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So I wrote a poem about this scenario, and I played it for a while
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Tim Minchin: Back

So I wrote a poem about this scenario,and I played it for a while, and then I had to...

So I wrote a poem about this scenario,
and I played it for a while, and then I had to stop
playing it for, like, ten years because it got really awkward,
because I'm

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So I wrote a poem about this scenario, and I played it for a while,
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and then I had to stop playing it for, like, ten years
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because it got really awkward, because I'm...
Duration
9 seconds
Views
57
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:28
Uploaded
Mar 16, 2025
Genres
comedy
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Musical comedy spectacle featuring Minchin's eclectic repertoire, from old songs to new ones, and his trademark wit, virtuosity, self-mockery, and philosophical observations, filmed live at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire.
It's very, very embarrassing. But don't worry, I'm getting through it. - Tim Minchin: Back 00:05
It's very, very embarrassing. But don't worry, I&#...
And, I swear, half a dozen times since I moved back to Australia, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:11
And, I swear, half a dozen times since I moved back to Austr...
You make a living out of that, do ya?" - Tim Minchin: Back 00:08
You make a living out of that, do ya?"
But I don't, because it's illegal, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:06
But I don't, because it's illegal,
Anyway, what I'm trying to say for you youngsters - Tim Minchin: Back 00:09
Anyway, what I'm trying to say for you youngsters
But also because some of it was written before you were born, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:07
But also because some of it was written before you were born...
There's... at one point, yeah, the antagonist refers to a "chick" magazine, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:10
There's... at one point, yeah, the antagonist refers to...
So, erm, a magazine is like a, um... - Tim Minchin: Back 00:06
So, erm, a magazine is like a, um...
Er, how would you des... It's like a large-scale floppy, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:10
Er, how would you des... It's like a large-scale floppy...
Like a tightly-bound stack of very thin slices of tree that you entertain... - Tim Minchin: Back 00:08
Like a tightly-bound stack of very thin slices of tree that ...
Anyway, a girly magazine is what we used to do for porn. - Tim Minchin: Back 00:05
Anyway, a girly magazine is what we used to do for porn.
And I know you guys can't even imagine a world in which you don't have - Tim Minchin: Back 00:11
And I know you guys can't even imagine a world in which...
And we used to have to search for it in the sand dunes behind the drive-in, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:09
And we used to have to search for it in the sand dunes behin...
And you back your car up to it, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:12
And you back your car up to it,
Now I say it out loud, it doesn't seem likely. - Tim Minchin: Back 00:05
Now I say it out loud, it doesn't seem likely.
So this is a beat poem. For those interested, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:09
So this is a beat poem. For those interested,
I'm telling you that so you're more impressed if I succeed, - Tim Minchin: Back 00:08
I'm telling you that so you're more impressed if I...
♫ He looks at me intensely - Tim Minchin: Back 00:17
♫ He looks at me intensely
♫ a hand on the shoulder an avuncular wink - Tim Minchin: Back 00:44
♫ a hand on the shoulder an avuncular wink
♫ he leaves me to ponder his wisdom for a bit - Tim Minchin: Back 00:55
♫ he leaves me to ponder his wisdom for a bit