Rob Caruana: Learn Comedy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
04/04/2015 … Seventeen minutes in, and Rob Caruana’s show is interrupted by his brother and his mates noisily entering the tiny 40-seater room.
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Sat 04 April 2015
The Heckler
Melbourne International Comedy Festival film review by Steve Bennett
04/04/2015 … To live someone else's life, if only for a day, is such a potent philosophical scenario that it's little wonder that there's an established film genre of body-swap…
Nazeem Hussain: Legally Brown
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
04/04/2015 … This might be his first solo show, but Nazeem Hussain comes to the Melbourne comedy festival with his own TV vehicle – SBS’s Legally Brown – and years of…
Anne Edmonds: You Know What I'm Like!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
04/04/2015 … Anne Edmonds’ obvious forte is her precise portrayal of an awful collection of suburban grotesques, although of all her personalities, the one that most intrigues…
Fri 03 April 2015
Ceremony with Dr Brown and Sam Simmons
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
03/04/2015 … A messy, sweaty orgy of barely-choreographed chaos, Ceremony lets Sam Simmons and Dr Brown fully off the leash to indulge their most anarchic ideas… and neither…
Thu 02 April 2015
Hannah Gadsby: Donkey
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2015 … Mental health is an increasingly fertile ground for comedy, partly because the issue is losing its wider stigma and partly because stand-ups always want to explore,…
Susie Youssef: Owl Eyes On You
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2015 … Early in her show, Susie Youssef jokes with an air of ironic self-deprecation that she’s trepidatious about the show, but: ‘I don’t know why I’m nervous……
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Headliners [Melbourne 2015]
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
02/04/2015 … Whether by accident or design, there’s a varied ethnic mix to the initial line-up of Melbourne’s US stand-up showcase Headliners, featuring a Jewish guy, an…