Comedy Festival: Arj Barker
What’s the worst thing that any comedy-goer fears when seeing stand-up. Being late. Being late to a person who can take you apart for being late. Well we were late, only five mins and to my relief Arj Barker wasn’t…
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Comedy Festival: Kate Dehnert – Shambalam
What happens when an asteroid hits Earth and a new species arises? It is something that I have pondered from time to time but I don’t think I have given it as much thought as Kate. In her Melbourne Comedy Festival…
Comedy Festival: Eli Matthewson – Faith
Near the beginning of Eli Matthewson’s ‘Faith’ we are informed of his concerns that people may get the wrong impression of his show through its poster. To those who make take the joke seriously, it is a show about losing…
Comedy Festival: Dinosaur Park – The Jurassic Parody
I love Jurassic Park. I love Jurassic Park as much as a pack of velociraptors likes to take down a team of camouflaged mercenaries one by one in the jungle. Being the heavyweight fan that I am, I had high…
Comedy Festival: WATSON – Life Education Van for Adults
Sometimes as a reviewer to a show there is a slight burden. The nagging knowledge that you are not just here to enjoy the show, but also to compare it in some way to others of its kind, to analyse,…
Comedy Festival: Chimp Cop Nights
Following up on the super successful ‘Chimp Cop’, the Melbourne-based comedy team Adam Knox, Ben Vernel, Rosie Vernel, and Timothy Clark are back on the beat and back on the stage with the wonderfully crazy ‘Chimp Cop Nights’. ‘Chimp Cop…
Comedy Festival: James Rankin – Be A Man
Ladies and gentlemen! Please welcome James Rankin in Be a Man! Says James Rankin. Or something to that effect anyway. A funny way to introduce a great show about his reflections on his own life and journey into manhood. Though…
Comedy Festival: David O’Doherty – Danger is Everywhere
You’ve got to be really clear when requesting shows, or else you may end up, as a 22 year old, sitting in David O’Doherty’s children’s comedy show with a crowd full of the target audience aged 5-11. Don’t worry…
Comedy Festival: The Big HOO-HAA! – Cliffhanger
Improv comedy is one of my all-time favourite things to go to. At university, I sometimes went up to two or three times a week during a brief heyday. So it’s with great authority that I can recommend The Big…
Comedy Festival: Aunty Donna
Rarely is the top search result for a comedic act a subreddit with some 1,711 subscribers. This doesn’t sound like a massive number but it would put the group’s subreddit about 500 users ahead of Melbourne University and they’re a…