Damien Power: Not So Funny Now Is it?
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
12/04/2024 … ‘2023 was a great year for Damien Power,’ trills the blurb for his latest solo show, boasting several career successes.
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Prue Blake: Concrete Pigs
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
12/04/2024 … Prue Blake’s day job is as a town planner… which could be a worrying sign for the future of Australia’s cities, given how messily she’s…
Thu 11 April 2024
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Review of Richard Gadd's story of stalking, now on Netflix
11/04/2024 … It starts with a small act of kindness, when a sympathetic young barman offers a free cup of tea to a teary middle-aged woman who enters his pub.
Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (Baptism)
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2024 … Lara Ricote did such a good job with her 2022 debut, GRL/LATNX/DEF, that she won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for best newcomer.
Ray O'Leary: Your Laughter Is Just Making Me Stronger
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2024 … A best newcomer nominee at last year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, New Zealand’s Ray O’Leary takes a forensic approach to his comedy.
Lou Wall: The Bisexual's Lament
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2024 … A digital native comedian in all the best ways, Lou Wall offers a manic attention-deficit mashup of live stand-up and unhinged AV content, unpacking a tough personal…
Dan Rath: Pariah Carey
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2024 … Has one of Australia’s grubbiest loser comics cleaned up his act? Dan Rath arrives at this year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival not in slovenly T-shirt,…
Mel McGlensey Is Motorboat
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
11/04/2024 … Mel McGlensey arrives in Melbourne with a ‘best comedy’ award she won in Adelaide and reviews ablaze with a constellation of stars – while here…