Tag: "comedy"

Chris Tucker
0 Comments. 244 Views. Posted 22 May 2013 @ 10:54am.
Chris Tucker makes quite an impression. He has been in far fewer movies than you would think, no more than a dozen, but it feels like more, because each of his roles is so distinctive. The biggest of these roles was as the fast-talking Detective Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy. He made his name in the films, not to mention his fortune – the third instalment made him the highest-paid... Read More
Comic In The Corner: Greg Fleet
0 Comments. 48 Views. Posted 15 May 2013 @ 7:23pm.
What's the funniest heckle you've heard? A comedian from England had a joke where they came onstage and opened with the line, “Hello, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I”. At one particular gig he came out as usual and after saying “Hello, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I”, someone from the back of the room yelled back, “Well why don’t you both fuck off”.   What is the meaning of life? It’s a... Read More
Urzila Carlson - I’m Going To Need A Second Opinion
0 Comments. 294 Views. Posted 31 Mar 2013 @ 2:12pm.
Urzila Carlson is an odd mix of all things peculiar and remarkably normal, simultaneously. The Kiwi slash South African, middle aged, lesbian opened to a full room on Friday in the intimate Portico Room in Melbourne Town Hall. The sound of her shrill, high pitched commanding voice impressing the audience in her debut solo MICF show – ‘I’m going to need a second opinion.’ The great thing about... Read More
Chris Tucker Announces Debut Australian Tour
0 Comments. 572 Views. Posted 27 Mar 2013 @ 10:31am.
Firebrand star of iconic comedies Friday and the Rush Hour series Chris Tucker has announced his first ever stand-up tour of Australia. After taking a six year hiatus from the big screen, Tucker recently returned to co-star alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro in the Oscar-nominated film Silver Linings Playbook. Exploring a different and more thoughtful dimension as... Read More
Russell Peters
0 Comments. 316 Views. Posted 5 Mar 2013 @ 10:15am.
Russell Peters is that rare comedian who occupies the tricky ground of being both genuine and hilarious in conversation. The Canadian comic flips topics constantly – moving with ease from his current state of hydration to being the biggest comedian to perform in Dubai – yet there’s no calculated mean-spiritedness, or attempts to puff up his own ego. As the conversation progresses it becomes clear... Read More
The Beards Announce First World Tour
0 Comments. 433 Views. Posted 4 Mar 2013 @ 9:30am.
Hilarious beard rock group The Beards will be bringing their songs about beards to the rest of the planet with their first ever world tour. As well as their homeland, The Beards will tour the USA, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland. Read More
MICF Opens Funny Tonne Applications
0 Comments. 681 Views. Posted 1 Mar 2013 @ 9:57am.
Every year the Melbourne International Comedy Festival puts a call out for comedy enthusiasts with no life to apply for The Funny Tonne – a competition to see just how many shows it is possible for one person to see during the festival. Applicants are interviewed and a few lucky lads or lasses, oozing stamina and enthusiasm, and once again nothing to do in their lives, get a pass to see as many... Read More
Housos Vs Authority
0 Comments. 631 Views. Posted 28 Feb 2013 @ 5:00am.
“It's like Titanic but with bogans in it.” It's a big call, right? However, after having the pleasure of receiving an advanced copy of director Paul Fenech's latest flick to make the transition from the big screen to DVD, I must agree the similarities are uncanny. Both tell tales of adventures bound for the most unlikely of disasters; both gently tug on the heart-stings in stories of... Read More
La Mama Presents The Joy of Text
0 Comments. 555 Views. Posted 21 Feb 2013 @ 3:41pm.
La Mama Theatre will host a very special première next month. Entitled The Joy of Text, the play is about how not to mess with the genius in class. Originally performed at the MTC, Robert Reid weaves an intelligent dialogue of conniving deception created by the protagonist, Danny.   Danny is a high school student. Danny’s smart, very smart. So intelligent in fact that people ridicule his... Read More
Comic In The Corner: John Conway
0 Comments. 411 Views. Posted 29 Jan 2013 @ 6:25pm.
What's the worst experience you have had in your comedy career? I once died for an hour, like proper die i.e. silence (boos are better than silence). Towards the end I ran off stage and regrettably hid under some stairs to avoid the audience. It was the worst place to hide as I could hear every one of them saying how bad I was as they were walking down them.   What's the deal with politics... Read More
