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Keith Simes's avatar

Ngā mihi Nick. Perfectly written, but I couldn’t find the satire… I bet Luxon has Nicola locked up in the cattery while he’s away, lest she takes an opportunity to…

Clare Sheehan's avatar

He’d reject that characterisation just you watch 🙀

Kaye L's avatar

What satire???

John Blyde's avatar

We could do a swap with Aussie, Keep "The Bald Ego" and return Jacinda.

Russ Sewell's avatar

What a bloody good idea that is!!

Russ Sewell's avatar

It's the handshake that gets me, why does he have to grip the upper arm as well. Makes me cringe. Please keep him Australia, we don't need him back.

Vicky Fletcher's avatar

Not so much comedic as documentary style Nick ... a "flying fuck" came to mind as Luxon is that idiom personified! Gawd he's an embarrassment every time he goes overseas - thus he's worse - he's a serial embarrassment :/ (and being "wealthy and sorted" why can't he buy shirts that fit his thick neck, the top button looks as strained as his jacket buttons always do)

Juliet Neill's avatar

Thank you for the satire, beautifully iced by the fabulous (note, carefully avoiding the word "iconic") Tim Minchin.

Summerhaze's avatar

This is wonderful, Nick. Why doesn't that man ever just put on a pair of sunglasses? That squint is so unattractive, makes him look shifty. And what about a jacket that fits?

Thanks for Tim Minchin. Brilliant musician, great song.

Diana Coleman's avatar

He is shifty. I’m waiting for that brave little jacket button to finally give up and pop off, the built up strain would create quite a bit of velocity so perhaps reporters interviewing should be given danger money and kneecap protectors.

Liz A's avatar

Brave little jacket button 🤭 love it 👏👏👏😂

Chrissie Cope's avatar

He is shifty, he 'barnes's his teeth I a smile better described as a grimace. Tim Minchin - love him!

Jo's avatar

Just brilliant all round 😃

Warren's avatar

Very well written Nick. One of his other happy places is Primary Schools. Probably because none of the younger school kids are going to call him " Dick Head".

Mac Stevenson's avatar

Oh Nick the warning was unnecessary because your post today was truly more documentary than comic relief. That expression if it wasn’t so funny I could cry comes to mind every time I see or hear Luxton.

Kate Hunt's avatar

I can’t/won’t hold Tim Minchin and Christopher Luxon in my head at the same. One of them is great.

Janie mcculloch's avatar

Omg he's just CRINGE!

Jane Cooper's avatar

I rember that Clive James described the backwards baseball cap as “the international sign of the idiot.”

Darien Fenton's avatar

Hah. A well written tragicomedy. Gawd I loathe the man soooooo much.

willy de wit's avatar

Amanda rose from her intermittent sleep, 135 AB crunchers in under 32 seconds…not half bad mrs prime minister..hard abs, flat tummy, if only Simeon would notice.. Simeon had a healthy ‘vegan ‘way of eating, now, if only Chris Bishop would notice.

Dan McKirdy's avatar

Douchebag Dave. Perfect description given that backward cap. Bet he will never wear it like that again. He looks like one of the Bowery Boys on a bad day.

In Glasgow they call that so rt ofacial expression ‘Glaikit’.

Neil MacLeod's avatar

Thanks for the satire (?) and Minchin - bright relief on a wet, grey day.