Category: 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: Hamish & Lynette Parkinson in Me ‘n’ Ma
This show was either going to be hilarious or an utter train wreck. The premise was so fucking bold. Hamish brings his mother, Lynette, on stage and then the two of them sit on a couch and talk shit and drink wine for an hour.
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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: James Acaster in Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999
When I last reviewed James Acaster in 2016, I said the next time he came to New Zealand he’d be doing a show at the Opera House or somesuch because he was that good that smaller venues couldn’t contain him.
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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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