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;…
2005 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sat 01 January 2005
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.
Mr Methane: Thunderbum Is Go
01/01/2005 … Alongside your Bill Baileys, Ross Nobles and Daniel Kitsons, there’s another, less-celebrated act proudly flying the flag for Britain here in Melbourne: Mr Methane.
Lawrence Leung & Andrew McClelland's Somewhat Secret Secret Society Show
01/01/2005 … They are everywhere; clandestine societies with their closed memberships, furtive gestures and hidden agendas of world domination, subversion or plain old sex and…
Late Nite Birdmann
01/01/2005 … You know from the very start that Birdmann is aiming for a classy, sophisticated brand of comedy.
Justin Kennedy: I'm With Stupid
01/01/2005 … Justin Kennedy is something of a comedy livewire: animated and physical, he brings an engaging vibrancy to his stand-up.