Programme announced

The line-up has been announced for next year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with a number of British-based comics heading down under.

They include: 

• Amy Gledhill, with her 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show  Make Me Look Fit On The Poster.
• Jin Hao Li, with his best newcomer show, Swimming In A Submarine  
• Ahir Shah, winner of the 2023  Edinburgh Comedy Award
• Sara Pascoe, with her new show I Am A Strange Gloop, ahead of her UK tour
• Ruby Wax presenting her show I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was, based on her best-selling memoir about mental health
• Mark Watson, who is a regular visitor to the Australian festival circus,
• Chloe Petts with her sophomore show How You See Me, How You Don’t
• Tech wizards Foxdog Studios with their Robo Bingom and Mat Ewins with his multimedia extravaganza, Ewins Some You Lose Some
• Scottish stand-up Connor Burns with his show 1994, and Danish-born Sofie Hagen with Banglord.

There are also shorter runs for Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Kemah Bob, Rachel Fairburn Josh Berry and Kai Humphries 

Other global acts include Indians Rahul Subramanian, and Urooj Ashfaq, Americans Charlene Kaye, Arj Barke and , Iliza Shlesinger and South African Schalk Bezuidenhout.

Meanwhile, Australian comedians include Geraldine Hickey, Wil Anderson, Lou Wall, Sammy J,  Zoë Coombs Marr, Tommy Little, Michelle Brasier, and Nazeem Hussain

Melbourne International Comedy Festival runs from March 26 to April 20 and full details are available on its website.

Published: 9 Dec 2024