I hope the Young Nats paid for their license
So the John Key + All Blacks love affair has been going on a while. This isn’t news.
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This is Raro: and how I learnt to not be an imperialist
Last week I spent five nights in Rarotonga. It was my first time having an “island” holiday. The closest I’d come was a week in Phuket. It was not what I expected.
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