Tim Minchin: Back (2022) User Reviews

He is Aging Like Fine White Wine (Under the Sun)

[sweetsyerra · 10/10 · 1 February 2023]

I rented this. On my third watching in that 48 hour window, so buying it will happen. That's okay. He's worth it. Why I want to give my money to someone who makes me cry, I guess, is between me and my therapist. If you are part of Tim's "tribe" (similarly-minded folks) this will hit every note, tickle your funny bone and tug at the heartstrings. The band rocks and is just the right size, and Tim is adorable, even when pushing a broom. (Trying not to put spoilers.) And he looks damn good for being late 40s. Damn good. DAMN good. (More talk with the therapist about me and younger guys. Ha ha.)

Plus, the dude can really sing.

GO. BACK. SO DISAPPOINTED

[badmel65 · 1/10 · 24 August 2023]

I'd like to start by saying that I've always loved Tim but I'm so angry right now instead of laughing.

How the mighty have fallen, or at least he thinks he's mighty because most of the show he just bragged about himself and almost smashed glass into the audience's faces because he had to drink "a shot" of tequila to slow himself down on a rant that was so fast no one could understand him. He then proceeded to smash the glass at the edge of the stage!

I was so excited to see him do something new and wonderful after his performance with the Heritage Orchestra but after seeing this I only hope that that cage is still around and they can put him back into it as he just acted like a prima donna orangutan.

He belittled and berated, and not in a fun way, the audience and their ability to understand his musical talents. He also insulted L. A., one of the towns in the United States which made him very famous *and rich* worldwide, proceeding to insult the city and it's highlights. So I guess he made his money and then ran back to Australia. That's just low.

I didn't take it to heart at first but waited patiently for something funny to happen only to be disappointed by another song that we all know and have heard him do multiple times before about a man named Sam and his mum and how their religious beliefs and actions saved her vision. Was he going to sing about Prejudice next? No. He goes on acting a fool and does a few original numbers which really don't get any high scores from not only me but from what others have stated in interviews. He continues with a song about not wanting to be lonely and not effing someone because he loves his wife and the hardship of traveling to maintain, increase his net woth, to put it politely. The person responded with "What do you want? An effing medal?" Right? We get it. You love your wife even though you make jokes at her and your children's expense and this time it wasn't funny.

Towards the end of the show he did a song after a short introduction about staying at a party and talking too much. That's how I feel about this show.

He once was a man in a cage and he was all the rage. He came to L. A. Got majorly paid and then went away.

This is what we get after 10 years? I give up on Tim. I adored his wild and whacky barefooted ways. Couldn't get enough. I expected so much more from a man of his caliber. One laugh=one star.

What a shame...

[adamkzane · 3/10 · 12 April 2024]

Other than a pretty brief rant about confirmation bias that is nice, the majority of this performance feels either recycled or has no intention of being funny. Admittedly Tim has found himself in a landscape where atheism is no longer as "edgy" and funny as it was a decade ago, and thus his humor moved away from it, and suffers as a result.

He also seemingly messes up the rhythm of past jokes like when retelling his "thank you god" joke, he says he won't make fun of religion, and the punchline is supposed to be the song that suddenly starts making fun of religion, but he destroys the joke by telling the punchline before even singing the song by saying stuff about Jesus.

The joke is supposed to go: I don't make fun of religion anymore -> crowd goes awww -> he says sorry, I wrote a song about it to explain why -> crowd goes oh? -> punchline hits with the rhythm speeding up halfway through the song to make fun.

Instead it goes: I don't make fun of religion anymore -> crowd goes awww -> he says sorry -> then for some reason tells some jokes about religion -> then reverts back to the not making fun of religion at the start of the song. Therefore breaking the actual punchline of the song and that part of the act!