Tag: Comedy Festival
Comedy Festival: Tim Batt & Disasteradio in Space Couch: A Live Comedy Chat Show
Tim Batt has been around the New Zealand stand-up comedy scene for well over a decade now. In that time he has perhaps never quite reached the potential that is quite clearly there. Space Couch is perhaps the best format for Tim’s brand of comedy and is a really really good show.
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Comedy Festival: Eli Matthewson in Myth and Legend
In 2015 I got an email from Eli Matthewson asking if I’d like to come and review his show “Faith”. I get a lot of these requests and I don’t go to every single show, but I try to get to those who pro-actively ask.
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Comedy Festival: David Correos in Better than I was last time
David Correos is not going to be for everyone. You should know that about his comedy. He is 100% for me, but I love the insanity.
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Comedy Festival: Ivan Aristeguieta in The Fourth Floor
Ivan Aristeguieta is a Venezuelan currently living in Australia. It’s his first time in Wellington he tells us, but he’s got a strong supporter base of Wellington’s Venezuelan’s community to cheer loudly and laugh along at the bits of the show which don’t quite land – which fortunately are not many at all.
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Comedy fest review: White Man Behind a Desk in WMBADx: Idea worth spreading
White Man Behind a Desk has scaled heights faster than most comedians get to. For the last wee while he’s been honing his Colbert/Stewart pastiche and delivering lefty sermons with humour from behind his desk and building quite the following.
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Comedy fest review: Eli Matthewson in An Inconvenient Poof
I feel almost a paternal instinct towards Eli’s comedy. I saw him in his Billy T nominated show ‘Faith’ in 2015, then again last year in ‘The Year of Magical Fucking’ and I usually will leave it at a couple of shows to review a comic before I move on to someone else.
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Comedy fest review: Wilson Dixon in What a Country!
I have been hanging out to see Wilson Dixson for years. There’s something super alluring about what he does. The cowboy shtick that he has down to a fine art, that soft picking at the guitar as he gently woos you with his drawl and his songs. This year was my first time seeing a full Wilson Dixon hour and I wasn’t disappointed.
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Comedy Fest Review: Marcel Lucont in Etc. A Chat Show
I knew it. I knew Marcel Lucont would be a phenomenal show. I saw his show a couple of years ago when he was last in New Zealand and it was one of the shows I was most looking forward to
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Comedy Fest Review: Donna Brookbanks in You do you babes
What a joyous eruption of chaos, energy and laughter. Donna’s show You do you babes is crammed full with so much energy, so much material that it’s almost exhausting.
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Comedy fest review: Alice Snedden in Self-titled: Volume II
Alice Snedden is a fucking good comedian. I try to get along to as many Billy T Nominee shows in Wellington as possible because I often don’t know much about the comics and so frequently unearth some gold, like Guy Montgomery from a few years back. Alice is like Guy in that I went in knowing little and left being super impressed.
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Comedy fest review: Lucy Roche & Ray O’Leary in Young, dumb and full of comedy
Lucy Roche and Ray O’Leary are a couple of NZ comics on the up and up. Lucy won the National Raw Comedy Quest in 2016 and Ray was a Billy T Award nominee last year. They both have a solid resume of shows and experience but there’s still a bit of work to be done.
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Comedy fest review: James Veitch in Dot Con
James Veitch is known for his hilarious emails, no not the guy who tried to pay his power bills with a spider-drawing, but for being the guy who emails back scammers. The Nigerian Prince types.
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Comedy fest review: Seven Deadly Stunts
Ah comedy fest. This year it’s started earlier than normal. In fact my first show was before the Comedy Fest has even started at all. I saw Seven Deadly Stunts last night at Circa 2 and had a ball.
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Comedy fest review: Rose Matafeo in Sassy Best Friend
I said it in the tweet immediately following the show, and I’ll say it again, Rose Matafeo is a national treasure.
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Comedy fest review: Tessa Waters in Over Promises
What an utter fucking delight. Such a joyous wonderful, feel-good, bizarre funny show. This is a show I’ve been struggling to think of how to review. Because to reveal too much would be to spoil it.
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Comedy fest review: Tony Woods
I was nervous about this show. I’d heard that Tony’s performance in the gala had gone to places that I’d probably not be a fan of and so I approached it with some trepidation. I left with a feeling of delight and joy.
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Comedy fest review: Gordon Southern in Long Story Short
Gordon Southern is a polished, slick comic. His show, Long Story Short, is a rollicking hour of puns, raps, gags, stories, frenetic energy, sound and light and one of the most delightfully likeable comics I’ve seen.
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Comedy fest review: Joel Hansby & Josh Davies in Dorkward
There’s awkward comedy where we cringe because of the awfulness. Think Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm or Ricky Gervais in his entire life
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