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August 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Lenny Bruce: Fat Boy – The Genius of Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce Fat Boy: The Genius of Lenny Bruce Big Buzz Productions / Format Music Lenny Bruce. One of the names you can’t escape in a discussion of American comedy. One of the guys. Richard Pryor and George Carlin. Woody Allen. These are the sorts of names that come up when discussing the development of […]Archive
June 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 259 – James Acaster, Wellington, 2019
It really became impossible for me to review comedy – the Comedy Festival turned very sour, or the acts involved in it did – or both. And then the newspaper wouldn’t send me along because I was too hard to get in the door (not due to my size, btw). And it has become harder […]Archive
April 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Louis CK: Sincerely Louis CK
Louis CK: Sincerely Louis CK Director: Louis CK louisck.com The latest Louis CK comedy special is available via his website. He’s done this before – but this is his first special, and his first return to the self-distribution model since the scandal that threatened to tank his career – but it seems he’s going to […]Archive
March 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Maria Bamford: Weakness Is The Brand
Maria Bamford Weakness Is The Brand Comedy Dynamics, A Nacelle Company The latest Maria Bamford comedy special is available on VOD services as well as an audiobook file or a CD/Mp3 – she was canned from Netflix after her last special and the two seasons of Lady Dynamite didn’t quite do the numbers – but […]Archive
November 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 215
Shelley Berman, A Personal Appearance (1962) I love listening to old stand-up comedy records – so out of date in so many ways, but find a good one and you can revel in the storytelling, the timing, the performance (even if the material doesn’t stand up). If the material isn’t overtly sexual or political then […]Archive
June 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
David Cross: Oh, Come On
David Cross Oh, Come On Comedy Dynamics, A Nacelle Company I’ve been listening to David Cross stand-up CDs since I was first sent a review-sample back in the early 00s. That was on Sub Pop and was fascinating to me for some reason – also I recognised Cross’ face and voice from his various cameos at that point and what […]Archive
May 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Comedy Festival: James Acaster (Te Auaha, Wgtn)
James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 Te Auaha Tuesday May 15 – Saturday May 19 (7.00pm) It’s getting harder to review comedy – and I don’t just mean for me, since I don’t go out to it as often as I once did. I’m not bemoaning a lack of match fitness. The rules have […]Archive
October 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 209 – James Acaster, Wellington, 2016
And if there’s a better act at this year’s Comedy Festival I haven’t seen it. * *Disclaimer: I hate the Comedy Festival and this is the only show I’m attending – that said it was fucking tremendous. That’s how I closed my review of James Acaster last year. No disrespect to him – only disrespect for the […]Archive
July 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #116 – Tommy Tiernan, Wellington, 2011
So often I’m disappointed by stand-up comedy – I’ve watched and listened to so much. I spent my teenage years going over and over anything and everything by Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin and Robin Willliams (and Bill Cosby) and all of that only sent me off in other directions to find […]Archive
July 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Beth Stelling (July 2, Wgtn)
Beth Stelling Fringe Bar Thursday, July 2 Beth Stelling has a lot of hype right now – Top 50 comics of 2015, rising star, that sort of thing…and this was her first time in New Zealand, her first full international tour. The American comic has an album already, and has been on all the late-night […]Archive
May 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman