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The New York Times and New York Magazine profile Reggie Watts
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The world only needs, and perhaps can only handle one Reggie Watts at a time. But thank God we’ve got the one.
-The Bureau Chiefs
"With his huge, wobbling Afro, idiosyncratic voices and accents, and looped sound effects, Watts got the crowd roaring with more laughter than any other guest, including O'Brien's trusty foil Andy Richter"
– MTV.com
"Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else."
– Brian Eno
"Reggie Watts has the perfect off-beat comedy to open for Coco."
– TV Guide
"Reggie Watts is awesome… His video for "Fuck Shit Stack" was the most hilarious send up of hip hop culture I’ve seen in a while."
– San Francisco Bay Guardian
"…one of the most talked-about comics in the alt-comedy scene."
– Media Elites
"Reggie Watts, a surreal comic with a knack for accents, sound effects and songs about big purses... Perfect for Coco's crowd."
– Edmonton Journal
"…brilliant, like a completely off-the-wall combo of Bobby McFerrin and Sacha Baron Cohen."
– Jam Entertainment
"Artistically, the best laughs came from the opener, Reggie Watts, who’s played the local comedy festival twice. I was jealous of those seeing him for the first time. That moment of slack-jawed wonder as you try to figure out the disturbed musical genius is something you never forget."
- Vancouver Straight
"…the real show stopper was the always phenomenal beat-boxer and absurdist comedian Reggie Watts."
– The Art Newspaper
"Sharp, wry and elusive … Reggie moves seamlessly from skits to songs to off- kilter stand-up, while talking in a subway train full of accents."
– New York Times
"Watts is easily the most original act I've seen in a long time. Crowned by a wasp's nest of an Afro and adopting a revolving mélange of characters, the comedian/musician babbles, fumbles, raps, and croons, all to dizzying and dazzling effect. Probably best known for his song "Fuck Shit Stack," Watts mixes his beats live and layers them with hilarious wordplay. Over the course of my week in Montreal, his was, jazz-hands down, the name I most often heard being bandied about as one to watch."
– Boston Phoenix
"One of the biggest hits in Montreal was Reggie Watts, who layers music beats with hilarious wordplay."
– Boston Phoenix
"He escapes categorization; his show comprises offbeat comedy, social satire, physical theatre, beat boxing and song, though not enough to actually be any of those things."
– Time Out Sydney
"I am speechless. Watts is, in the best sense, unpredictable and indescribable – the sell out audience loved it."
-Chortle.com
"With his set consisting of bizarre hip hop parodies drenched in off-the-wall musical choices and punctuated by almost nonsensical, yet hilarious anecdotes, Reggie endeavors to leave his audience laughing and absolutely confused."
-Rave Magazine
"The cult hit of the festival."
-Bruce Dessau, Fest Buzz
"An experience I would highly recommend. Very unique and individual. A very talented man. Extreme, hilarious and very entertaining."
-Three Weeks
"If you’re looking for a fresh comic voice, Watts certainly carries a lasting charge of comic electricity. ****"
-Metro
"Reggie Watts: Supercomedian. Faster than a speeding punchline. More powerful than a steaming latte. Able to leap tall non-sequiturs in a single bound. Well, maybe he won’t single-handedly save us from cliche-slinging comics, but he’s sure funny and marvelously unpredictable"
-The Seattle Times
"Amazing and unlike anything you have ever seen. Unless you have seen a comedic stream of conscious operatic beat-boxing marvel. Then it's like that."
-Eugene Mirman
"Reggie Watts just blew everyone's minds as usual. Seriously, if you haven't seen this guy, make it a point to do so."
-Aziz Ansari
"These are people who are going places.
It's not hard to picture an artist like New York-based improviser, musician, and comedian Reggie Watts having a Zach Galifianakis-style breakout in the coming year."
-Austin Decider
"Evading capture or definition, Reggie Watts is the spellbinding vocal artist whose improvised songs delight audiences internationally."
-Muxtape
"Reggie Watts is the man. He’s a one man comedy/ beat box phenomenon"
-NY Press
"Watts, with his cloud of black hair and surprisingly beautiful voice, is loads of fun to watch."
-Variety
"Seattle-based Watts' Dadaist standup show may have been the most nakedly entertaining entry in the 2009 festival. Refreshingly free of the tired polemics that frequently stand in for courage, "Transition" reps the kind of thing Under the Radar does so well: It brings to an established New York venue a performer without much of a cultural footprint in the legit world."
-Variety
"Reggie Watts began his career as a singer in various bands in the early 1990s. Then he started being himself. Crazy. Absurd. And the people laughed. They're still laughing."
-Esquire, Best & Brightest: New Geniuses Whose Ideas Will Change The World
"One man. One loop station. Over ten octaves of vocal agility. Wow."
-My Vision TV
"Reggie Watts’ resume is as big as his afro: musician, comedian, social commentator, actor, performer. He’s got a vocal range of ten octaves, 300 different characters up his sleeve and a whole lot of training behind a piano."
-Time Out Sydney
"Sublimely silly, and sometimes quite simply sublime…Reggie Watts has been likened to Peter Sellers but his vocal and musical prowess is in a different league."
-Telegraph
"If you haven't heard of Reggie Watts yet, it's about time you did some research…Surely this act will fill stadiums if enough people got wind of it."
-London Evening Standard
"There's no one out there like Reggie Watts. Exploiting a jaw-dropping vocal range, Reggie covers everything from ancient history and racism to pop-culture, in a heady mix of improvised music, comedy and social insight. This guy has to be seen to be believed. Truly awesome!"
- Time Out London
"He's like the Jimi Hendrix of comedy, from some future world where words fly almost as fast as thoughts and all of us are just characters in some genius's mad mash-up... it's a sign of his power as a performer that no matter who else is on the bill... Watts always closes the show. Like James Brown or Hendrix himself in the music world, no one wants to follow him"
-The Huffington Post
"Expect your mind to be blown by the energetic, category-defying beat-boxing-musical-comedy rap of Watts, one of the most interesting and talented performers in New York's alt scene."
-Time Out NY
WINNER of the ANDY KAUFMAN AWARD 2006
WINNER of the MALCOLM HARDEE AWARD 2005
WINNER of the SEATTLE MAYOR’S ARTS AWARD 2006
WINNER of the CREATIVE CAPITOL GRANT for the PERFORMING ARTS 2009
WINNER of the ECNY AWARD for BEST MUSICAL COMEDY ACT 2009
WINNER of the ARGUS ANGEL AWARD IN RECOGNITION OF ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE 2010
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