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Secret Show for Sydney Comedy Festival
May 2nd, 2012
Last night saw the eighth annual Sydney Comedy Festival debut its first ever Secret Show with a surprise star-studded line up and held in the ultimate Sydney location, the iconic …
Slap Bang Radio
May 2nd, 2012
Slap Bang Radio was our first featured podcast in late 2011 hosted by comedians Tommy Little and Dave Thornton. The pair have recently come off the Melbourne Comedy Festival and …
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MICF Roadshow
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is a national tour which takes the Melbourne Comedy festival’s favourite acts out of the city and into regional Australia. The hugely successful tour gives many out-of-towners the chance to see comedians they’d otherwise never get to see.
Hannah Gadsby to launch DVD at fruit store
Friday, May 13th, 2011
When Hannah Gadsby agreed to work a shift at her brother’s fruit shop, the Happy Apple in Ascot Vale, she thought “surely people who buy fruit will also want to by my new DVD – KISS ME QUICK, I’M FULL OF JUBES”.
So, off she goes!
From 11am to 2pm, Saturday May the 14th, Hannah will be selling fruit and DVDs at:
The Happy Apple
185 Union Street
Ascot Vale VIC 3032
Hannah’s mum may also put in a special appearance.
This is your best and last chance for some time to catch up with Hannah whilst she is literally surrounded by her family. Take a picture won’t you? Read more...
Man vs Wil vs the world
Friday, May 13th, 2011
In late 2010, Wil gigged for four months in the U.S, doing spots around Los Angeles, building material for his 2011 full length show. Wil Anderson returns to L.A this May with the final product. The one off special appearance of ‘Man vs Wil’ will take place at ‘Largo at The Coronet’ 8pm Tuesday May 24th.
‘Man vs Wil’ won Wil the ‘Bulmers People’s Choice Award’ at the 2011 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. This is the second consecutive year Wil has taken home the award.
Following Los Angeles, Wil continues his international tour to the Cat’s Laugh Festival in Kilkenny. Wil joins some of the UK and Ireland’s biggest names for some killer line up shows between the 4th and 6th June.
Wil then brings a longer run of ‘Man vs Wil’ to London. Wil will perform four shows at the Udderbelly Southbank 9-12 June.
Wil writes on his website that he’ll be “giving the English a chance to laugh at an Aussie who doesn’t play cricket”.
Wil is Currently half way through his season of ‘Man vs Wil’ at the New Zealand Comedy Festival.
24hr Simmons goat breaks Facebook records
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Sam Simmons goat drawing breaks Australian record for most Likes in 24 hours on Facebook and second most in the world.
Congratulations to Sam Simmons who successfully completed his 24 hour radio marathon at 8am this morning.
Angry Boys premiere tonight
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
After months of huge hype, Chris Lilley’s new project ‘Angry Boys’ hits Australian screens tonight 9pm on ABC1.
Sam Simmons hosts triple j for 24 hours
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Barry nominated comedian Sam Simmons, is attempting the epic task of hosting live radio for 24 hours this Thursday 12th May.
Karl’s Final Festival Blog
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
It’s over.
Like the classics say, “The circus has left town.”
“The fat lady has sung.”
“The front of the Town Hall is no longer filled by desperate interstate comics trying to fill empty rooms with “special” two-for-one deals.”
Classics.
Once the final Sunday is done and everyone’s last shows are over, there’s a collective breathing-out by comics across the city. After a heavy month, it’s a time to exhale, and generally, a time for the body to realize what it’s been putting up with for four weeks. And it’s response is generally “Fuck this. I’m going on break. See you in a week. What’re these potato cakes doing in here?”
Melbourne Comedy Festival Award winners
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
The 2011 Melbourne Comedy Festival award winners were announced at approximately 1.30am last night.
Here are the results:
Barry Award: Russell Kane
Having already finished his MICF season, Russell was not present to accept his award. Instead, hosts Sammy J and Randy called him with the news and presented the audience with video of Russells’ recent drag performance for Comic Relief.
Australia’s Best YouTube Comedy Creators
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
The success of online comedy video is difficult to gauge. It would be easy to say that the most successful online productions are simply the videos with the most views, but often it’s productions with very few views that gain media attention, which could result in commercial success in the long run. If we were to list the top 5 online comedy creators based on view count alone, they would consist of Sydney video blogger Natalie Tran (360 million views) and a whole lot kittens falling over.
Therefore, in compiling the following list of comedy creators, several factors were considered: view count, mainstream media attention, industry attention and the content must be scripted narrative comedy (no video bloggers or home videos). We’ll cover video bloggers and Natalie Tran later.
Handsomity Institute
(Nick Boshier, Jarod Green and Anthony MacFarlane)
The team responsible for two of Australia’s most successful YouTube creations ever: Beached Az and Trent From Punchy.
Between 2008 and 2009 it was difficult Read more...
Live WTF! Podcast recording at MICF – the guest list
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
American comedian Marc Maron will stage a live recording of his hit podcast WTF! this Saturday for the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
WTF! is a hugely successful podcast and consistently sits in the top 10 in the US iTunes store. The show’s success comes from Maron’s no holds barred, honest, revealing and sometimes controversial interviews with some of the world’s biggest comedy stars.
Previous episodes have included in depth interviews with Louis CK, Dane Cook, Judd Apatow and Stewart Lee. Read more...