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Comedy Festival review: The Porne Identity, Audrey Porne
14 May, 2021 04:05 AM
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By: Ethan Sills There s a big difference between being funny on Twitter and funny on stage. It s easy for some (certainly not me) to fire out the odd quip from time to time and rake in the likes, but it s a big leap from 120 characters to putting together a full hour-length show.
Audrey Porne has been one of New Zealand s Twitter comedy darlings for a few years now and has enjoyed viral success for some time – barely hours before her show premiered on Thursday night, a friend in Melbourne was sharing one of her jokes on Facebook. She has broad appeal, but the question hanging over her debut Comedy Festival hour was whether that cyber success can translate to real life.
Ben Elton performs his latest stand-up show in Christchurch this month as part of a national tour.
VICKI ANDERSON offers a few highlights of events in Ōtautahi Christchurch this weekend and beyond. Mosque attack survivor, Mazharuddin Syed Ahmed is one of the most beautiful people I’ve had the good fortune to meet. Since that fateful day he has devoted his attention to painstakingly documenting every act of aroha and support shown to our Muslim community. An academic, he has developed a course that aims to spread aroha in our society. He still struggles with what happened that day and has hard times but has turned his focus to helping to create a positive future. His presentation, Ferns of Aroha, is on Friday, make time for it if you can. I imagine he will be nervous so show up and support him. You won’t regret it.