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 in his tongue-in-cheek delivery. Satire flows freely and the audience laps it up in loud guffaws. No one is spared: ‘museum’ bankers, mobile companies, neglectful parents, illogical traffic codes, even blokes with their ‘cash converted’ …

I got a late phone call to see Wellington WHO, so I decided not to read any of the posters advertising the show and just check it out with no prior idea or expectations.
The first part of my mission late on a Saturday night was to navigate into the bowels of Trades Hall and enter through the doors of The Police Box into a slightly-larger-than-a-broom-closet like room.
After an epic sci-fi type introduction, the title Wellington WHO started to make sense. Craig Wellington declared his geek past and an obsession with …

Triple Trouble can be summed up in one word’excellent. Combining the best aspects of stand-up, some fun musical numbers, and some on the spot improvision, it delivered an amazing evening. As a long time fan of improvision shows, I was deadset on seeing this one, and my eagerness was richly rewarded. There is no real way to fully describe the sheer energy host Dan Walmsley has as he pranced about the stage, jokes coming thick and fast. The audience loved it.
Combining some great jokes from comedians like Duff, as well …

The phrase ‘self help’ should be enough to make anyone run for the hills. Don’t. Trent McCarthy delivers his take on the twelve steps to recovery with a healthy dose of understated cheek. Dr. Phil devotees and the like, be warned. You may be offended’we can only hope.
Starting off with a short film, McCarthy establishes his story and struggle. We meet his fellow 12 steppers and their over zealous facilitator, a man who McCarthy points out is overcoming his own addiction for facilitating groups.
McCarthy uses his caring, sharing, highly therapised …

You can tell by the show’s title that this will not be subtle storytelling from one of Melbourne’s most versatile and volatile actors.
Clacker is not the only c-word Tammy Anderson lets loose in this howlingly funny but often cringe-worthy tour of the body’s private places and less popular functions.
Yes, there are fart jokes. And ones about childbirth, sex, anal infections and incontinence.
Just for starters.
Anderson already has a great reputation for honest and confronting writing and performance, particularly through her solo show I Don’t Wanna Play House, which examined her Tasmanian, …

Dark, humorous and weird, Strangelove the Musical is an adaptation of the 1964 classic film Dr. Strangelove. Tristan Coelho’s music is a fantastic addition to the already bizarre story. Nuclear warfare presented through song is not something you see every day, but this show is definitely worth a look.
Jon Williams is superb as the maniacal Brigadier General Ripper who torments Group Captain Mandrake, played by Kip Williams. Think comedic versions of Kurt and Marlow stuck in a small room with a six-barrelled machine gun. The things Ripper gets up to …

I was disappointed to find that I had gone to a sell-out comedy show, only to watch jokes I’d already seen performed on TV.
Stephen K Amos has done some brilliant work’brilliant enough that I’ve got tapes of his routines from various comedy festivals, including his set for Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Great Debate in 2005, which I also saw live. The topic was ‘Does God have a sense of humour?’
Unfortunately, this just means I have video proof that Amos’s routine this year was peppered with stale material. His latest set …