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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Best Of, Comedian, Comedy, Compilation, Fat Boy, Fat Boy: The Genius of Lenny Bruce, Lenny Bruce, Lenny Bruce: Fat Boy - The Genius of Lenny Bruce, Live Comedy, Stand Up, Thank You Masked Man, The Genius of Lenny Bruce, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, British, Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Festival, Comedy Review, Gig Review, James Acaster, Live Comedy, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 259, Stubs: # 259 – James Acaster, Te Auaha, UK, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged #MeToo, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Special, Comic, Live, Live Comedy, Louis CK, Louis CK: Sincerely Louis CK, louisck.com, Scandal, Sexual Assault, Sincerely, Sincerely Louis CK, Special, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Nacelle Company, Album Review, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Album, Comedy Dynamics, Comedy Special, Lady Dynamite, Live Comedy, Maria Bamford, Mental Illness, Netflix, Stand Up, Weakness Is The Brand, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1962, A Personal Appearance, Bob Newhart, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Record, Comic, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Live, Live Comedy, LP, Record, Shelley Berman, Stand Up, Stand-Up Comedian, Stand-up Comedy, Television Advertising (It Shows It To You), The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 215, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Come On, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Album, Comedy Dynamics, Comedy Record, Comedy Special, David Cross, David Cross: Oh Come On, Fatherhood, Live, Live Comedy, Oh, Oh Come On, Politics, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2019, Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, Comedy Festival: James Acaster (Te Auaha, Gig Review, James Acaster, James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, Live Comedy, Live Gig, May, Stand-up Comedy, Te Auaha, Tuesday May 15 – Saturday May 19, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), British, Comedian, Comedy Festival, Gig, Gig Review, James Acaster, Live Comedy, Live Gig, Live Review, Review, San Fran, Stand Up, Stand-Up Comedian, Stand-up Comedy, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 209, Stubs: # 209 – James Acaster, UK, Wellington ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Comedian, Comedy, Dominion Post, Gig Review, Ireland, Irish, Live, Live Comedy, Opera House, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #116 – Tommy Tiernan, Tommy Tiernan, Wellington 2011 ·

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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 […]
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May 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Noel Fielding (May 11, Wgtn)

Noel Fielding: An Evening With Noel Fielding Opera House Monday, May 11/Tuesday, May 12 Noel Fielding found fame with The Mighty Boosh, also Never Mind The Buzzcocks. He’s a cult hero, on panel shows and occasionally doing stand-up, he’s got a rock-star demeanour (minus the attitude). He’s somehow genuinely endearing and with this surrealist thread […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged An Evening With Noel Fielding, Comedy, Comedy Festival, Gig Review, Gig Review: Noel Fielding (May 11, Live, Live Comedy, Monday May 11, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Noel Fielding, Opera House, Sketches, Skits, Stand Up, Star, Surrealist, The Mighty Boosh, TV, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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March 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Louis CK: Live At The Comedy Store

Louis CK: Live At The Comedy Store Director: Louis CK louisck.net Louis CK returns with his latest comedy special, an hour of new material – by now among the many things he’s known and revered for is the fact that he turns around new material year in, year out. He won’t go on the road […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Comedian, Comedy Album, Comedy Special, Film Review, HBO, Jay London, Live, Live At The Comedy Store, Live Comedy, Louis CK, Louisck.net, Special, Stand-up Comedy, Standup ·
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