Fiona O'Loughlin: My Brilliant Career
14/04/2014 … 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…
2014 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
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.
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…
Sat 12 April 2014
Lawrence Mooney Is A Stupid Liar
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
12/04/2014 … Comedy’s oldest tradition is to mock the human body; that for all the civilisation and decorum we present to the world, we are base creatures who shit and fart…
Matt Okine: Happiness Not Included
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
12/04/2014 … When he bursts on to the stage, Matt Okine speaks with a gushing enthusiasm that would make a neuro-linguistic programmer happy.
David Quirk: Career, Suicide
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
12/04/2014 … David Quirk’s new show underlines his status as a mesmerising storyteller.