Tag: Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Comedy Festival: Zanzoop – Feeble Minds

Zanzoop is an explosion of sporadic charming nonsense and you must see it. ‘It’s Dr Phil on ketamine, it’s stupid but it will change everything’. This is the tagline of the show and it’s frankly completely accurate. The show is delivered from…

Comedy Festival: Faulty Towers The Dining Experience

Have you ever been to a restaurant where the whole night went horribly wrong? That is the premise of the Faulty Towers Dining Experience, a Melbourne Comedy Festival show based on the British hit sitcom Fawlty Towers. There wasn’t any waldorf…

Comedy Festival: Frank Woodley – Extra Ordinary

Just when you think summer is gone and mid March brings those cold nights in, the Comedy Festival guide is released and it’s all smiles again. For my first show of the season, it’s Frank Woodley at the Melbourne Town…

Comedy Festival: Magic Steven – I’m Proud of You

It was after a long day that we went to see Magic Steven‘s ‘I’m Proud of You’.  The Lawler of Southbank Theatre was well attended, except the front row. My partner, not afraid of the front row, suggested we sit there. …

Comedy Festival: Diana Nguyen – Naked

Diana Nguyen’s ‘Naked‘ is a little gem of a show. Perfect for an after work pick-me-up, the 5.30pm start gives you just enough time to get out of work, get to The Butterfly Club, get your glass of SSB, and get…

Comedy Festival: Jen Carnovale – Wronger Than You

Jen Carnovale probably wanted to talk about all the successes in her life, but instead brings us her show, ‘Wronger than You’, in which she regales us with her failed attempts to be an adult. Well, not totally failed, but…

Comedy Festival: Rose Callaghan – Rose Before Hoes

Rose Callaghan returns with a solo show this year, ‘Rose Before Hoes’.  Those who are not familiar with her humourous take on her place in world should very well want to get around to seeing her at this year’s festival. Callaghan…

Comedy Festival: 3 States of Comedy – Reinstated

‘3 States of Comedy’ makes a triumphant return this year as ‘Reinstated’. For those unacquainted with the premise of this newly traditional multi-bill show, three comedians, generally with mixed performance styles, battle it out with roughly twenty minute sets while representing…

Comedy Festival: Paul Culliver – The Honeypot

Politics, gender equality, and racial issues are bold premises to set your solo comedy show alight with, yet Paul Culliver adeptly handles and weaves his way through such material in a sharp-minded manner with his current show ‘The Honeypot’. Coming…

Comedy Festival: The Simpsons Taught Me Everything I Know

The headline kind of says it all! Simpsons lovers across Melbourne rejoiced at the chance to experience Yianni Agisilaou’s ode to one of the greatest TV series of all time, ‘The Simpsons Taught Me Everything I Know’. A series that,…