Comedy
Along with longtime friends Dan Debuf, Luke Ryan and Matt Saraceni, Verhoeven runs a fortnightly sketch comedy podcast called Lords of Luxury. They have also performed sketches live as a comedy show in the 2011 and 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and 2012 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Reviewing their 2011 Melbourne season, Rabbit Hole Urban Music called them "endlessly entertaining"; however The Enthusiast argued "the fact that sketch comedy is often performed by undergraduates doesn’t make it a place for undergraduate humour, and I’m afraid the Lords of Luxury fall into that trap."
The Adelaide Advertiser wrote of their 2012 show, "The dapper devils shine when they delve off script and interact with the audience. The joke is on them and they embrace it."
In Melbourne, the Herald Sun opined: "The Lords of Luxury are unlikely to win a prize for comedy writing, but still put on an entertaining show. If their material was half as strong as they are as performers, they'd go a long way."
The Age wrote, "A claque of helpless Lords cultists kept up a delirious response from the front tables throughout, pausing only to throw panties at the end. It was that kind of night."
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Famous quotes containing the word comedy:
“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“It is comedy which typifies, where it is tragedy which individualizes; where tragedy observes the nice distinctions between man and man, comedy stresses those broad resemblances which make it difficult to tell people apart.”
—Harry Levin (b. 1912)