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I would call this thread 'Rove article', but there probably won't be enough specifically comedy-based articles to keep it going. So here's a spot for the narky reviewer or unhappy columnist.

This is from the Herald Sun Sunday Eye.


Rove never on the nose
Rove McManus's supporters and critics have hit the The Eye inbox with comment about his nationwide tour
20may05

THREE weeks since the Logies and still any mention of Rove "some bits are live" McManus sparks argument.

Among Eye readers, it's about a 50/50 split on whether he's funny or not.
So news that he was hitting the road for a live stand-up tour got people buzzing all over again.

Maryanne leapt to his defence, saying we were being too harsh.

"Cut the poor guy some slack," she told us. "The people of Australia voted for him to win a Gold Logie, he didn't single-handedly vote himself in."

Fair point. It was a public vote, and we're sure those stories about thousands of copies of TV Week with the voting coupons cut out being dumped in bins behind Channel 10 are just stories.

Then Robert got stuck in.

"Oh joy, Rove is hitting the road. Some one should be hitting him. With a humour stick," said Robby boy. "Oh give me a break, the guy is not even funny, his show is crap, his interviews are an embarrassment, with hardly any laughs from the audience."

Ouch, but the last word comes from Janet, who remembers Rove from his early days on the stand-up circuit.

"I remember laughing my a--- off on countless occasions," she told The Eye.

"As for wearing suits onstage, I only recall Rove being a jeans and T-shirt guy.

"Oh, but 'I love Rove' was definitely on dunny doors at the Espy.

"And Rove was always clean and didn't smell (unlike those dunnies)." Thanks for that little extra detail, Janet.