Tim Minchin - Rock 'N' Roll Nerd

Aroview: Intimate doco about gifted musical comedian Minchin charting his rise from obscurity in Melbourne to breakthrough at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, and subsequent peaks and troughs of his fledgling professional career.

Charting a not unsimilar path to our own Flight of the Conchords, Minchin wears his neurosis much more on his sleeve, and as a result is just as compelling as an 'off-stage' subject as he is behind a mike and a piano. A satisfying insight into the fragility of ego of a lone performer, the 'business' reality of show business, and the often mutually-exclusive trade-off between artistic and financial satisfaction, this virtually writes a handbook for budding wannabes with their eyes on the bright lights.

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