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May 25, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Ricky Gervais: SuperNature

Ricky Gervais: SuperNature Director: Ricky Gervais Netflix I haven’t found Ricky Gervais funny for a lot longer than I ever found him funny, something I explored when I made the wrong move of watching season three of After Life (I had mostly enjoyed the first two seasons, the first especially).
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Comedy, Comedy Special, Comedy Special Review, Live, Netflix, Netflix Comedy, Review, Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais: SuperNature, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, SuperNature, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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January 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Comedy Presents – Friday Laughs at The Cavern Club (Friday, January 21, 2022)

Wellington Comedy: Friday Laughs Cavern Club Friday, January 21 Last year I wrote about attending Raw Meat Monday which felt like a way back in to a comedy scene I had never really experienced. My deal with reviewing comedy was mostly internationals, and some Comedy Festival or Fringe shows. Single acts. Usually big names. The […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2022, Cavern Club, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Night, Comedy Review, Friday, Friday Laughs at The Cavern Club, Gig, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Humourous Arts Trust, January 21, Lesa Macleod-Whiting, Live Comedy, Live Review, Ray O'Leary, Review, Rose Northey, Sameena Zehra, Sarah Courtney, Show, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Wellington, Wellington Comedy, Wellington Comedy Presents, Wellington Comedy Presents – Friday Laughs at The Cavern Club, Zach Mandeville ·

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July 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 265: Ben Elton

Hi and welcome to episode 265 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys  and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged 2021, Acast, Apple, Author, Ben Elton, Blackadder, Books, Chat, Comedian, Comedy, Conversation, ep.265, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Interview, Off The Tracks, Phone Interview, Phoner, Podcast, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Sounds Good, Spotify, Stand Up, Substack, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 265, Sweetman Podcast # 265: Ben Elton, Sweetman Podcast: Ben Elton, T Leaf T, The Young Ones, Tour, TV, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Writer, Yeastie Boys ·

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July 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Meet Raw Meat Monday

Way back, when there were still newspapers, I did a lot of arts-reviewing. What better way, I figured, to make friends, right? You go to shows, say they’re absolutely shit and that the people that just died on stage needn’t bother ever getting up again and you’re paid an enormous amount of money and everyone […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Beginner, Blog, Comedian, Comedy, Fresh, Fringe, Fringe Bar, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Learner, MC, Meet Raw Meat Monday, Monday, RAW, Raw Meat, Raw Meat Monday, Stand Up, Stand-Up Comedian, Stand-up Comedy, The Fringe, The Fringe Bar, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Richard Pryor: ‘Craps’ (After Hours) – 50th Anniversary

Richard Pryor Craps (After Hours) Omnivore Recordings In the Richard Pryor story it’s often mentioned that as he was climbing the mountain of stand-up he had to shed the clothes of Bill Cosby Clone. Mentioning Cosby might be triggering enough these days but there’s no denying that in the 1960s Cosby was one of comedy’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 50th Anniversary, Album Review, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Record, Craps, Craps (After Hours), Omnivore Recordings, Pryor, Reissue, Richard Pryor, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Bill Bailey – En Route To Normal (March 14, Wellington)

Bill Bailey: En Route To Normal MFC, Wellington Sunday, March 14 Bill Bailey is one of the first big-name international comedians to perform in New Zealand since our lockdown; certainly he’s the one undertaking the biggest tour. “Just me and the Wiggles”, he jokes. All entertainment bases covered. Bailey is a much loved and respected […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bill Bailey, Bill Bailey: En Route To Normal, Brexit, Brit, Comedian, Comedy, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Gig, Gig Review, Gig Review: Bill Bailey – En Route To Normal (March 14, Instruments, Live, Live Gig, March 14, MFC, Music, NZ Tour, Stand Up, Sunday, UK, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Richard Pryor Addresses A Fucked Up Nation

Richard Pryor told America about racism but America just wanted to laugh. Richard Pryor told America about homophobia too but the laughs just kept on coming Prior to Richard there were safe comics, doing bits not taken from their own lives but when Richard Pryor decided to out his inner demons on American stages they […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Comedian, Comedy, Poem, Poem: Richard Pryor Addresses A Fucked Up Nation, Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor Addresses A Fucked Up Nation, Stand Up ·

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March 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 249: Gavin Hewitson (Gavin Learns)

Welcome to Sweetman Podcast. It’s 2021. But I started this year with conversations recorded at the very end of 2020. Now we’re into fresh conversations recorded in 2021. And this is episode 249 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as […]
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February 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Comedy VS Poetry FACE/OFF: NZ FRINGE

I’m in a Fringe Festival show this year. I’m one of the performers in this amazing concept  Poetry vs Stand-Up Comedy. I put the word poetry first because I’ll be one of the poets. Producers Dave Adams and Creatif Kate (aka Kate Spencer) will be MCing a set of shows across March 3-9 where three poets […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Advait Kirtikar, Alayne Dick, Amy Grace Laura, Carrie Buckmaster, Comedians, Comedy, Comedy VS Poetry, Comedy VS Poetry FACE/OFF, Comedy VS Poetry FACE/OFF: NZ FRINGE, Comics, Dani Yourukova, Emilie Hope, Emma Sidnam, FACE/OFF, Fringe Bar, Fringe Festival, Gavin Hews, Jordan Hamel, Kate Spencer, Li’i Alaimoana, March, Miranda Clement, Nathan Bond, Neil Thornton, NZ Fringe, Poems, Poetry, Poets, PR, Promo, Richard Lemmens, Rose Northey, Sameena Zehra, Sannon Basso Gaule, Sarah Rose Courtenay, Severin Gourley, Simon Sweetman, Sowmya Hiremath, Stand Up, Susan Williams, Tarns Hood, Wellington, Writing ·

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January 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Lewis Black: Thanks For Risking Your Life

Lewis Black Thanks For Risking Your Life TLB Records Available as a video (streaming) or old-fashioned CD/comedy album, Lewis Black must have just snuck in with one of the last ‘proper’ comedy specials ahead of the pandemic. As you see from the cover he was masked up – and his audience was socially distanced, he […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Album Review, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Album, Comedy Special, Commentary, Coronavirus, Covd-19, Covid, Donald Trump, Lewis Black, Lewis Black: Thanks For Risking Your Life, Orange, Pandemic, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Thanks For Risking Your Life, TLB Records, Trump, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 240: Lucy Roche

Welcome to episode 240 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Anchorfm, Apple, Chat, Class Comics, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Club, Comedy Quest, Comic, Conversation, Covid-19, Fringe Bar, Interview, Lockdown, Lucy Roche, Open Mic, Podcast, RAW, School, Sex Worker, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Stand-Up Comic, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 240, Sweetman Podcast # 240: Lucy Roche, T Leaf T, The Fringe, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Melinda Hill: Inappropriate

Melinda Hill Inappropriate Comedy Dynamics, A Nacelle Company Melinda Hill’s latest comedy album (and it’s available to watch on Apple TV) is bold and funny and deep – and speaks to her development as a joke-writer and deliverer, but also arrives at exactly the right time.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged #MeTooSoon, A Nacelle Company, Apple TV, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Album, Comedy Dynamics, Comedy Set, Comedy Special, Inappropriate, Live, Live Set, Live Stand-Up, Melinda Hill, Melinda Hill: Inappropriate, Stand Up, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·
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