{"id":27,"date":"2009-03-05T02:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T09:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/rants\/a-real-funny-guy"},"modified":"2024-04-18T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T09:53:34","slug":"a-real-funny-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/rants\/a-real-funny-guy","title":{"rendered":"Tim Minchin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a cool comedian called Tim Minchen last night at the Auckland Festival. He is *the bomb*. He is the re-incarnation of Frank Zappa in some ways - mixing comedy with music in a quite prodigeous way. His piano playing ability reminded me of that Family Guy episode whereby Peter gets drunk and plays piano extremely well, but only when inebriated. This guys hands were like that... all over the piano evern when he was in the key of C# Minor.<\/p>\n<p>Another point to note - he is extremely atheist, doing melancolly tracks intermixed with \"i love boobs\", and this track below... If I didn't Have You:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVN_0qvuhhw?si=YRlqRLWuMeY2d8u7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a cool comedian called Tim Minchen last night at the Auckland Festival. He is *the bomb*. He is the re-incarnation of Frank Zappa in some ways &#8211; mixing comedy with music in a quite prodigeous way. 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