Review – Hannah Gadsby: Donkey
Hannah Gadsby is brave, raw and someone you feel like you know already. Her new hour of stand-up, ‘Donkey’, is uproarious, quick, sometimes tangential and a total product of how her mind works.
Category: Comedy
Review – Tom Gleeson
His act smoothly progressed through talking to the audience and engaging them into his comedy, to a full blown stand-up routine. Perfectly integrated, perfectly sound comedy.
Review – Tommy Little: Enter the Weapon
There’s a reason he’s all over our radios, TV screens and now, even our coffee mugs. Whether you’re a fan already or seeing him for the first time, it’s completely irrelevant. Little just knows how to reel the audience in.
Review – Best of the Edinburgh Fest
What is it about painful self-reflection that makes for such good comedy? Best of the Fest left the Melbournian audience at The Forum Tuesday night exposed naked and laughing at themselves in the mirror.
Review – Ronny Chieng: You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About
If you want an easy show to just sit down and relax, then watch Ronny Chieng run around the stage yelling at stupid people, you won’t be disappointed.
Review – An Evening with Sammy J and Randy
Overall the balance between comedy, music, puppetry, audience participation, planning and chaos results in what could easily be my favourite show of the festival.
Review – Urzila Carlson: Poise Control
Carlson is a woman after my own heart. She’s obsessed with good coffee, unapologetically fond of pie, and armed with a determination to stay warm and friendly in the face of an endless barrage of dickheads.
Review – Fiona O’Loughlin: The One Where She Left Her Husband and Moved to Melbourne!
Returning to the Comedy Festival, this latest show from the self-proclaimed “Queen of Australian comedy” doesn’t raise the bar, but then again it doesn’t have to.
Review – Claire Hooper: School Camp
I left not only with my sides satisfyingly split but with my 10 year old self skipping after me feeling comforted, lighter and a little more normal.
Review – Best of Edinburgh Comedy
With an outdoor balmy pub balcony setting, and a relaxed room filled with those hungering for some after work Scottish humor, there’s not an awful lot that can wrong. Or right, if you had to suffer through an evening’s lineup that was on the whole rather unimpressive.
Review – Miss Behave’s Gameshow
If you’re keen for a great night of dancing to the demise of humanity then this is the show for you!
Review – Luisa Omielan – What Would Beyonce Do?
Girl got game. Omielan is one brave lady. Not only is she dancing solo on stage as the audience enters (no mean feat), she’s also unafraid to tackle the big issues.
Review – Matt Okine
Serving as a poster boy for every twenty-something that is now ‘rich’ enough for such lavish luxuries as paying rent and sourdough bread, Matt Okine skillfully manages to take some of the more boring elements of everyday life and make them genuinely really funny.
Review – Bec Hill in… Ellipsis
The tin can phone starts buzzing – the ringtone Loser by Beck – and our Bec answers, only to find her self-doubt loudly berating her on the other end.
