Topical comedy is all well and good but as David Quirk discovered this week,it comes with big risks.
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.
Billing herself as “Australia’s first attractive comedian”,Elouise Eftos describes her comedy as “punk rock”.
After 30 years in the top job,Susan Provan is thinking it might be time for someone else to take the wheel. Maybe.
Stephanie Broadbridge’s Breaking:The Musical had to overcome some legal challenges to make it to the Comedy Festival,where it’s just started its run. This is what the crowd can expect.
After an emotionally tough year,award-winning stand-up comedian Geraldine Hickey is back on track (and running on it,too).
The creator of Emmy-nominated series Please Like Me will tour Australia for the first time in five years with his new stand-up show.
Director Susan Provan has defended the festival’s decision not to pay an official tribute to the late comedian,but insists he has not been “snubbed”.
What’s the one word podcaster and television presenter Wil Anderson overuse “like a teenage girl”?
After 16 years on the stage hosting her cult late night variety show,cabaret star Ali McGregor has seen it all when it comes to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.