Comedy Festival Review: Marcel Lucont
Review by Tina Moore
Every year I say to myself that I’d like to see more shows come Comedy Festival time. Most years I have failed miserably due to lack of organisation or just general laziness. This year I actually got organised and pre-arranged a whole bunch of tickets to various gigs. The first of which was last night - Marcel Lucont at the Loft @ Q.
I honestly had no idea what to expect from his show, I hadn’t heard of him before and his blurb in the festival program shed no light on the situation. I didn’t even get as far as googling him, I simply got the tickets and turned up.
For a Monday night, the Q Theatre venue on Auckland’s Queen St was positively humming - I love the vibe that the Comedy Festival brings to the city! (On a side note, it is great to have an awesome new purpose-built performance space in the city. Lovely job they’ve done with it.)
The show kicked off at 8.45pm, and about 60 or so keen punters filled the seats of the smaller Loft room. It’s an intimate little space, and it was perfect for the style of comedy Marcel Lucont practices. He describes himself as ‘a flâneur, raconteur, bon-viveur, and easily the greatest UK-based French comedian around’. That was certainly the basis of his show - a hilarious display of how, as a Frenchman, he was better than us, and his witty observations of other cultures. His combo of deadpan arrogance, egoism, sleaze and ‘sexy poems’ was brilliant and had the audience laughing right from start to finish. I particularly loved his list of 50 ways to leave your lover, and also his diary entries from his 14 year-old self.
Definitely one to check out if you can - he has another couple of shows, you can get more info about times and tickets here.
I honestly had no idea what to expect from his show, I hadn’t heard of him before and his blurb in the festival program shed no light on the situation. I didn’t even get as far as googling him, I simply got the tickets and turned up.
For a Monday night, the Q Theatre venue on Auckland’s Queen St was positively humming - I love the vibe that the Comedy Festival brings to the city! (On a side note, it is great to have an awesome new purpose-built performance space in the city. Lovely job they’ve done with it.)
The show kicked off at 8.45pm, and about 60 or so keen punters filled the seats of the smaller Loft room. It’s an intimate little space, and it was perfect for the style of comedy Marcel Lucont practices. He describes himself as ‘a flâneur, raconteur, bon-viveur, and easily the greatest UK-based French comedian around’. That was certainly the basis of his show - a hilarious display of how, as a Frenchman, he was better than us, and his witty observations of other cultures. His combo of deadpan arrogance, egoism, sleaze and ‘sexy poems’ was brilliant and had the audience laughing right from start to finish. I particularly loved his list of 50 ways to leave your lover, and also his diary entries from his 14 year-old self.
Definitely one to check out if you can - he has another couple of shows, you can get more info about times and tickets here.
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