The controversial comedian and 30 Rock co-star earned catcalls and walkouts from audience members, harsh notices from reviewers, and demands for refunds and boycotts – all for a routine at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival that even regular comedy fans are calling hateful, misogynistic and unfunny.
Author: Matthew Westphal
How Nasty Was Tracy Morgan’s Melbourne Stand-Up Routine?
“This is an unpleasant, graphic, charmless 45-minute tirade – brevity being a rare redeeming feature – sharing his baser instincts in putrid detail, and very little humour.” Reviewer Steve Bennett provides some excerpts that we’ll call … unappetizing.
Santiago Calatrava Sued By Client Over Leaky Roof
“A dozen years after Calatrava built the spectacular Ysios winery in the rainy Alava region of northern Spain, the building’s dramatic, undulating roof continues to let in the damp. Now Domecq, the owner of the winery, has said it is fed up with the botched attempts of Calatrava’s original builders at fixing the roof and wants [€2m] from them so that it can bring in fresh architects and engineers to design a new one.”
São Paulo Art Fair Seeks Designs For Museum That Won’t Be Built
“The Panorama da Arte Brasileira will pit itself against the very museum that is hosting it: the exhibition will comprise architectural proposals for a new home for the Museu de Arte Moderna, the building in Ibirapuera park that has been home to Panorama since it began 44 years ago.”
Can You Make A Musical Out Of A Degas Sculpture? These Folks Will Try
“The songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Tony Award winners for Ragtime, will collaborate with the Tony-winning director Susan Stroman (The Producers) on the world premiere of the new musical Little Dancer in October 2014″ at the Kennedy Center.
Help The Guardian Battle Arts Jargon!
“Well, in an effort to do just that, and inject a little bit of fun into your week, why not help us in collecting some of the most confusing, complex and inaccessible arts bumph about, as a lesson in what not to do the next time you decide to put pen on paper.”
Crowd Psychology: Has The Boston Marathon Bombing Ruined Mass Public Events?
“Will the masses at NFL events do ‘the wave’ only in the watchful sights of a police sharpshooter’s high-powered rifle? Is tailgating before the game all but nostalgic history? Will major marathons be relegated to a dull repetition of 105 or so loops around a stadium track?” Probably not. But there will be some lasting ill effects, especially for certain groups.
Jailed Bolshoi Dancer Denied Bail In Acid Attack Case
A Moscow judge found that Pavel Dmitrichenko, the alleged mastermind of the acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin, is a flight risk and should be detained until at least June 18.
Minnesota Orchestra Management And Musicians Fighting Over Terms Of Audit
“Citing frustration over lack of progress in discussions with locked-out musicians over an independent analysis of the orchestra’s finances, management at the Minnesota Orchestra today announced it has launched a study on its own.” Management insists that the analysis be numbers-only and not include assessments of executive or board performance; the musicians object to those limitations.
Sharon Olds Wins Poetry Pulitzer For Collection About Her Divorce
“The Pulitzer citation called Stag’s Leap ‘a book of unflinching poems on the author’s divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge’.”