Home Grown: Courteney Hocking
Courteney Hocking fell in love with a boy who was an inventor. What’s a girl to do? Apparently read up on all things inventor-ish and make a comedy festival show all about it.
Hocking was a Victorian Raw Comedy Finalist in 2001, part of Comedy Zone in 2002 and performed her first solo show at [...]
Hey, I Know That Guy: Justin Hamilton
You may know his voice from triple j, or you’ve seen him on ‘The Glass house’, but Justin Hamilton is a hard-working comedian, and it’s clearly more than a job to this talented man from South Australia.
From his early days in a duo act called the ‘Bunta Boys’ in Adelaide’s close-knit comedy world, Justin Hamilton [...]
Don Pasquale
Michael Camilleri made his directorial debut during the L’Or‚àö?al Melbourne Fashion Festival a few years ago with ‘a weird, arty performance, art fashion parade at a strip club in Brunswick.’ This year, the two-time Melbourne Fringe Festival award winner has turned his hand to opera with an absurd update of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. The show [...]
Judith Lucy
In 2004 comedian Judith Lucy started work in the high-profile breakfast shift on Sydney radio station 2DayFM. By the year’s end she’d been demoted to drivetime and sent back to Melbourne. Six months later, she was sacked. Most people would probably try and put such a painful experience behind them, but not Judith. She’s turned [...]
Barry
What the hell is a Barry? It’s the award given to the best show of the Festival each year, named as such in honor of the first patron of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Barry Humphries.
This year, the nominees are;
Daniel Kitson
If you don’t know who he is then we don’t think you really care about [...]
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