Rod Quantock – Changing Regimes
Rod Quantock @ Nova 2
8:15pm, Tue 24 Feb 2004
Score: 8
Short Review: Quintessential Quantock
Ah, “quintessential” may be slightly misleading – bad luck, Quantock fans, there’s no blackboard (or even whiteboard) to be found. However, Australia’s favourite lefty comedian is still in fine form, depsite claiming to have done no preparation for tonight’s show, the first in his season.
Covering the problems with the Australian left (“the Left overlooks the concept of assasination”), his desire to see our Prime Minister living at the bottom of a deep hole (“we should all be digging”), Mark Latham (“he was born in a manger”), and the real reason Australia has no space program, this was a rambling show that delivered heavily on the laughs, even as Quantock was allowed to “drift from satire to vitriol”.
And, let’s face it – if I’ve seen Quantock 4 times in 4 Fringes, then surely all Q-Fans should know what to expect. If you’ve seen him before, go again; if you haven’t – and have a leftist leaning to your politics, or just don’t care – then trot along to get educated.