Matt Stellingwerf in BACHELOR OF ARTS
Inch Bar, 8 Bank St, Northeast Valley, Dunedin
09/03/2016 - 12/03/2016
Production Details
Bachelor of Arts is one comedian’s attempt to find a use for the most useless of tertiary degrees and perhaps, in the process, prove that a BA is not as worthless as boring business, creepy computer science and arrogant law students would have you believe! I have gone through all the papers I completed on my Arts journey and have compiled a list of the greatest hits, from Criminology to Philosophy, Ancient History to English Literature.
This show will be an engaging, educational, interesting, and most importantly, hilarious hour of stand-up, covering; the U. S. Constitution & iTunes, Norse mythology, the sordid lives of the Olympians (if they had Tinder), Shakespeare’s influence on sexting, the difference between men and women (as explained by Evolutionary Anthropology), and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and how it predicted the break up of One Direction.
Join Four-time NZ Comedy Guild Award Winner and 2015 & 2016 Billy T Award Nominee Matt Stellingwerf (Maori TV Crack Up, TVONE Coverband, AotearoHA Rising Stars) for an awesome hour of stand-up comedy at the 2016 Dunedin Fringe.
“Amazingly witty, utterly filthy, undeniably lovable!” – Keeping Up With NZ
Inch Bar, 8 Bank Street, Dunedin
Wed 9 Mar – Sat 12 Mar 2016
7:30pm
R18
Free / Koha
Theatre , Stand-up comedy ,
Raises the comedy bar
Review by Jenny Gleeson 10th Mar 2016
When this erudite satire-superstar gets onto the stage for his comedy set, the acceleration from zero to a hundred jokes is measured in seconds. Matt Stellingwerf’s deftly crafted hour-long set – in fact it goes for longer – is over far too quickly. Here is a seriously good comedic talent.
Matt’s intelligent comedy is an interdisciplinary mix of the self-deprecating, satirical and hyperbolic. Grazing upon an all-encompassing choice of topics, he presents information that combines the informative or the personal narrative with pithy personal observations, and the audience laughs easily and applauds readily.
He has an effortless confidence and is possessed of a talent for rapid audience interaction that is safe and unthreatening, with the disarming ability to amuse and make you feel smart all at the same time. I’m certain he can conjure up truckloads more material if required.
He chats about primatology, criminology, social media, politics and politicians, love, and the difference between men and women, among other things … If he looks like leaving the room without talking about the US Constitution, detain him. It’s a superb story. Demand also to hear about ‘caring’ on Facebook. They, as with the others, are well-constructed yarns, embellished with original thought enough to completely restore faith in the validity of an Arts Degree.
Further, his opinions or observations, some of which seem researched and factually based and are interesting anecdotes in their own rights, are bracketed in jokes that are themselves bracketed in jokes. Even simple scrutiny of his audience’s reactions, or summaries of his immediately preceding spiel, are funny.
His cracker pace slows slightly for a period somewhere in the second half, but because all things are relative, it is still a sparkling set.
Note this man’s name. Go see him raise the comedy bar. Get to the Inch Bar early, because the space is not huge and on opening night it is almost full. He is clearly destined for big things, so that in the future when you see him and his name on TV, you can boast that you saw him in person.
Matt Stellingwerf is a man to watch out for.
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