The Match Committee – I may need a Rosetta Stone for this one…
Click here to view the embedded video. The Match Committee is a series of webisodes set behind the scenes of a small footy team. I’ve long been missing the sporting gene, and would probably benefit...
View ArticleMeanwhile, somewhere in Sydney…
In amongst the chaos and excitement that is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, it’s easy to forget that something similar (but on a much smaller scale) is playing out in Sydney. The Sydney...
View ArticleJohn Cleese to head up Sydney Just for Laughs festival
British comedian and python alumni John Cleese will host the upcoming Just for Laughs festival in Sydney. The four day gala (with future events planned) will be from 1-4 September at the Sydney Opera...
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Radio play: The Power of Monkey Island, Part 04
A bit of shameless cross promotion here, by drawing the attention of Crikey readers to the new part of The Power of Monkey Island, a ten part radio play that I’ve been making at one of my other...
View ArticleThe Match Committee episode 18
For those of you who haven’t seen it, The Match Committee (starring Lawrence Mooney and Sam Pang) have released episode 18, and it’s worth watching (to be fair, all of the Match Committee falls in this...
View ArticleComedy news round-up – 16th August
Got something to include in the next comedy news round-up? Send Matt an email. Now that Can of Worms has had time to settle in, Good News Week will be back in the form of a new show, Good News Planet....
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First impressions of A Moody Christmas
For anyone who’s ever trudged back home despite your greatest reservations to spend quality time with a dysfunctional family at Christmas, this ABC comedy goes out to you… A Moody Christmas, the new...
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Review: Geraldine Quinn in Stranger | Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Cathy Alexander writes… The poster was terrible, my vodka was in a plastic cup and there was almost no one in the audience. So it was just as well Geraldine Quinn was hilarious. Part musical theatre,...
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Review: Tony Martin in The Yeti | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … In the early 1980s, Auckland was a wasteland of brutes and cranks. In a dilapidated boarding house, three young men live with their elderly Swiss landlord and his exhausted...
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Review: Darkness and Light | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Alana Mitchelson writes … It’s one thing for a comedian to playfully poke fun at themselves within a lighthearted context, but this show takes the notion of outlaying your vulnerabilities in the name...
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Review: Inside the Egg: The Life of Anne Geddes’ Prisoner Children |...
Nicole Humphreys writes … Deep inside the egg are some very troubled souls. Traumatised adults are still trying to recover from their premature fame as an Anne Geddes baby. What did Anne do to these...
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Review: Twice Shy | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Amy Freund writes … Get ready to laugh, cringe or even cry at as you follow two rather unfortunate souls who are unlucky in love, life, and, well, everything at the Fringe Festival’s Twice Shy. The...
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Review: Impromptunes | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Carmelene Greco writes … The debut of the spontaneous and eccentric musical-theatre spectacular, Impromptunes, was a success. To start, the audience was asked to come up with the title of the show. On...
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Review: Wordgasm Smackdown | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Isabelle Lane writes … Wordgasm Smackdown styles itself as the ‘Fight Club for word nerds’. Alas, it appears Brad Pitt, who may have been able to provide some respite from the evening’s high jinks in...
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Review: Rama Nicholas in Death Rides a Horse | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … In the Texas town of Coyote, a horse quietly grazes, whinnies and then sings a song—a song about a rootin’ tootin’ cowgirl, a flamboyant dancer and He Who Comes to All. And...
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Review: Black Faggot | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Mustafa Nuristani writes … While saying ‘black faggot’ can be difficult for some to stomach, if you can get over it, you will enjoy the show. The theatre was filling up fast as the show debuted in...
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Review: Satan’s Finest | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Alana Mitchelson writes … Mitch Alexander and Jackson Voorhaar pitch themselves as die-hard metal heads, but I can’t say the material or quality of their performance had me entirely convinced. I walked...
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Review: Edge! | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Suzy Freeman writes … This year’s Melbourne Fringe sees Rachel Davis and Isabel Angus of Grisabel Comedy return to the stage in their new show, Edge!. Their last offering, All of the Things, was well...
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Countdown to a comedy catalyst
Wes Gardner is part of the team behind Slutmonster and Friends, a recent Melbourne International Comedy Festival success story. Here, he writes about being on the other side of the comedy curtain and...
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