Posts by David Cormack
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The intertubes is filled with douchebags waffling on about how Women Aren't Funny
This mentality really upsets me. Like I said many pages ago, Sweetman is never seen at local comedy nights. If he did bother to haul his ass in he'd see some great local comics - male and female!
The likes of Michele A'Court, Justine Smith and Jan Maree have shown for many years that NZ churns out not just great female comics but great comics in general. And there's a whole raft of newcomers out there, Heidi and Rose from Auckland, or the Comediettes from Wellington are fantastic.
I'm quite passionate about standup and when I see dickheads like Sweetman bag it from a point of complete ignorance it really pisses me off.
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I'm also a wee bit bored with the inverted cultural cringe where everything not only had to be grossly over-praised, but reviewers are expected to be unpaid PR flacks
Nah, don't buy it. What I'm saying in my point isn't that he shouldn't be negative but that he shouldn't be a negative douche.
The slight on mrs.peacock wasn't relevant to his review and neither was the comment about all (**ALL!**) female comedians in this country being interchangeable and only talking about their genitalia.
That displays a massive level of pig-ignorance. I'm a frequent attendee at the San Francisco Bath House comedy nights and I don't think I've seen Sweetman there once other than at festival time. Quite how he knows about all the women comedians in this country beyond me.
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and there was a discussion of a Simon Sweetman blog post which has a certain all-NZ-comedy-is-shit flavour that I'm kind of bored of.
Simon Sweetman is an embarrassment to proper reviewers.
He bad mouths NZ comedy (and music) sometimes with a personal slant.
The blog post in question was a review of the second season of the Conchords which was fair, but then he criticised mrs.peacock (an award winning comedy duo) and female comedians in NZ (that's right...all of them). These attacks weren't relevant to the DVD review, it was just Sweetman being Sweetman and putting himself into the review.
Personally speaking, I'm glad Sweetman isn't going to any shows, I know if I were doing a show this year I wouldn't let him in. The guy comes in with his pre-conceived ideas of how poor NZ comedy is and doesn't budge. He just comes across as a bitter fool.
sigh rant over
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your contribution was predictable from precisely the second syllable.
well done!To be fair to Mr Johnson, I wasn't sure at what paragraph it became predictable to him so that was a surprise.
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Come on guys, you're just not trying. Come back when you've worked in Big Pharma, the man-hating Lesbian-Marxists and the Jooows...
I think you'll find that those of us in the nasally gifted class are collectively shaking our heads and saying "told you so...should've gone kosher."
Of course had we consumed the pigs to the point of extinction then maybe this wouldn't have happened... -
trusted that should be
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All these ideas are well and good but what it comes down to for me personally is that I trust Graham Henry and invested an awful lot of emotion in him and the 2007 World Cup. I'm still coming to terms with it.
For me, watching Rugby is like seeing your ex-girlfriend again, the one who you proposed to but she turned you down and that was the end of the relationship.
Now you're at a dinner party and she's there and you're expected to be civil?
Fuck that.
I'm still bitter.
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And then Redbaiter...
Isn't that the title of a horror film?
Just to derail for a brief moment, it's been interesting to watch Ryan Sproull play his way through the Kiwiblog mire...they almost respect him now.
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Reasons to be cheerful says the heading!
Wonderful says I!
And what is this reason to be cheerful, why the Great Blend is back. That's fantastic I think.
But oh no, not in Wellington.
And here's some cheerful domestic abuse information.
I'd hate to read a post titled "reasons to be sad"!!!
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I don't want to rain on everyone's nice parade, but Barack Obama is sworn in as President and but 90 minutes later Wellington City is "crippled" by a power cut....
Coincidence?