Papa CJ: Naked
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
06/04/2015 … Setting out his ‘philosophy’ for Naked, Indian comic Papa CJ promises to expose all his vulnerabilities until he is emotionally – and perhaps physically –…
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 06 April 2015
Lawrence Leung: The Escapist
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
06/04/2015 … Many festival shows wear their themes like a straitjacket.
Sun 05 April 2015
Claire Hooper: School Camp
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2015 … Theming a show around such a universal Australian experience as the school camp offers Claire Hooper the chance to wallow in lots of cute ‘remember this…’…
Matt Okine: The Other Guy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2015 … Australian radio is the graveyard of so many promising comedians.
Heckle!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2015 … Heckle, a late-night format in which audience members are invited to yell out at the comics on stage doesn’t really work – at least not tonight – and probably…
Sat 04 April 2015
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.
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…