David Quirk: The Day I Ate Wombat
01/01/2012 … David Quirk is one of those comedians you can see develop festival by festival; each year returning with a show slightly different in approach than the one before.
2012 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 01 January 2012
Dave Thornton: I Wanna Be Bruce Lee
01/01/2012 … I’ve never been bored in quite such an entertaining way as spending an hour with Dave Thornton.
Dave O'Neil Is Happy To Be Out Of The House
01/01/2012 … It’s a atmosphere some comedians would kill to be able to generate, but sitting in Dave O’Neil’s audience is genuinely to feel like you’ve stumbled into…
The Crimson Goat Cabaret Club Super Show
01/01/2012 … Veterans of the Melbourne comedy scene, Elliot Goblet and Slim Whittle set up the monthly Crimson Goat Cabaret Club in Prahan last year in a bid to recreate the…
Chris North: The Bloke's Guide To Getting Married
01/01/2012 … To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Chris North and Nick Foran have dusted down an old script from that first year, to give us a…
Carl-Einar Hackner: Swedish Meatballs
01/01/2012 … More oddball than meatball, Sweden’s Carl-Einar Hackner is an antidote to the more cerebral comics on offer this festival, with a cavalcade of extravagantly stupid…
Capital Punishment 2011
01/01/2012 … This annual showcase of new Canberra-based comedians again produced the anticipated mixed bag; with Raw winner Dayne Rathbone providing the comic high spot on a…
The Bedroom Philosopher: Wit-Bix
01/01/2012 … Justin Heazlewood’s comic alter-ego has provided some great festival moments over the years, from his charmingly bonkers debut to the sublime Songs From The 86…