Greg Dixon’s Another kind of politics: A comedy revue

Where: Palmerston North Convention Centre, last Sunday

Rating out of 5: *****

Is he the saviour of New Zealand or the saviour of New Zealand comedy?

The country’s most famous insult comic Winston Peters proved he’s definitely still both in a bravura performance at a fit-to-burst Palmerston North Convention Centre last Sunday.

In a freewheeling hour of stand-up, the legendary funnyman wowed an audience of his oldest and most loyal fans with some of his classic routines — PC gone mad, immigration gone mad, the media gone mad — while showing he was unafraid to court controversy with new Nazi and zombie-based material.

Arriving on stage to anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping — it really had the pensioners toe-tapping — Winston wasted no time in delivering a comedy riot with his hilarious attack on the “imploding” Green party.

Raising a laugh about the suspension of “the latest one with the moko on her chin” — Green MP Darleen Tana — he brought the house down with his bang-on observation that the wet, social justice warriors in the Greens “couldn’t run a school tuck shop”. Classic!

Calling out last year’s massive jump in new immigrants to this great country, he skewered the libtards, saying that “anyone who asks questions about an unplanned immigration policy is instantly called something they can’t even spell — he’s called xenophobic. No, we’re not xenophobic, we’re just not zombies.” Classic!

Referencing his years as a lawyer before going into political comedy, he drew chuckles by observing that his “problem way back then was I thought I could change the world if I went into politics — it’s just taking a bit longer”. Classic!