// The Pun 2006 Interviews

The Pun is a free weekly publication which is released each Wednesday of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It aims to offer a comprehensive guide to the festival for everyday punters, publishing reviews, news and interviews from the festival.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Sitdown not Standup: Hip Hop 4 Dummeez

I know a lot about hip hop. How many licks it takes ’til you get to the centre. The right moments to drop it like it’s hot. And how do I know? Because the crowd went, ‘Ho!’
But according to Canadian hip hop posse the Grafenberg All-Stars, I have much to learn. And in Hip Hop [...]

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