Tag: Comedy Festival
Comedy fest review: Dusty Rich and the Voices
I had a wee bit of trepidation about seeing Dusty Rich. A friend of mine had seen him in First Laughs and thought that he hadn’t been great, and there’d been an undercurrent of homophobia which is not something I’m that keen on seeing in a show. Unless the punchline is the homophobic. However everything turned out great in the end.
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Comedy Fest review: Savanna Calton & Sera Devcich in Unstoppable
Savanna Calton and Sera Devcich are two up and comers in the NZ Comedy scene and they both have a very bright future ahead of them if Unstoppable is anything to go by.
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Comedy fest review: Laser Kiwi
Laser Kiwi is a show put on by Imogen Stone, and the Jarvie brothers – Degge and Zane. The trio take the approach of flinging out as many ideas as possible and seeing what hits. If you’ve ever played Smooth Moves on the Nintendo Wii, then it’s sort of like that. Only funnier.
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Comedy fest review: Guy Montgomery in Let’s all get in a room together
Guy Montgomery is one of those comics that if you tried to regale your colleagues with his best bits after seeing him, it wouldn’t work.
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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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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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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: 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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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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Funny Birds 3: Some Reckonings
Oh hi! It’s me, constant improvisor and international feminist killjoy Jennifer O’Sullivan, here to guide you in your navigation of the always-dude-heavy comedy festival programme and to remind you that yes, women are diligently doing their thing and carving out their place in the comedy world.*
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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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