Wild Duck
01/01/2005 … Every comedian strives to get their audience to lose their inhibitions, to forget the artifice of performance and laugh with unbridled, unselfconscious joy.
2005 Archives
Sat 01 January 2005
Tim Minchin: Dark Side [Melbourne]
01/01/2005 … Tim Minchin is such a brilliant virtuoso pianist, it would be a pleasure to simply listen to him play for an hour.
Terri Psiakis is Available
01/01/2005 … Terri Psiakis has nothing to complain about.
Sue-Ann Post: Jesus Love Me: He Just Hates What I'm Doing
01/01/2005 … As a lesbian who tells dirty jokes, Sue-Ann Post reckons she’s not exactly going to be in God’s good books.
Steve Sheenan: A Step Too Far
01/01/2005 … This hardly qualifies as a show at all: barely 30 minutes short, tucked away in one of the festival’s more peripheral venues and attended by just five people;…
Rebel Wilson: Confessions Of An Exchange Stduent
01/01/2005 … Rebel Wilson is what Cartman would be were he older, Australian, female – and human.
Natives Getting Funny
01/01/2005 … For all the international and local acts who flock to the Melbourne comedy festival, there’s one sort of performer that’s very thin on the ground: indigenous…
Mike Wilmot [Melbourne 2005]
01/01/2005 … Mike Wilmot’s a straightforward, no-nonsense white-bread sort of guy.