The Pun

Hey, I Know That Guy

By Lefa Singleton Norton ⋅ May 25, 2006 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Familiar faces and voices abound in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Here’s just a bit of info to help you place where you’ve seen and heard them before.

Andy Muirhead‘That happy chappy from ‘Collectors’ is also an incredibly talented stand-up comic. His show, Andy Muirhead is??Perky shows off his day job.
Dave Callan‘Surely you’ve heard his dulcet tones on triple j? Part Irish, part mad (in the best possible way), Callan returns to the festival this year with The Sunshine Factory (Part Two). Considering Part One was hailed as quite the success, it’s probably worth catching it this time round.
Adam Hills‘Music host by night, comedy all-star by??other nights. ‘Spicks and Specks’ host Hills will make you laugh over more than just music in his show Characterful.
Christina Davis‘Most known for her days on ‘Big Brother’, this smiling face presents a stand-up show Christina Davis ‘ The Secret Diaries of Unnamed Fraser, showing she has far more interesting material than reality TV to talk about.
Adam Richard‘Yes, he’s Fabulous, and if he floats your boat with his gossip and bitching on FoxFM, you’re sure to enjoy a full hour of his shtick.
Greg Fleet‘He’s done radio, sure, but he’s old school comedy mafia. He’s da man and, while you may have liked hearing him on any of the airwaves, he has far more passion and pull on stage I assure you. Now let him tell you all about it in Word Up where he talks about talking.
Helen Thorn‘Did you catch ‘Vulture’? Well that smart lady talking about Art, she’s doing it for an hour at the festival. Helen Thorn is Arty Farty is all about Helen Thorn. And Art.
Charlie Pickering‘Another familiar voice, Pickering has been heard on triple j but is much more entertaining in an hour where he shares his own stories in Auto.
Justin Hamilton‘You’ve seen him on ‘The Glass House’ (Well I have, anyway.) and heard him on triple j, but to us he will always be that kick-arse comic who comes up with an hour of solid gold material each year. Justin Hamilton??Smash! is pretty much what it says, a smash.
There’s a rash of talented comics who worked their butts off on TV series ’skitHOUSE’, which was really a distraction from their other funny work: Australian Fast Bowler Tom Gleeson in Non Stop Tom, Tripod singing up a storm in Self Saucing, Cal Wilson discarding her New Zealand rugby-loving ways to explore all things AFL in Up There, Cal Wilson, Damian Callinan laughing it up with not one but two shows (Damian Callinan has Spaznuts and Damian Callinan is Babysitting) and Michael Chamberlin spreading the holy word in Michael Chamberlin and the Ten Commandments.
The Pinch‘These lads may take over your fave local radio station, 3RRR, but they also weave their live magic at festivals over Melbourne. This year they combine both with a live broadcast in The Pinch: Radiolive.