Comments on: Must see viewing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival – is there any?

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By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:40:28 +0000

Thx Geoff. I’ll keep my eye out for Adam Hills and Tommy Dean. I don’t really like Jean Kitson for some reason. She’s a bit too intense or something. I do agree that she’s very very clever but somehow her humour is a bit to desparate for my taste. Rod Quantock’s ideological blinkeredness and formulism (?) is very irritating I agree. But I do rather like his silliness. I think I would have liked to have been on his shows a decade or two ago – ‘bus’ and ‘tram’ – in which he took his audience all round Melbourne on a bus – or tram and had them follow him as he held a rubber chook on a stick.

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:32:47 +0000

I like Adam Hills and Tommy Dean. Jean Kitson isn’t in the program but she is almost certainly the best comic in Australia. I quite like Ross Noble but not Greg Fleet whose entire schtick seems to be about the fact that he used to be a smack addict – which isn’t all that funny after a while. Rod Quantock is a miserable one-note bore and should be chucked down a deep well.

Dave Hughes used to be good but I suspect that – like Peter Garrett – he may be selling out. Paul McDermott is dark, dangerous and incredibly clever.

Wil Anderson is a celebrity.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:34:24 +0000

Fair enough. It’s all a matter of taste. When I saw him he wasn’t doing Christopher Reeve jokes though.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:01:20 +0000

Tigtog,

I saw Ross Noble and didn’t think much of him. He was OK I guess. But I didn’t think he had much to offer. Seemed pretty adolescent to me. And did quadriplegic jokes – about Christopher Reeve. Now I do understand that breaking taboos (like making fun of quadriplegics) can be funny. But he wasn’t (IMHO).

By: Francis X Holden

Francis X Holden — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:38:45 +0000

I agree. Most of the current crop of comedians are not funny and blokey, anti-intellectual, crude and schoolboyish – especially those over 30 yo and the women.

I did used to like Shaun’s Show on TV.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:05:04 +0000

Ross Noble. Saw him in Sydney last year and actually laughed until I cried. Mad as a cut snake in the best possible way.