A Welshman, a Scotsman and an Englishman walked into a theatre. It sounds like the start of a joke but, if the theatre is the beautiful Forum in Melbourne and the men are Lloyd Langford, Stuart Mitchell and Greg Burns,…
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival can be daunting. 550 shows, tons of talent, one month long, where do you start? We all, or maybe it’s just me, have a deep seated fear of being stuck in a cringe-worthy comedy show….
Gillian English is bold, brassy and will find out a coward or patsy in seconds with her bullet-stare in her stand up show A Bitter Shrew. The successful Canadian comedian unleashes her killer lines like a tornado. Dating, the female…
With the rise in life coaches and self-help seminars, Chelsea Zeller takes the opportunity to make a mockery of this industry in her one-woman show, High Achievers. Zeller shows her ability to step into a variety of characters as the…
The Butterfly Club hosts some of the best acts dancing the line between comedy and cabaret, and this MICF, Alice Tovey’s Mansplaining is one of the jewels in the festival’s belt. Accompanied by Ned Dixon on piano, Alice begins the show…
Hate doctors? Hate waiting rooms’ out-of-date magazines? The interminable wait-times? You’re not alone. Genuine GP Dr. Ahmed Kazmi, in his show Doctor In The House, is ready to cure you of the ill will you bear towards the medical profession….
Canadian comedic songstress Shirley Gnome is back on Aussie shores for this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In her 2017 offering, Taking It Up The Notch, Gnome proves why Canada’s Edmonton Journal has branded her ‘the Queen troubadour of intelligent…
Dara O’Briain has stepped onto Australian shores for the first time in 16 years, and Australia is all the better for his being here. The audience at Hamer Hall very quickly learned that you need a minimum of two espressos to keep up with Dara’s fast-paced comedy (‘I’m…
Solo shows are a mammoth task to undertake, especially if the concept involves multiple characters and a strong sense of narration and connectivity. Ben Russell, once again, shows his expertise in The Pilot, a show bringing together the exploits, memories,…
Tom Walker has had a whirlwind twelve months, winning Best Newcomer at last year’s Comedy Festival, joining the cast for the Australian version of Whose Line is it Anyway?, and powering through international festivals. This year, Bee Boo, in homage…