Rose Matafeo is a legend of the New Zealand screen, her TV show Funny Girls one of the best skit shows around. Turns out, she’s equally as funny doing standup in 3D in front of you. Rose’s show ‘Sassy Best Friend’…
Cal Wilson is ready to spill her guts on stage for a paying audience — a wonderful premise. Cal was very excited at the lack of children in the front row, which provided the audience with just what tone to…
In Look What You Made Me Do, Demi Lardner doesn’t do things by halves, despite her first name. She jumps inside the fishbowl of the public gaze, taking us on a ride of mercurial wonder at life’s weirdest quirks. It’s…
Comedians seem to constantly gripe about their love lives, so would it be smart to date one? It seems unlikely, but the process could be fun to watch, especially if it’s even less real than reality TV and has a…
Across the corridor from the Blind Dating Show Spectacular in the Melbourne Town Hall is another TV-inspired show, the much more intellectual Late Night Letters and Numbers. The Comedy Festival version of this SBS classic included two mainstays of the…
The Big HOO-HAA! is a fast, boisterous improv collective. Two teams of three, called the Hearts and the Bones, compete to entertain us in a number of games. It is up to us, the audience, to steer the course of…
Kuah Jenhan is back at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival with his part stand-up, part storytelling show titled Perfect Stranger. Jenhan, whose tag line is ‘self deprecation is my jam yo’ is in Australia for the fourth time and…
There’s nothing like seeing a show in the Melbourne Town Hall. Not only is it the home base for The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, but there’s a certain excitement that runs through the air in the main hall for shows…
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has a particular highlight every year, and that is to see what wonderful installment of Rama Nicholas’ amazing multi-character work awaits adoring fans and sensible festival-goers who are in the know. This year, the central…
Dave O’Neil has been a fixture of the Aussie comedy scene for longer than I dare remember, with numerous appearances on TV and radio as well as live shows. His latest venture, The Summer of ’82, takes us back to…