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Fact or Fiction? You Decide…

The Comedy Cure is on a mission. This quartet – often described as the Guerrillas of Wellington stand up – are bringing the truth back to the stage, and they are doing it every way they know how: power ballads; student film; interpretive dance; good old fashioned OHPs; and raw, blistering stand up comedy.

“We’re on a crusade,” says Cameron Murray, the Comedy Cure’s resident historian. “But not the bad kind with swords and horses, more like the good kind with Indiana Jones and biplanes”. Cameron has had a burning desire to carry out this campaign for many years, but it wasn’t until he met TJ McDonald at the Wellington Comedy Club that he discovered a kindred spirit.

“For too long, the ‘Truth’ has been held in the purview of newsreaders and scientists and such forth – and they’ve made it boring!” Explains TJ. “We’ve decided to reclaim ‘Truth’ for the masses. From now on ‘Facts’ are no longer things that ARE true, but things we WISH were true.”

Nick Grimwood, the newest recruit to the Comedy Cure squad, has recently come to accept that there is a desperate need to get these new facts out into the public consciousness. “Take Beetroot. Real?” Asks Nick rhetorically. “Quite wrong. In truth; a massive Soviet cover-up.”

Jim Stanton – the brains, beauty and dress sense of the Comedy Cure – always remembers the advice her mum gave her when she decided to join the team. She said, “You look fine and don’t listen to what the other kids say”.

So come and see the “Fact or Fiction? You Decide…” and prepare to be blown away as your mind is open to a world of truth you never even knew existed, mainly because it didn’t until quite recently. You will marvel as these fresh-faced young comics deny boring truths and perpetuate lies at speeds of up to 40mph! Or do they?...

Dates: Wed 23 – Sat 26 May, 10pm
Venue: Comedy Underground, Wallace Trust Gallery, 305 Queen St, Auckland City
Tickets: Adults $10 Conc. $8 Groups 10+ $8
Bookings: Ticketek 0800 TICKETEK (0800 842 5385)
Show Duration: 1 hour

Dates: Wed 9, Thur 10 & Sat 12 May, 8pm
Venue: Mighty Mighty, Level 1, 104 Cuba St, Wellington City
Tickets: Adults $10 Conc. $8 Groups 10+ $8
Bookings: Comedy Cure 021 037 5087
Show Duration: 1 hour

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