Stephen K. Amos – Laughter Is My Agenda
He’s the bitchy, fabulous man we all wish we had as a best mate – a rare combination of cultured, low-brow, ridiculous and the terribly sublime.
Category: Melb Int Comedy Festival
Lindi Jane – Chicken Pox!
Lindi Jane and her troop of peculiar puppet friends make for a superb evening of entertainment at Wonderland Fun Park on the Docklands. In keeping with the best of children entertainment, the show is a jam-packed mix of laughs and educational material as Snap’s Kakadu Club teach their young audience right from wrong.
Phi and Me Too
Dealing with language barriers, family expectations and cultural differences, Phi appears to be a typical Vietnamese boy who studies hard to make his mother proud, but deep down inside all Phi ever wanted in life was to be a superstar.
Tom Ballad – Doing Stuff
Adventures of the offensive and hilarious are where Ballard rules and Doing Stuff hits the high notes.
Michael Workman – Mercy
Artistry and subtle skill abound in Mercy, an original and crafted piece of comedy.
Hannah Gadsby – Hannah Wants A Wife
Gadsby is deliriously funny and delivers a thrilling, heady mix of sarcasm, intelligence and insight.
Skills in Time – Got Dem Big City Dreams
Got Dem Big City Dreams has the air of a well produced high school sketch comedy. It’s a play about three young lads from the bush with three different big city dreams.
Dave Callan – The Graveyard Shift
DAVE Callan delivers an epic retrospective of his radio career working the late night graveyard shift at Triple J.
Luke Heggie – Master of None
As a former Raw Comedy champ, I was keen to see something a bit removed from what I’ve come to expect from other emerging comics. Heggie has an air of weirdness about him: he talks like he’s missing a few screws and then surprises the audience with his unusual intelligence.
Wanda Sykes
From the moment Sykes took the stage she had the audience under her slightly self-deprecating spell, stalking the stage with her instantly recognisable afro.
Girls Night
ONLY on Girls Night would you find yourself cackling over waxing salons, swinging babies, ukulele and Cindy Lauper. With Cath Styles hosting the all-lady event over the Comedy Festival season, this is a show that not only compliments your evening, but also asks you life questions: Kids vs the iPhone.
Chris KP – Pre-Coital: The Science of Dating
A slick production that was familiar and eye-opening at the same time, this is the show to see if you want to take something away with you. Stay away if you want to switch off your brain and sit through an hour of fart, dick and drunk jokes.
Best of Comedy Malaysia – Featuring Harith Iskander
MALAYSIANS are not internationally famous for their stand-up comedians. As we waited it became clear that 99% of the audience (who were mainly Malaysian) were getting seriously excited about seeing their local legends performing in Australia.
Mike Wilmot
Righteously funny from the get-go, Wilmot strolls down the aisle to the stage, three beers in hand. He prefaces the evening by letting us know this isn’t a play, we will not learn anything, we will merely witness the breaking down of a middle-aged man.
