This guy, Tim Minchin, is my new favorite comedian. If you’ve heard of him, you either agree or disagree with me, but I’m sure you’ve already made up your mind. I can’t imagine anybody saying “eh, he’s all right.” You’re going to either love him, or hate him.
If you’ve never heard of him, check him out. At first glance, with the weird hair and all, you might think he’s a Russell Brand wannabe but outside of the hair and the eye make-up and the sort of irreverently radical attitude, they aren’t that much alike. Can Russell Brand play the piano? I thought not.
Tim Minchin
This link is a tender little lullaby for babies with such sweet, tender lines as “I wish a dingo would come and rip off your fat, bitching head.”
I also quite enjoyed the song called “Kiddie Stuffer,” but if my children were overweight it probably would have pissed me off. He definitely veered away from comedy into diatribe in an absolute orgy of fat shaming.
I agree with his point. If your kids have a weight problem, stop feeding them fattening foods and make sure they get some exercise. But, I can sure see how some people might have been offended.
He’s a bit like George Carlin except that I actually think George Carlin is overrated as a comic. I like the things he says but he comes across, to me, as an angry young man who went to his grave as an angry old man. The trick to being a great political comic is 75% comedy, minimum and 25% politics, maximum*. Even Lewis Black observes that rule. George Carlin crossed it all the time. Also, like Russell Brand, George Carlin couldn’t play the piano.
I also enjoyed “Thank God” and “Storm” because they expressed a rational, scientific, non-mystical view of the universe that is shared with Bill Maher and myself, but Minchin is about a million times funnier than Bill Maher with his pissy little “rules.” I thought he was very mean to the girl known as Storm, though, who was perfectly correct in saying that pharmaceutical companies are evil and science has not yet provided a clear definition of love.
I guess what I’m saying is that I suspect, even though I seriously admire this guy’s talent and share many of his views on society and religion, he might be a real dick to hang out with. Andy Kaufmann was like that.
*I just made that up.
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