2014 Archives
Mon 14 April 2014
RAW Comedy National Grand Final 2014
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
14/04/2014 … The most notable aspect of the Raw comedy final is how at ease most of the new comics appear, despite their relative inexperience.
Sun 13 April 2014
Khaled Khalafalla: Fresh
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
13/04/2014 … ‘I hope to inspire more people to listen to each other,’ Khaled Khalafalla pretentiously proclaims amid this mess of petulant preaching and crude racial gags.
Tim Minchin to direct Hollywood animation
Larrakins is set in Aussie outback
13/04/2014 … Tim Minchin is to direct his first Hollywood movie – a big-budget Hollywood animation for the Dreamworks studio.
Fiona O’Loughlin: My Brilliant Career
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
13/04/2014 … Fiona O’Loughlin’s latest show is, like all her shows before this, a collection of confessional anecdotes from her chequered life and career in which she inevitably…
Dilruk Jayasinha Is Kind Of A Big Dil
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
13/04/2014 … ‘I have a kind face,’ 29-year-old Dilruk Jayasinha tells his audience, accurately, at the head of his upbeat debut show which does nothing to challenge the…
© Patty Mooney, Crystal Pyramid Productions 'Women are funny, but I have a problem with them'
Jerry Lewis shares his views on female comics
13/04/2014 … Jerry Lewis has finally conceded that women can be funny.