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Originally Posted by Munchkin I'm considering giving Wil another chance, how is his new material? |
The new stuff he's written for this show is good...thought provoking as is usual from Wil, and definately funny *g* His claim of getting rid of all of his "old" material, though, has been misinterpreted. He hasn't written an entire show that no one's heard before, he's just chucked out everything from his earlier comfest shows. Which is a good thing because it was really starting to date *g*
If you listen to JJJ and watch GH and read his cosmo articles, you'll recognise bits, but even when he's practically quoting his cosmo article about bikini waxing verbatim, it's still funny to watch him actually saying it. He has a good performance style, and seeing the material live really does bring it to life.
The genuinely brand new material is good...a bit of personal stuff, some general cultural things, a LOT of parent bashing (hysterical when you know his parents are actually in the crowd and he's impersonating his mother and swearing a lot *eg*) and some pretty impressive political stuff. Wil is one of the few comedians who can take you from laughing really hard at something, to sitting there going "hmm" and nodding in agreement with what he's saying.
Him and Fleety, I think would be my top two thought-provoking comedians *G*
But yeah, the show is worth catching...he's let go of "can't use the atm, don't like the new technology...but you put them in front of a poker machine!" and Steve Irwin jokes, and Burgo's Catchphrase, and "how my breast implants saved my life", to our great relief *g* and he's come up with some excellent new material. I'd say the show will develop more before it comes to comfest, he confessed on Friday that he'd only just written some of the material he did that night for and during the preview shows.