2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival reviews
All we've seen so far
All our reviews from the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival:
Ben McCarthy: Cadet Kelly Is The Best Movie I've Ever Seen In My Friggin Life
Blake Freeman: Kul
Brett Blake: Little Turd
Bronwyn Kuss: I'll Allow It
Emma Holland: Don't Touch My Trinkets
Garry Starr: Monkeys Everywhere
Geraldine Quinn: Bastard Joy
Jessica Barton: Dirty Work
Julio Torres: Color Theories
Kate Dolan: The Critic
Laura Davis: Despair Is Beneath Us
Lou Wall: Breaking The Fifth Wall
Melanie Bracewell: A Little Treat
Noah Szto: Med School
Robyn Reynolds - What Doesn't Kill You
Scout Boxall: God's Favourite
Two Hearts: Don’t Stop Throbbing
Abby Howells: Welcome To My Dream
Aidan Jones: Chopin's Nocturne
Alex Ward: Clip Clop Don't Stop
Anisa Nandaul: You Can't Say That
Broden Kelly: Yabusele
Burton Brothers: Fortune Seekers
Gillian Cosgriff: Fresh New Worries
Guy Montgomery: I’ve Noticed So Many Things, It’d Be Unfair To Keep Them To Myself
Guy Williams: If You Mildly Criticise Me I’ll Say It’s Cancel Culture And Turn To The Alt Right
Hannah Camilleri: What I'm Going For
Julian O’Shea: One For The Record Books
Laura Daniel: Can You Smell That? Must Be A Queen Going Off!
Oliver Coleman: The Ballad of Oliver Coleman
Ray O'Leary: Laughter? I Hardly Know Her!
Sugar Bits: Feminist Trash
Takashi Wakasugi: Comedy Samurai
Will Gibb: Why Am I Like This?
Zach Ruane & Alexei Toliopoulos: Refused Classification
Zoë Coombs Marr The Splash Zone
Aditya Gautam: Unskilled Immigrant
Andy Balloch: The Wedding
Charlene Kaye: Tiger Daughter
Ethan Cavanagh: Bond, Lost My Bond
Jack Ansett: What's Everyone Having for Dinner?
Kaileb Hyland: Problem Child
Kura Forrester: Here If You Need
Meg Jäger: Renaissance Woman
Nick Robertson: Everything That Happened at Number 68
Sez: Keeps Me Young
Tom Witcombe: Selfies At The 9/11 Museum
Wankernomics: Just Touching Base
William Wang: Journey to the West
Fully Charged: Business and Pleasure
Mel & Sam: No Hat, No Play! The Cabaret
Mike McLeish: Pensive Like A Fox
Rapha Manajem: The Salmon Was Good
Ruby Teys – Cherry Vinyl: Coober Pedy's Last Showgirl
Unrated mixed bill
Published: 19 Apr 2025
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