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…
Nothing drives home Melbourne’s food and wine obsession quite like sitting down to lunch with 1700 keen fellow diners, something I was lucky enough to experience this year for Bank of Melbourne’s 25th annual World’s Longest Lunch. The event is…
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…
These are a few of my favourite things: glitter, sequins, musicals, and comprehensive sex education and knowledge of human anatomy. Glittery Clittery is a sparkly clever extravaganza, winding all of these into one late-night party/comedy show. The Fringe Wives Club,…
A flash of thrilling masculinity tied up in an age of terror wowed the opening night audience in famed UK choreographer Matthew Bourne, and New Adventures & Re:Bourne’s, reinvention of the literary classic, Lord Of The Flies. A world first,…
Lawrence Mooney in Like Literally takes to the stage cheerfully and confidently, like a comedian who has clearly done his 10,000 hours. One of my favourite Australian comedians, I would choose him if I was selecting an Australian ‘best of’ squad….