Review – Andy Matthews: String Theory
Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint what makes a comedy show work. Sure, Andy Matthews’ latest effort is low-fi, set in a small room on a small budget, but boy does it have some big...
Category: Comedy
Review – The Best of British
The website boasts that Best of British sold out 2007-2013, but tonight the upstairs bar is half full. To be fair, it’s a Thursday night and the comedians are competing with the football, something...
Review – The Tim Vine Chat Show
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Classic comedy. Classic comedy who? Tim Vine. While this joke is not inherently funny, it’s unconventional simplicity is a taste of what you will experience in the Tim Vine Chat Show....
Review – Wolf Creek the Musical
Murder, music, a man in a dress, and clams. ‘Wolf Creek the Musical’ is, rather unsurprisingly, a low-budget musical rendition of 2005’s Australian horror film ‘Wolf Creek’. Making the most...
Review – 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation
Tim Motley is spellbindingly funny and a compellingly excellent storyteller.
Review – An American’s Guide to Being Like Totally British
It’s all delivered in the high-brow manner that such auspicious subjects demand – that is to say, dick jokes pervade throughout – and Wieroniey has the guts of a true comedian, even when the laughs are sparse.
Review – Comic Strip
Open your tattered, dog-eared Fringe guide and you’ll see there is far more comedy in the Festival than anything else… But we must all remember that we can have a bit of slap with our tickle, and tickling our funny bone is as good a reason as any to also catch some high quality burlesque.
Review – Greg Fleet: The Games Master
There is a reason Fleet is an icon of comedy in Australia. He’s simply very funny and, perhaps more to the point, a good entertainer, ironically using his own negativity to create an upwards vibe. If you want to see a show that’s “like Hamlet, but different” (his own words) then Greg Fleet is the comic for you.
Review – When We Were Idiots
Xavier Toby is a comedian who knows a few things or two about Adelaide that may surprise you, even if you’ve lived here for a while. So put on your safety vests (provided) and join this walking tour.
Review – A Viking Tale
[Jenny Wynter] portrays most of the other characters in the performance, including a passive-aggressive neighbour who is at pains to point out that her Viking birthday cakes for her Viking son are always hand-made and orgaaanic.
Review – Ivan Aristeguieta: Lost in Pronunciation
Reaching our sea-girt shores only two years ago, if Ivan Aristeguieta at first put himself forward as an ‘outsider looking in’ comedic observer, he transcends that schtick here.
Review – EDGE!
Isabel commits to her role with such vigour that you believe her as a child star, even though she’s clearly at least a foot too tall. And that’s what makes this satire work so ridiculously well.
Review – Katerina Vrana: Feta with the Queen
Katerina Vrana is a Greek comedian and actor who lives in the UK, and this is where she derives most of her observational humour. Her show is a delightful mix of Greek and British humour, which provides a weird but hilarious combination through which Katerina expresses her subtle but deep-seated desire to place herself on the British throne.
Review – Come Heckle Christ
Jesus, why do the people with the fish stickers on their cars drive so slowly?
Review – Wil Anderson: Wiluminati
On the whole his material tended toward the refreshingly intimate, but these bits about illness abutted somewhat awkwardly with the occasional political outburst more in line with his public or television persona.
