© Channel 4 Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back
05/04/2019 … Consumer programmes have long been a mainstay of broadcasting, though their tone has always tended to be piously earnest rather than funny.
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Fri 05 April 2019
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Damien Power: Man Puts His Dreams In A Sock
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
05/04/2019 … Damien Power’s show must have run for about 25 minutes in Adelaide, given how much of it is devoted to giving the South Australian capital a hard time.
Josh Szeps in #youtoo
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
05/04/2019 … ‘More like a TED Talk,’ has become something of a running joke for comedy shows with an earnest agenda, but it’s hard to think of a more fitting…
Thu 04 April 2019
Tom Ballard: Enough
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
04/04/2019 … Tom Ballard got dumped by the ABC last year, when they axed his low-rated topical programme Tonightly – and he’s very angry about it.
Cassie Workman: Giantess
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
04/04/2019 … Cassie Workman has ruined her big reveal.
Bob Franklin: Sir Robert's History of Horror
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
04/04/2019 … Respected comedy veteran Bob Franklin sets a suitably spooky mood for his lecture on the history of horror, helped immeasurably by the musical accompaniment of James…
Wed 03 April 2019
Tom Walker: Very Very
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
03/04/2019 … Tom Walker bills this as his take on ‘comedy’s dirtiest four-letter word: mime’, the performance art that – despite the best effort…
Matt Stewart: Bone Dry
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
03/04/2019 … Dry not just in his deadpan wit, Matt Stewart also gave up booze for a few months.