// The Pun 2007

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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The Pun

Trading Spaces

Elegant, vintage, rough at the edges, Trades Hall is a venue worth seeing.
This historic building is a labyrinth of passages and stairwells that wind up, down and around and open out onto ornate, carpeted foyers and trendy warehouse spaces.
Like the advertising material in the dank subways of London’s Underground, posters follow the gradient of the [...]

Crossing the border under the cover of darkness

It’s a well-known fact that every year a billion people attend the Melbourne Intergalactic Comedy Festival.Ôø?Ôø? They come in their millions by plane, boat, gyrocopter and segue.Ôø?Ôø? Speaking of segues: the three boys from Hooray for Everything aren’t one.
Matt, Phil and Stevie D left Brisbane by car at six on Sunday morning.Ôø?Ôø? (Imagine how early [...]

Dry wit, very dry wit

I love a drink. To tell the truth, I love lots of drinks. In good times and in bad, alcohol has always been there for me, a reliable friend, ready to commiserate or to celebrate. I probably wouldn’t have lost my virginity without it - I had to get that bloke really drunk.
Festivals are the [...]

In other news…

This year’s festival has started off on a joyous note: we’re winning the War On Terror. David Hicks has confessed to providing material support for terrorism. The bleeding-heart pinkos no longer have a leg to stand on with their bleating about his unfair treatment. Some went so far as to call it un-Australian, which is [...]

Wrong Way, Keep Going

Wrong Way, Keep Going takes one on a hilarious roller coaster through the life of an average Australian. Adam Rozenbachs tickles, jars, stings, surprises as he delivers wisecracks on everyday occurrences. In the solo performance, his witty arrows never stop falling throughout this fifty-minute kaleidoscope.
There is practically no turf the artist does not trod upon [...]

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