Comic In The Corner: Luke McGregor
0 Comments. 290 Views. Posted 16 Jan 2013 @ 8:56am.
What's the worst sex story you've ever had happen to you or have heard about? That my parents had sex once.   What's the funniest heckle you've heard? Once before I’d even reached the stage a guy yelled out, “Get off!” so I just stood there off stage looking at him and he said, “Nah...Go on”. I got up and he said, “Get off!”   What is the meaning of life? I’m saving it for Twitter,... Read More
The Wayans Brothers
0 Comments. 555 Views. Posted 8 Jan 2013 @ 12:11pm.
It’s the early 2000s in the small, western Victorian town I grew up in. There is a family-owned video library at the centre of town in possession of what was a veritable holy grail for us adolescents in the pre-broadband era – a VHS copy of the Wayans brothers’ 1996 spoof Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood. None of us had ever seen any of the films... Read More
Jason Byrne
0 Comments. 583 Views. Posted 19 Dec 2012 @ 4:40am.
Jason Byrne is sneaking outside his house and almost whispering. In Ireland, it’s 10pm and his children are asleep. As a regularly gigging stand-up comedian (his popularity in the UK is such that he has been consistently one of the highest selling acts at the Edinburgh Fringe) he’s not always home in the evenings, but he’s “in the house” on this night and with two boys who have school the next... Read More
Raw Comedy
0 Comments. 790 Views. Posted 11 Dec 2012 @ 10:17am.
Woody Allen once explained that the only philosophy that hasn’t failed him throughout his life is that “Eighty percent of success is showing up”. With heats in all capital cities and regions such as Geelong, Newcastle, Byron Bay, Wollongong and Cairns, and a prize that includes a trip to perform in Edinburgh, RAW Comedy is simply begging to discover the next Chris Lilley, Tom Ballard, Tim Minchin... Read More
Tracy Morgan 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 1,848 Views. Posted 1 Nov 2012 @ 2:52pm.
US actor and comedian Tracy Morgan from NBC's 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live will tour Australia for the first time with his stand up show in April next year. As a stand-up comic, Morgan has headlined stand up shows across right America, as well as joining Saturday Night Live in 1996 where he appeared for seven seasons and created such memorable characters as ‘Astronaut Jones’ and ‘... Read More
Dave Hughes
0 Comments. 1,106 Views. Posted 17 Oct 2012 @ 11:37am.
It’s Wednesday May 2, 2012, and over 32,000 copies of Beat Magazine have been scattered across Melbourne. As readers reach for a copy, they’re confronted by an illustration of a naked man on the cover, with a by-line reading, ‘Sayonara bitches, it’s been real!’. That man was Luke Benge, a former typesetter at Beat, who decided to finish his last day here in a way his predecessors had only dreamed... Read More
Two Guys, A Girl and A Microphone
0 Comments. 846 Views. Posted 10 Oct 2012 @ 11:43am.
There's comfort in knowing Two Guys, a Girl and a Microphone is exactly as promised, showcasing the wares of up-and-coming comedians Sam Petersen, Roland Hoffman and Lauren Bok. However, it's equally true that this is an hour lacking in ingenuity and imagination, serving up the bare minimum expected of a stand-up ensemble. The format of Two Guys... is intriguing. It's a show comprised of three... Read More
Dr.Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown & His Singing Tiger
0 Comments. 497 Views. Posted 10 Oct 2012 @ 8:11am.
Dr.Brown's family-friendly venture fuses his award-winning physical comedy with good, wholesome fun.  Stuart Bowden plays a singing, ukulele-strumming tiger, the friendly MC of proceedings. He sports an unusually nervous disposition, flustered in the face of Dr.Brown's antics. Where Bowden does his best to keep everything together, Brown plays an endearing agent of chaos, exuding a Mr.Bean-... Read More
Dr.Brown: Befrdfgth
0 Comments. 531 Views. Posted 10 Oct 2012 @ 8:09am.
2012 has seen Befrdfgth conquer both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Edinburgh, solidifying Dr.Brown's status as one of the hottest comedy prospects around. The master of madcap mischief recently staged a successful homecoming, with a return season of his celebrated show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Befrdfgth is an imaginative, ambitious spectacle based around Dr.Brown's... Read More
Sarah Silverman Announces Melbourne Show
3 Comments. 1,848 Views. Posted 9 Oct 2012 @ 10:27am.
Outrageuous comedian Sarah Silverman has announced a headline Melbourne performance this December. Star of The Sarah Silverman Program, Sarah ha gained a worldwide following with her brazen, boundry-pushing style of comedy.   Sarah has also appeared in numerous films such as School Of Rock, Take This Waltz, and the upcoming Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph - plus a shitload of viral... Read More
