Comedy fest review: Markus Birdman in Happily Ever After
First off, Markus came out to Tender by Blur. Which is one of my favourite songs of all time. So he started off very well.
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Comedy fest review: Reginald D. Hunter (trigger warnings)
So. Rape huh? That’s a bold opening to make isn’t it? Especially because I’m a male. So really I’m the worst person to be making those statements.
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Comedy fest review: Brendhan Lovegrove 20 Years
In 2006, I was nominated as New Zealand’s most offensive comedian. At the time I wore it as a badge of honour. I realise now that what I thought was “edgy” and “funny” was actually just “offensive”.
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Comedy fest review: Guy Montgomery in a Succinct and Concise Summary of How He Feels About Certain Things
So I’d never heard of Guy Montgomery. Apparently he was a host on U-late. I don’t even know what U-late is. He’s also on Cadbury Dream Factory. Again that’s not something I’m familiar with.
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Bring it Back: Finger Pointing
My momma always told me it was rude to point my finger, so in a very rare moment of obedience, I obliged. It wasn’t always easy not pointing at things.
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Comedy fest review: Tim Batt in Tim Batt saves Planet Earth
I have always had a soft spot for Tim Batt’s comedy. Early on in his career he was compared to me and this made him really upset so he quit comedy for a while.
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This post will not restore your faith in humanity: Redux
Right back at the beginning of 2014 I wrote an angry post on how Buzzfeed, Cracked and Upworthy were destroying us with ridiculous headlines.
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National’s latest campaign ad
With the announcement of not one, but TWO former tobacco lobbyists as National’s electorate candidates, National has updated its advertising to reflect its priorities.
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Wellington Raw Comedy Quest Final: the review
San Fran is packed and there’s a great buzz in the air – the Raw Comedy Quest final is here and almost everyone’s come to support or compete, making for a very friendly crowd.
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Why we should remember them
It was freezing. It wasn’t one of those nice chilly I-just-went-to-the-snow-and-had-a-bundle-of-laughs-wearing-pompom-hats kind of freezings either; more like the kind of deathly freezing that burrows itself deep deep down into your soul and numbs you from the inside out
Read MoreWellington Raw Comedy Quest final: tonight
Tonight at the San Francisco Bath House in Wellington it’s the final of the Wellington Raw Comedy Quest.
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Toyworld’s telling girls what to play with again: update it was all a mistake
Last year something very cool happened, at least partly inspired by a Ruminator post. But this year, it appears to have… unhappened. I’m not impressed.
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Honey, You Can’t Seriously Have Five Children
When the lady at the Post Office looked at me a bit funny, it was probably fair enough. I’d just told her I was sending Christmas presents to my five children.
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Mental health in academia: overworked and stressed
I first knew that something was wrong when I went from joking with friends that I would rather jump in front of a truck than work on my thesis to genuinely thinking “is that an option here?”
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Everyone loves a Royal Tour (even if they don’t much like Royalty).
This Royal tour is a funny thing. Latest polling seems to suggest that as a country, we want to move on from the Monarchy. Republic NZ’s polling shows that only 46% of those polled wanted the Next British monarch to become King of New Zealand.
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Georgeous baby your highness
We are in the midst of a highly publicised visit from the Duke, Duchess and George of Cambridge, and despite the growing number of people joining the camp of “who-gives-a-royal-fuck”, the handsome duke and his gorgeous family are leaving in their wake a herd of screaming fans trying to catch a glimpse of them.
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We talked about Kevin
It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was blowing, rain was pouring and I was going to see Kevin Hague.
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