Danny McGinlay: Coming Soon
01/04/2008 … In the portentous style of movie voiceovers: In a world overrun by comedy shows, only one man dare stand up to take on the mighty challenge of the film trailer.
2008 Archives
Tue 01 April 2008
Daniel Moore: Wistful Thinking
01/04/2008 … Yes, wistful just about covers it.
Lin Dong Fu: Chinese True Confucians
01/04/2008 … Lin Dung Fo is the first Chinese comic to have ever played the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, even performing some of his shows in Mandarin.
Justin Hamilton: The Killing Joke
01/04/2008 … Justin Hamilton is having a midlife crisis, fretful that being a stand-up is no longer the life for a man of 35.
Fox Klein: I'm Telling You For the First Time...Again
01/04/2008 … On first impressions, this show could be tricky to review.
A Record Or An OBE
01/04/2008 … Dramas about the miserable lives of bygone comedians are so in vogue that it surely can’t be long until BBC Four is screening Fozzie Bear: The Crack Years…This…
Tommy Dassalo: Viewmaster
01/04/2008 … Live comedy is being engulfed in tsunami of DIY whimsy, just as the low-rent surrealism of merely mentioning badgers or monkeys found its way into far too many sets…
Daniel Kitson: The Impotent Fury Of The Privileged
01/04/2008 … It’s becoming almost boringly predictable to write about how brilliant a stand-up Daniel Kitson is, but since his latest show hits the mark yet again, the superlatives…