Tag: Comedy Festival
Comedy fest review: Ben Target in Discover Ben Target
24 hours. That’s how long the record stood for hardest review I’d had to write for a Comedy Festival show.
Read MoreComedy Fest Review: Adrienne Truscott in Adrienne Truscott’s Asking for It (trigger warnings)
Last year I saw Reginald D. Hunter as part of the Comedy Festival. His show hinged upon one big giant rape joke he did smack in the middle of his set.
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Comedy Fest Review: Eastend Cabaret in Perverts
Eastend Cabaret is the type of show that isn’t for everyone. It’s for most people. But not for everyone.
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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: Alice Brine & Daniel John Smith in How to Fold a Fitted Sheet
This show boasts two of the best up and comers on the Wellington comedy circuit.
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Comedy fest review: Eli Matthewson in Faith
I don’t laugh at stand-up comedy a whole lot any more. I have performed it a bit. I’ve seen it an awful lot more. I’ve watched it on TV. I’ve reviewed it.
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Funny Birds 2: The Funniering
By Jennifer O’Sullivan Merry Christmas – it’s Comedy Festival time!
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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: Hairy Soul Man
Kai Smythe, a Melbourne-based musician, comedian and performer is Hairy Soul Man, a peacock of a performer full of swagger and confidence.
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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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How not to write a comedy show
Every year it’s the same thing, more or less. We reach the end of May; the comedy festival is done and dusted. Exhausted, I swear I’ll never go through THAT again
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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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