In case you missed it, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is kind of a big deal. In fact, with more than 650 shows and 7,800 individual performances...
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024: your ultimate guide
Are you ready to laugh so hard it hurts? One of the largest comedy festivals in the world, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF)...
Julian O'Shea on his debut MICF show and why he’s charging some people $150 for tickets
If you live in Melbourne and you have an internet connection, chances are you’ve encountered one of Julian O’Shea’s viral TikToks, which tend...
Claire Hooper on tackling MICF without her friend: “This is a month of remembering Cal"
There was a point, early in 2023, when comedian Claire Hooper was considering chucking in the chuckle-serving and finding a new gig. “It’s an odd...
Ed Gamble on finding his funny bone, Off Menu, and his stand-up show 'Electric'
Ed Gamble is hungry. The stand-up comedian, writer and co-host of the award-winning hit podcast Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster will soon make his...
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This week in Melbourne comedy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Australia's biggest and best comedy festival returns in 2024 with a colossal program of rollicking comedy
Melbourne
Fern Brady: I Gave You Milk to Drink
Scotland’s queen of comedy is back with her delightfully blunt tales of Botox, magic mushrooms and being pigeonholed as an ‘inspirational autistic woman'
Melbourne
Lou Wall: The Bisexual's Lament
Wall comes out swinging after the worst year of their life in this one-of-a-kind masterwork of tragicomedy
Melbourne
Melanie Bracewell: Attack of the Melanie Bracewell
The Kiwi comedian is an expert in her craft who’s in a silly, goofy mood in her latest MICF outing
Melbourne
In conversation
Rhys Nicholson on RuPaul’s Drag Race, cinema prisons and their tips for festival first-timers
Rhys Nicholson has a bone to pick, and that bone is with Pentridge Cinemas. The former prison in Melbourne has recently transformed into a boutique cinema and...
Joanne McNally on tackling taboos, ghosting therapists and living a life 'unfertilised'
Once upon a time, a twenty-something Joanne McNally was battling with her friends over whose turn it was to sleep in the singular bed in their shambles of a...
Ed Gamble on finding his funny bone, Off Menu, and his stand-up show 'Electric'
Ed Gamble is hungry. The stand-up comedian, writer and co-host of the award-winning hit podcast Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster will soon make his...
Prue Blake on tarot readers, niche comedy and when it’s worth shaving your legs
When Prue Blake moved from Brisbane to Melbourne, she signed up for improv classes because she knew that that was how Abbi and Ilana of Broad City met. Four...