Hullo I am clearly still reading ‘We Need To Talk About Kelvin’, and very much practising the read-it-through-twice-then-explain-it-to-another way of getting it to STICK. So ( Read more... )

Oooh, Minchin's playing with the Horne Section on October 22nd, at the Criterion, and the internet hasn't noticed yet. Buy buy buy!

Man, Twitter really does take all the stress out of stalking, doesn't it? Orc-ing, I suppose.

Moved to ascertain whether it WAS Penn Jillette we saw at last week's O2 extravanganza, I turned to the internet and lo: confirmation.

Saw @TimMinchin in London. Been waiting my whole life for a smart, loving, responsible, atheist skeptical funny ( Read more... )

On Tuesday I went to see Tim Minchin. Sat behind Richard Herring. Who appraised the night thusly...

...I had tickets in the evening to see a newer comedy hero, Tim Minchin at the O2 arena. I have been unconvinced by the wisdom of doing comedy in such large venues when before today, but Minchin took the problem head on, not only writing a song ( Read more... )

And for Minchin balance, a snippety bit of something bouncy and swear-free, from Monday...

Yes yes, half of all December sales go to Autism research. And it's not on Sony. And it's not teenage reactionary but heartfelt and actually, you know, Christmassy. But still. The most pleasing thing about the push to get Tim Minchin's 'White Wine in the Sun' to chart is it's a song people who haven't heard it before may be enchanted by when they ( Read more... )

Barry Award* nominations are out, for acts at the Melbourne Festival. Minchin has a nod, go Tim. And Asher too. A man I once had to heckle with the panicky warning of "that one's got a knife!" as a child came stomping through a Festival field towards the stage to take revenge on the gasbag frontrow tween who wouldn't shush... happily, it was a ( Read more... )

Comedian/Musician/Splendid Tim Minchin would like people to send him 10-60 seconds worth of footage of themselves dancing along to his stirring PETA anthem, Bears Don’t Dig on Dancing, in some way dressed as a bear. (N.B. An actual bear, not a furry homosexualist.) He's making a video, see.

Behold, Tim and one of his own beary dancers:

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