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This year’s laugh fest has kicked off,with more than 2000 performers stepping up to the mic. Here,our writers take a closer look.
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Takashi Wakasugi,Tarang Hardikar,Anisa Nandaula and Sez are here for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We asked them some very pressing questions.
After a month packed with shows,our reviewers have come together to pick out the best (and most memorable) moments from this year’s comedy festival.
From a performer who is definitely one to watch to some chaotic sketches,see how our reviewers rate the picks of the festival before it ends on Sunday.
From improv steered by children to a comedian at the top of her game,this year’s festival is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews.
From weirdly good questions to a clever use of PowerPoint,this year’s comedy festival is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
The Welsh funny man fell into comedy by way of a haircut on stage. It’s in the family now.
Takashi Wakasugi,Tarang Hardikar,Anisa Nandaula and Sez are among a new generation of performers dominating the stage and screen. We sat them down to ask them for some bad life advice.
Topical comedy is all well and good but as David Quirk discovered this week,it comes with big risks.
As the Melbourne International Comedy Festival turns 40,we count down 40 moments that have shaped the famous event.
The Nanette comedian is back with a Saturday Night Live-style talk show wrapped in a stand-up set and an existential crisis.
Love,loss and duty collide in this genre-bending production of Eighteen Lives.
The British comedian talks weather,politics and Australia’s “weird prehistoric animals” ahead of her show at this year’s Comedy Festival.
Denise Scott has been doing comedy a long time. And finally,she got to host the Melbourne International Comedy Festival gala. She’s also launched the festival’s 40th year.
Stand-up star Lizzy Hoo can read a room before she actually walks on stage. Sometimes that can be an “uh-oh” moment.
UK radio star James Barr was beaten and belittled by his boyfriend – but because he thought he was “meant to be strong”,he struggled to acknowledge what was happening.
The rise of the crowd-work comic:because thinking of a second joke is just too much effort.
Luke McQueen lies,pours soup on his head and uses AI to take down his enemies. No wonder his audiences sometimes walk out.
After 30 years in the top job,Susan Provan is thinking it might be time for someone else to take the wheel. Maybe.
While parts of Sydney have taken thousands of new homes,the roads,transport,schools,hospitals and leisure space people need are sorely missing.
A series of interviews with Sydney’s school principals.