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Rhys Darby

Source: The Guardian

Aug 10, 2009

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Udderbelly's Pasture, Edinburgh

Rhys Darby is clearly enjoying his new-found celebrity. The Flight of the Conchords fans whoop loudly, Darby punches the air and surfs the wave of love. And the rest of us wonder at the disparity between the Kiwi comic's superstar status and this workaday hour of standup.

Pre-TV stardom (in the HBO sitcom, he plays the Conchords' nerdy manager, Murray), Darby was a solo Loony Toon, a distinctive comic act with a neat line in mime and sound effects. That specialism is low in the mix tonight, although his SFX moments (he acts out Jurassic Park; he creates a soundscape of the Vietnam war) are among the show's highlights.

Elsewhere, Darby does conversational standup – and is still trying to find his voice. There is an uncomfortable clash between his default gormless low status and his (slightly self-regarding) stories of life as a Hollywood star. It doesn't help that the Tinseltown anecdotes don't really go anywhere. He hits a richer seam mining Conchords-style Kiwi-yokel humour, as with a routine in which his New Zealand accent

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