Dan Rath: Help Me Please
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
08/04/2026 … Is there a finer writer of jokes in Australia than Dan Rath? Probably not.
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Wed 08 April 2026
Emma Holland: The Dog Dies At The Start
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
08/04/2026 … Mourning the death of her greyhound Teddy, Emma Holland starts her show with a sombre and heartfelt essay poetically musing on the nature of grief.
Damien Power: Unnerved
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
08/04/2026 … The world as Damien Power experiences it is essentially a bleak, hostile place that should be tackled with steely cynicism – or accepted through a drug-induced…
The Burton Brothers: Tinseltown
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
08/04/2026 … Burton Brothers Josh and Tom have always excelled at creating an authentic sense of time and place in their skilfully performed sketch shows, and Tinseltown is no…
Grace Hogan: Hot Chicken Bags
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
08/04/2026 … It’s an odd premise for a comedy show – yet also not odd enough: Grace Hogan has had the idea of making handbags from the packaging Woolworths uses…
Tue 07 April 2026
George Rigden: Self-Inflicted
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
07/04/2026 … When the comedy circuit was going through its MeToo moment in 2020, a parody Twitter account called Male Comedian Apologises offered a biting satirical take on the…
Barney Pollock: King Of The Pigs 2
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
07/04/2026 … This is Barney Pollock’s first festival show, but the skill and commitment with which he inhabits his nightmarishly surreal characters tells you he’s…
Guy Williams: Rich People Are Stealing From You and Blaming Brown People and Trans People and Some People Believe Them Aaahhhhhh!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
07/04/2026 … Why should the right-wing have the monopoly on asshole comedians? That’s the gap in the market that New Zealand’s Guy Williams is seeking to fill with…