Category: Reviews
Comedy Fest review: Jamie Bowen in Heart goes Boom
First off, this picture does not do Jamie’s beard justice. That is one hell of a beard.
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Comedy fest review: Jeremy Elwood in Jeremy Elwood LIVE
Well of course he’s live. If he wasn’t live. He’d be dead.
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Comedy Fest review: Ben Crellin in …err…Benjamin Crellin
Ben Crellin is a confrontational comic. He’s possibly not the sort of comedian you’d bring your grandparents to.
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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: Brendon Green in Some More Mr Nice Guy
I’m noticing a trend in festival shows this year. We’re not getting the big introductions where we’re asked to go “crazy and wild” for the comic. Instead the comedian is just sort of there.
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Comedy fest review: Jonny Potts in the Delusionaries
Jonny is a guy with a bit of a cult following around Wellington. He looks like a throwback to the 1990s with his semi-grungy motif but he’s a funny fucker.
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Comedy fest review: Jamaine Ross in Jamaine Says Funny Things
I walk down the stairs into the Cavern Club to see Jamaine Ross’s show and he immediately greets me with a friendly handshake, a warm smile and a jovial ‘hello’.
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Comedy fest review: Urzila Carlson in Poise Control
I turn up to San Fran to see Urzila Carlson about two minutes before the show starts, and the venue is packed.
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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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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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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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Quick Calamari with Garlic Mayonnaise
Down and out on Squid row having a Kraken good time.
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Review: They Saw a Thylacine
They Saw a Thylacine was awarded the Tiki Tour Ready Award at the 2013 Melbourne Fringe. Last year this award brought us Emily Taylor’s Cannonball, which, having been nominated for Stand Out Performer NZ Fringe 2013 and winner of Best Solo Show NZ Fringe 2013, meant I had high expectations for this two-hander from Melbourne performers Sarah Hamilton and Justine Campbell.
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Lost in the Fun House
By Jonny Potts If you do anything ‘creative’, you always have these ghosts around, trying to keep you in check. You invite them into your life, trying to incorporate and escape their influence.
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