Unfunny tales with Tim Minchin

Quirkily funny... and makes for deep pondering

Sep 07, 2024

A few weeks ago, my wife and I went to a Tim Minchin show downtown in Toronto breaking our life in the suburbia. I am a sucker for deep-dark comedy which flounders on the reality of the human race and its penchant for psychology and built-in biases.

I enjoy various comedians who are in this vein continuing the likes of the great now deceased George Carlin and the British comedian Ricky Gervais. These comedians are masters of the language, tropes, and nuances and bring out the best of it to enjoy.

I thoroughly enjoyed his exploration of terms like Hedonic Regression, Arrival fallacy, and maladaptive beliefs. If you want to know more on these click on each of the above links to read more.

My wife enjoyed his witty and quirky music and I enjoyed his jaunts in-between. And we both enjoyed his mad piano skills that he demonstrated throughout. And at the very end his ability to bring the audience together to participate in his rendition of Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah”

Tim had stopped performing his stage musicals and comedy in 2012 and back to the stage again. Once a performer you can’t take away the performer from the stage and the stage from the performance and the talented artists keep coming back to fulfill their destiny.

Overall a memorable evening for the two of us, if I can speak for my wife too.