Tag: Stand up comedy
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: 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: 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: Des Bishop in Made in China
I’ll copy/paste the blurb for Des’ show to set some context: In February 2013, Des moved to China for a year so he could learn enough Mandarin to perform stand-up to a Chinese audience. He even starred on China’s biggest dating show. Now he’s here to share these hilarious and unique experiences with you.
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Comedy fest review: Sanjay Parbhu in Because I said I would
Sanjay Parbhu has been performing as a comedian for around 7 years, since graduating from the NZ comedy fest initiative “Class Comedians” while still in high school. This is his debut solo show.
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Comedy Fest review: Tom Wrigglesworth in Utterly At Odds With The Universe
So Tom Wrigglesworth was here a few years ago (2010 in fact, damn time marches on) and he constructed an entire one hour show based on a short story of a thing that happened to him on a train.
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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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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.
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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