MICF: Meg Jäger: Renaissance Woman
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2025 … Once a private school girl, always a private school girl… In her solo festival debut, former Raw Comedy finalist Meg Jäger exudes a faux sense…
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Fri 11 April 2025
MICF: The Burton Brothers: Fortune Seekers
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2025 … The Burton Brothers were one of the finds of last year’s Melbourne comedy festival, with their distinctive, tightly scripted show set entirely in 1925.
MICF: Abby Howells: Welcome To My Dream
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2025 … With a boost from appearing on the latest season of Taskmaster NZ, Abby Howells had been enjoying a higher profile in the past few months.
Thu 10 April 2025
MICF: Zach Ruane & Alexei Toliopoulos: Refused Classification
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
10/04/2025 … As a mash-up of over-the-top sketch comedy, documentary narrative and verbatim theatre, even creators Zach Ruane and Alexei Toliopoulos acknowledge that Refused…
MICF: Garry Starr: Monkeys Everywhere
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
10/04/2025 … In the guise of his playful alter-ego Garry Elizabeth Starr, Damien Warren-Smith is a fabulous kids’ entertainer, engaging the youngsters with his mucking…
MICF: Emma Holland: Don't Touch My Trinkets
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
10/04/2025 … You could read Emma Holland’s Don’t Touch My Trinkets as a thoughtful treatise about ethics and exploitation in art, as encapsulated by a landmark court…
MICF: Ray O'Leary: Laughter? I Hardly Know Her!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
10/04/2025 … Ray O’Leary isn’t the first comedian to tell of getting an unsolicited diagnosis of n neurological condition from some rando in the street.
Wed 09 April 2025
MICF: Kate Dolan: The Critic
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
09/04/2025 … That this show stars with Kate Dolan emerging from the back row with a large potted shrub on her head speaks volumes about what a silly hour she has in store.