© Jim Lee James Acaster wins Melbourne festival award
First Brit to take the prize in nine years
20/04/2019 … James Acaster has won the top prize at the Melbourne comedy festival.
Sat 20 April 2019
© Jim Lee 
58 Melbourne International Comedy Festival reviews
20/04/2019 … Hannah Gadsby: Douglas Andy Matthews & Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall: Magma Anne Edmonds: What's Wrong With You? Cassie Workman: Giantess Damien…
Ron Funches Live
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
20/04/2019 … Drawn to a peculiar titter in the audience, Ron Funches declares in mock-indignity: ‘Nobody out-cutes my giggle!’ For this American comedian’s…
Fringe Wives Club: Glittergrass
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
20/04/2019 … One of the big cult hits of last year just got bigger, with the all-singing, all-dancing, all-arsing-about Fringe Wives Club adding two new members.
Jack Gramenz Is Trying To Win Best Newcomer
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
20/04/2019 … There’s a big lie in Jack Gramenz's knowingly hubristic title: and that’s the word ‘trying’.
Fri 19 April 2019
How to make pizza classy
19/04/2019 … Tweets of the weekBring a little culture to the world by writing "Viv" at the top of all Aldi Four Seasons pizzas.
Tommy Tiernan's chat show to return
In a new primetime Saturday night slot
19/04/2019 … Tommy Tiernan's Irish chat show is returning for a third series.
How the Pope made Stephen K Amos cry
Emotional end to his Pilgrimage as Pontiff condemns homophobia
19/04/2019 … Stephen K Amos might be more used to comedy club banter that challenging the religious hierarchy.