![]() Hollywood Tourette's: Angry (Feet), the funniest being the involuntary quacks whenever he mentions his doctor.Also in Five Poofs and Two Pianos, where he considers being gay to be part of the "Four Poofs and a Piano" band."Adam Hillsong," made especially hilarious by the fact that you can see the exact moment when the subject (victim?) of the song realizes what the "apple" euphemism is.His makeup starts running (because he had been sweating under hot lights for two hours) during the Royal Albert Hall show while performing "Dark Side". Guyliner: Because his performance doesn't allow him to gesture, he uses Guyliner to make his facial expressions easier to read from the audience.Grief Song: The aptly titled The Grief Song, also known as Fuck The Poor.Green Aesop: "Canvas Bags" advocates carrying your shopping in reusable canvas bags instead of plastic ones.My heart says "I love you", but my brain's thinking " fuck you"Īnd hoping a child trafficker will abduct youĪt least then I'll get a few hours in bed I don't know what else I can do to try to hush you Comically Missing the Point: "Happy Little Africuns":.You may as well call it Cluster F-Bomb: The Song. Cluster F-Bomb: 86 times in The Pope Song.But the Re Veal ( Daddy never came to my ball games.) takes the cake. Genius Bonus: It's known among serious vocalists that F is a difficult key for the human voice to stick to without instruments to keep them on the straight and narrow, the majority of choirs will slide sharp or flat when attempting it.Brown Note: "F Sharp" may very well be the real deal.And a sense of the passage of time." The whole joke of of the song is being performed on talk shows and lasting for three minutes, because if he goes over people watching the talk show will get bored. In "Three Minute Song": "Yeah, I got people.In the second verse of "Rock 'n' Roll Nerd", he mentions guitar kids learning Stairway To Heaven.In Cont, he expresses hatred to the rich and poor who use wealth/poverty as an excuse for bigotry, bitches who get rabies and try to bite babies and whores who don't accept Visa.Angry (Feet) gets weirder and more psychotic, until the narrator finally admits to cutting his psychotherapist's feet off and kicking him in the head with them.Perhaps you'd even store a little more in a flask. Like a fire needs oxygen, like a flower needs a bee. It is, of course, "ginger".īecause I need you, like a fish needs a sea. Bait-and-Switch: "Prejudice", a song about a nasty word that has caused no end of damage and hurt to people, spelled with "a couple of Gs, an R and an E, an I and an N".Author Tract: Of the good kind in Storm, in which Tim makes a passionate argument for rationalism.The fact they were off-tempo may have had something to do with it. Averted in one of the versions of Dark Side when he tells the clapping audience to shut up.Lampshaded and subverted in both Hello and I Love Jesus.Although in Peace Anthem he has a habit of setting up obvious jumping in points for the audience before cutting them off with more piano solo. Canvas Bags and Peace Anthem For Palestine.Audience Participation: He often talks to members of the audience during performances.Likewise, his stand-up skit about assuming that all ice-cream van operators are paedophiles.WoodyAllenJesus is built on this trope.TELEVISION: Sometimes Tim is on your telly, appearing on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He has also appeared on many variety and late night shows in Australia and the US.Like Disgusted from the Isle of Wight, andĪnd Slightly Annoyed from Berwick-on-Tweed. He has also made one called So F*****g Rock and one called Ready For This? Film credits include Friar Tuck in Lionsgate’s Robin Hood (2018).ĭVDS: Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra, Live at the Royal Albert Hall is the latest of Tim’s five comedy DVDs. #Tim minchin seriesTV appearances include: Atticus Fetch in Californication Smasher Sullivan in the ABC’s Secret River, and Lucky Flynn in the Sky Atlantic/Foxtel series Upright, which he co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced. He is the composer-lyricist of Groundhog Day, directed by Matthew Warchus.ĪCTING: Theatre credits include Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Sydney Theatre Company, Judas in the 2012-2013 Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour of Australia and the UK, and the title roles in Hamlet and Amadeus for Perth Theatre Company. TRAINED: University of WA and the Conservatorium of WA.ĬOMEDY: As a musical satirist, he has toured in the US, the UK and Australia, performing solo, with bands and with symphony orchestras.ĬOMPOSITION & LYRICISM: Tim wrote his first theatrical score at 18, and wrote music and lyrics for many small productions in his twenties. ![]()
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