Tony Martin live @ Wellers Hill Bowls Club
(18 July 2025)
Tony Martin comes across less as a stand-up comedian (knowingly, affectedly entertaining), more as that witty friend you’ve known since high school who is exasperated and perplexed by the same things in life that you are, but can make it all piss-funny.
Tony Martin Live
(Brisbane Arts Theatre, 14 February 2016)
Tony Martin’s stand-up comedy is nuanced rather than contrived, exposing the daily absurdities of modern society in a brilliantly timed blend of understatement, disbelief, outrage and sangfroid. Martin comes across as the audience’s preternaturally funny best friend: affable, insightful, on-form and uproarious.
Lolly Scramble: A Memoir of Little Consequence
by Tony Martin (Pan, 2005)
The best comedians are those whose humour derives from perspective. Kiwi turned Aussie Tony Martin is one such person, shunning the celebrity world to glean amusement from his everyday life. (Read aloud, his recounting of an amateur theatre mishap becomes life-threateningly funny.)