Stand Up
"...I would like to give mention to an extraordinary warm up comedian named Liz Carr. Liz may not be too familiar to Australian audiences mainly due to the fact that this is actually her first outing from the UK. Also from the information I can gather this performance was a last minute affair so unfortunately there may not be much opportunity of seeing her perform this side of the pond in the foreseeable future.
She does however have a website: www.lizcarr.co.uk but before clicking onto it I must pre-warn you - Liz is a wheelchair bound Lesbian comedian with a no hold bars approach to comedy so if you are easily offended and struggle to see the funny side of minority types like herself this may not be your thing. If on the other hand you are looking for a remarkable comedic talent with more original material than Armani, get clicking!"
Trevor Gager ArtsHub, reviewing Liz Carr's warm-up set for Mr & Mrs Crapp at Melbourne International Comedy Festival
"Liz Carr has the ability to make you feel more uncomfortable in your seat than anything except a bad dose of cystitis. And she is ruthless. Just as I was thinking to myself that it is hard to consider her as a 'disabled' comic, she rips into the smug stupidity of people who say to her "I don't see you as disabled." OK, that may be true, she does look a bit like an albino Twiglet in a Michael Jackson wig, and she travels in a wheelchair that looks like it needs an HGV licence to drive, but when she spits out a gag you laugh and when she kicks your ass it hurts. And that makes her, as a comic, a deal more able than many others (names available on request). Carr's material is personal. Sometimes very personal. There are, you will discover, a lot of
hormonal urges packed into that tiny body (dressed by Mothercare, fuelled by Lambrini). She is also, frequently, dark and dangerous. This is hardcore comedy - onstage Carr is somewhere between Phylis Diller and Davros. The audience participation in her shows is about as close to the bone as it gets without oozing marrow. You really should see her. Just be careful about how you compliment her."
Kate Copstick
“Supremely funny, twisted and edgy”
Time Out
"Feisty wheelchair user LIz Carr packs a considerable comic punch."
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard
“She soon brings the house down with a cocktail of caustic observational gags.”
Mary O'Hara, The Guardian
"Liz's act did start out well but again deteriorated into foul mouthed nonsense and one or two really sick comments."
Manchester Coalition magazine
"Liz Carr takes a particularly inspired dark humour approach to her set, unsettling and challenging comfy ideas and ignorant notions about disability by shooting one liners Bill Hicks would've been proud of."
notbbc.co.uk review of Four on the Floor show at Edinburgh Fringe
“It's hard to pick out a star, but for me Liz Carr was the real star in the making. Coming on in a wheelchair, she did more for disability rights than the Paralympics and Christopher Reeve put together.”
Review of Sheila's Wheels Funny Women in Latest 7 (May 2006)
“Wheelchair-user Liz Carr has highly original material and delivered the best line of the night: ‘Disabled is the new black.’”
The Stage
“Next up was Liz Carr, a wheelchair user whose brand of comedy is edgy and almost uncomfortable. She talks of ‘spazzing up’ and delivers some filthy material that makes no secret of the fact disabled people are as sexually motivated as the rest of us. Some comedy was, perhaps, sacrificed for point-making, but the laughs still came solidly from this honest, uncompromising set.”
Chortle 4 star review of Abnormally Funny People at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005
"Liz Carr's humour is right on the edge and fabulously black.”
The Scotsman
“Liz Carr is the dark and dangerous heart of the Abs, and improves with every performance. Tonight she is smooth, and bristling with confidence, with each gag narrated in her inimitable gobby, cynical style. There are no sacred cows here, no impairment is safe, and no crip scenario that cannot be held up for examination and shared laughter.”
Penny Pepper reviewing Abnormally Funny People for DAIL
“Liz Carr is a stand-up who can barely stand up, so from her motorised wheelchair delivers a set revolving around her disability and reactions to it – an entirely understandable obsession. She’s got bags of attitude – provocatively referring to herself as a ‘crip’, for instance – and a confidence in her delivery, even if the quality of the material is variable. But, to put it bluntly, she’s got one hell of an angle, and the right approach to talking about it. Compared to that, polishing the gags should only be a matter of time.”
