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9th March 2007, 10:00 WST
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Perth’s Tim Minchin has won a prestigious award at the American comedy festival which launched the careers of top comedians Jack Black and Ray Romano.
Minchin’s solo show won Best Alternative Comedy Act at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in the ski resort of Aspen, Colorado.
The buzz around Minchin was huge, with Hollywood agents and producers circling him and one of the biggest newspapers in the US calling him “the clear break-out star of the festival”.
Minchin’s first international breakthrough came in 2005 when he won best newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.
Now based in London with his wife Sarah and baby daughter Violet, Minchin had interrupted his first tour of Britain to attend the Aspen event as one of only two international performers invited by the comedy festival organisers.
He returns to Australia next week for a national tour which includes a night in Perth at His Majesty’s Theatre on April 14.
Described in The Los Angeles Times as a quirky Australian comedian-singer-pianist, Minchin took the stage at Aspen’s late-night Fat City Lounge in long undertaker’s coat, mascara and bare feet.
“He wowed the crowd with brilliantly inventive and strange comic songs,” the paper said.
STEPHEN BEVIS ARTS EDITOR