Fiona O'Loughlin
0 Comments. 669 Views. Posted 8 Oct 2012 @ 2:35pm.
Comedian Fiona O ’Loughlin has been a regular on Spicks and Specks, Rove Live, Good News Week, and appeared on Dancing With The Stars andCelebrity Apprentice to name a few of her feats. There’s a reason this lady is on high demand. She is sassy, straightforward, and to put it simply: she is sidesplittingly funny. Dancing With The Stars sounded like a particular... Read More
Ed Byrne
0 Comments. 682 Views. Posted 8 Oct 2012 @ 2:23pm.
Irish comedian Ed Byrne has performed at festivals across the globe, appeared on television shows like Conan, done factual broadcasting for BBC, and frankly had a varied and rich career. He now returns to Australia for a few national shows. “The worst heckle I ever got was in Sydney actually”, Ed reflected with amused nostalgia. “The gig went relatively well. This really drunk woman opened... Read More
Friend Ship
0 Comments. 446 Views. Posted 9 Oct 2012 @ 2:33pm.
On her trip to ‘cooldom’ Dr Kenzie Larsen realised there was an acute formula to becoming someone’s friend. It consisted of the standard fabrication of stories we weave as children to ‘fit in’ and remain one of those children within the crowd that everyone wants to befriend. Overcome with her revelation, Dr Larsen established a seminar entitled Friend Ship to help people who “have no... Read More
One Character or Less
0 Comments. 450 Views. Posted 10 Oct 2012 @ 1:30pm.
Self-proclaimed actor/writer/director/producer Charles Barrington returns to charm audiences with another unique hour of stand-up comedy. Barrington’s authoritative drawl is his calling card as a comic performer. Essentially, Barrington’s languid delivery accounts for one aspect of a carefully crafted persona. Combined with a dazed stage demeanor and a look bringing together Ringo Starr and Bono... Read More
Truth
0 Comments. 649 Views. Posted 2 Oct 2012 @ 4:38pm.
The team from Slow Clap are back, presenting quirky, schizophrenic comedy at its finest. Truth, a sold-out sensation at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, looks poised to conquer this year's Melbourne Fringe Festival. But where to even begin? Dissecting Truth for review is the epitome of a writer’s nightmare: say too little and you’ve not awarded the show due praise. Conversely,... Read More
Jason Byrne's Massive Christmas Special
0 Comments. 1,002 Views. Posted 19 Sep 2012 @ 6:34am.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival favourite Jason Byrne is returning to Melbourne for a once off Massive Christmas Special. Byrne will perform exclusively in Melbourne with a brand new show featuring new stories, props and of course, the star of every show who cowers in dread whilst beging for more - The Audience.   Delivering completely sold out shows at the Melbourne International... Read More
The Unspoken Word is “Joe” At La Mama
0 Comments. 913 Views. Posted 13 Sep 2012 @ 1:58pm.
Writer, performer, and director Zoey Dawson (I know there's a lot of noise outside but you have to close your eyes) returns with her frightfully gripping play The Unspoken Word is “Joe”, a profound play about life, or so it seems. Presented by La Mama Theatre and the City of Darebin, The Unspoken Word is “Joe” is a play that was written essentially as an outlet of dealing with a very bad break-... Read More
Bell Shakespeare's The School For Wives
0 Comments. 1,110 Views. Posted 18 Jul 2012 @ 9:30am.
This is the story, like many others, of a man with a problem. See, this guy desperately wants to get married but is afraid that a smart woman will cheat on him.  So what does he do? He enlists the help of a local convent to raise a girl so stupidly innocent that she won’t know the first thing about cheating. She’ll be the perfect little wife. Hopefully.  Read More
Anh Do
0 Comments. 1,355 Views. Posted 13 Jul 2012 @ 11:44am.
Most two-year-olds have it pretty easy. They pretty much just eat, watch cartoons, kick me in the nuts when I come over to babysit, and then sleep. Not so for Anh Do. In 1980, he found himself cramped into a nine-metre long fishing boat with 47 other Vietnamese refugees sailing across the Indian Ocean in search of escape from the horror of their homeland. He was violently sick from dehydration.... Read More
Pam Ann Goes Around The World
0 Comments. 1,023 Views. Posted 9 Jul 2012 @ 12:22pm.
Head Around The World as air hostess, Pam Ann, takes you on a wild journey.  From boarding to landing, First Class, Business, or up the back in ‘Cattle’, prepare to fly like you’ve never flown before. Guiding her audience through the conundrums of air travel, Pam Ann skewers the quirks of some of the biggest international airlines and mixes in a stiff cocktail of camp and humour. We’ve all... Read More
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