Michael Workman: Nothing You Do Means Anything
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
15/04/2017 … We see a different Michael Workman at the festival this year.
2017 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sat 15 April 2017
Fri 14 April 2017
Steen Raskopoulos: The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Steen Raskopoulos isn’t going to mess with a winning formula.
Tom Walker: Bee Boo
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Oh, this is a gloriously, relentlessly, irrepressibly unhinged blast of off-the-wall insanity; a white-knuckle ride of manic enthusiasm enough to give prop comedy…
Angus Gordon: Sad Boy Comedy Hour
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … On leaving Angus Gordon’s debut show, we’re all handed a three-page, tightly-spaced academic tract on antagonism in art, citing Rirkri Tiravanija’s…
Alex Ward: Quiet
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Alex Ward is a newcomer whose inexperience – both of comedy and of life – are all-too apparent in her festival debut.
Rhys Nicholson: I'm Fine
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Rhys Nicholson is only 27 but exudes the confidence of a man who knows exactly who he is, from the exquisitely tailored appearance to the waspish superiority of…
Chelsea Zeller: High Achievers
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … With her festival debut, Chelsea Zeller proves herself to be a versatile, energetic and engaging comic actress, likeable even when her characters aren’t.
Thu 13 April 2017
© BBC Bucket: BBC Four
13/04/2017 … It would be easy to see Bucket almost as a companion piece to its BBC Four stablemate, Detectorists.