DIANE SPENCER

BIO  GIGS  PHOTOS  MEDIA  MERCH

PRESS and AWARDS

Best Newcomer 2011, Chortle Awards – Winner
Best Comedy (Emerging) 2011, Adelaide Fringe – Nominee
Best Female Comedian 2009, New Zealand Comedy Guild – Nominee
Best Actress 2009, Auckland Heat, 48 Hour Film Competition – Nomineee
Best Newcomer 2007, New Zealand Comedy Guild – Nominee

“Spencer delights in mining the crudest elements of sex and bodily functions for toe-curling but breathtaking entertainment. And like all the best specialists in shocking material, she does it all with relish and brio. When it comes to teasing out the nuances of unsuccessful blowjobs or deconstructing diarrhoea, she’s a foul-mouthed match for any of the more celebrated male stand-ups” The Guardian (April 2011)
“if you’re going to mine your sex life for material and pepper your act with expletives, you’d better have the talent, timing and innate intelligence to back it up… Spencer has all that in spades” **** Herald Sun (Aus)
“the crowd was roaring with laughter, squealing with delight, and occasionally screaming in terror” ****½ Adelaide Now (Aus)
“winsome and devilish” The Guardian
“Spencer’s innocently charming manner enables her to get away with the excesses of her content and, by contrast, adds to their impact and comic effect” The Pun
“a cleverly interwoven series of dark, edgy and hilarious experiences” TheatreView (NZ)
“this assured Fringe debut is a rollickingly good slice of frank, ungimmicky stand-up, with a delivery that’s both technically adroit and infused with her compelling personality. She could be the female Jim Jefferies, with an honesty and humility that makes her abject embarrassment riotously hilarious" **** Chortle
“Spencer approaches her stand up with such an affable humility she might have you thinking of the girl next door, but she swiftly turns heads as she gushes the deliciously dirty, raucously rude and delightfully intelligent talent that she is being praised for” **** Three Weeks

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