Your show is over, it’s cold and you’re hungry. You can’t be bothered fighting the crowds at the five restaurants near the Melbourne Town Hall, and the thought of fast food makes the jokes in your system want to leap out onto the pavement. Enter the wonderful world of Mon’s Comedy Cooker, rescuing your stomach, funny bones and several other vital organs.

Monica Dullard presents Mon’s Comedy Cooker is a combination of comedy characterisation, food and entertainment all rolled into one caravan set up on the grounds of City Square for the duration of the festival. Sounds like a stunt? Well, maybe that assumption would be right, but the food is actually really good. The baklava is delicious, the Iraqi pie is politically correct AND tasty, and I have it on good record that the lamb pizza kicks arse.

Mon and a regularly rotating list of comedians man the food station every night, combining their culinary and comedic skills to keep the public happy and fed. If you can’t get tickets to that big International, ask Mon if they’ll be doing a spot at the Cooker, and you could book yourself in for a free, personal performance. Or just grab a seat and enjoy watching people be caught unawares as they get their midnight snack from a comic caravan. It’s a perfect solution to two of Melbourne’s biggest problems: sad people and the hungry.