Tag: comedy

Comedy Festival: A Dinner To Die For

Last Saturday, December 1928, Lord Quiten Daventry hosted his annual party bash. Not knowing him in person, I had a business proposition to make – that he sell his manor house so I, the baron Gerhaard Haase, Swedish property tycoon,…

Comedy Festival: 30th Birthday Tour & Panel Discussion

The 30th Birthday activities are well hidden in the programme. I only found out in time for last weekend’s serve! Each Sunday afternoon, Rod Quantock gives a tour of the 30th anniversary exhibition, followed by a live panel discussion hosted by Cal Wilson….

Comedy Festival: Tom Gleeson – Great

Going to Tom Gleeson at the comedy festival is becoming a bit of a tradition for me, in fact Tom had the honour of taking my comedic virginity at last year’s festival. Last year I saw him in a back…

Comedy Festival: Corey White – The Cane Toad Effect

Corey White is an engrossing storyteller and comedian, and if you’re looking for a commanding powerful show, filled with honest engaging admissions and heartfelt conclusions, then ‘The Cane Toad Effect’ is a show that needs to be seen before it…

Comedy Festival: Jan Van de Stool – I Get the Music in You

Appropriately hidden away in what my plus one remarked as looking very much like a high-school, famous musical therapist Jan Van de Stool (played by award winning Australian musical comedian Queenie Van de Zandt) runs her beginner workshop for the…

Comedy Festival: Paul Foot

Paul Foot is his own league of comedy. I was unfamiliar with Foot’s comedy, but after years of seeing his name and face floating around with the best of the best, I decided to take my diehard fan friend and…

Comedy Festival: Reuben Kaye – Plugged!

I first saw Reuben Kaye perform at Butterfly Club about three years ago when I relocated from London to Melbourne. It was a bittersweet time, I was homesick for London but happy to have found a home in the wonderful…

Comedy Festival: Kyle Kinane – Terrestrial Woes

The yellow shirted comedy festival crew ushered a huge crowd into one of the largest rooms at Roxanne on a chilly Tuesday night. The crowd shuffled in mirthlessly but eventually settled in for one of the top international billings of…