Lewis Garnham Hit A Pigeon With His Bike
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Cycling into a pigeon isn’t the worst of Lewis Garnham’s embarrassing stories, but it’s the easiest to picture in a slightly unwieldy show title.
2023 Archives
Fri 21 April 2023
Prue Blake: Unfriended
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Many conversational comedians give the impression they want to be your friend.
Daisy Webb: Joy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Daisy Webb’s factory setting is ‘silly’, as displayed when she giggles coyly at some of her dafter punchlines: ’No, that’s stupid!’ On…
Nick Schuller: FIrebrand
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Deadpan’s one thing, but Nick Schuller is lifeless to the point of monotone.
Ange Lavoipierre: Your Mother Chucks Rocks And Shells
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Ange Lavoipierre’s reconstruction of insomnia is artfully created, but is ultimately as frustrating as the real thing as her absurd train of thought becomes…
Thu 20 April 2023
Guy Williams: Comedy Plus Time Equals Tragedy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
20/04/2023 … ‘You suck shit,’ Guy Williams tells his audience.
Wed 19 April 2023
Glee Club faces 'union-bashing' claims
Venue denies ex-employee's charges of 'victimisation'
19/04/2023 … The Glee comedy club is at the centre of a dispute about workers’ rights after being accused of blocking its staff's attempts to unionise.
A Brush With Comedy
Review of the Sky Arts documentary featuring Vic Reeves and others
19/04/2023 … Simon Munnery has a great stand-up routine taking issue with a well-meaning critic who described his comedy as ‘the closest thing to art’, as if the…