John Richards
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
A lot of effort goes in to putting on a comedy show. People write, rehearse, and arrange technical staff, equipment, costumes and make-up. They print up posters, they leaflet the streets, they harangue their friends all to make their show a success. So it’s so sad that sometimes the shows turn out to be just awful.
2006 Vena Und Schnitzel’s World Calypso Experience Tonight! is one of the worst things I have ever seen at a comedy festival. Ill-conceived, unfunny and downright offensive, it’s hard to see why anyone would have …
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
When Lano & Woodley first announced that this was their last show, it was taken as a joke’the duo are still at the height of their comedic power, so surely the title was a play on the seemingly endless ‘farewell’ tours so popular with musicians. But it now dawns that this really is it’the boys are calling it quits and they’re going out with a bang.
This isn’t just a show, it’s a phenomenon. Everything about it belies the traditional logic of comedy’they’re playing the 18-hundred seater Her Majesty’s Theatre, and …
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
About 10 years ago Rod Quantock found his house style and since then he’s stuck to it – a white board, a table and chair, a pile of papers and political comment. Strangely this has turned out to be endearing rather than tired, and by any measure Quantock is one of Australia’s best performers.
One of the only comedians still working from the first comedy festival, twenty years ago, he has an effortless, affable style that makes the evening seem less like a gig and more like a chat with an …
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