MICF: Ivan Aristeguieta - Matador
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2018 … As a child, Ivan Aristeguieta was a huge fan of bullfighting, a spectacle built around the concept of ‘duende’, the unique artistry drawn from the soul…
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Mon 02 April 2018
MICF: Tess Waters - Volcano
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2018 … Tessa Waters acknowledges that her role is to be the ‘biggest dickhead in the room’, and joyously embraces that task with her daft clowning – a…
MICF: Rod Quantock: Happy Birthday To Me
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2018 … This is a birthday show not for Rod Quantock himself, but his career.
MICF: Helen Bidou - Enter The Spinnaker Lounge
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2018 … Anne Edmonds cements her well-earned reputation as Australia’s queen of the grotesque in this ribald and beguilingly sloppy late-night showcase for her unhinged…
MICF: Andy Balloch - My Comedy Festival Show
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2018 … I’ll wager Andy Balloch saw Hannah Gadsby’s multi-award-winning show Nanette last year, in which she frequently dropped the comedy to make a deeply sincere…
Sun 01 April 2018
MICF: Sean Patton - Number One
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
01/04/2018 … Sean Patton’s show gets off to a modest start, a few local observations and comments on how badly imitated the Australian accent is.
MICF: Demi Lardner – I Love Skeleton
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
01/04/2018 … This wild, intense hurtle through the whizz-bang mind of Demi Lardner gives ‘zany’ a good name.
MICF: Joseph Green – Dreamer Examines His Pillow
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
01/04/2018 … It could certainly be seen as slightly pretentious to appropriate the title of an obscure play for your comedy festival show.