
Running from February 23rd to March 21st, The Brisbane Comedy Festival happens at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Visit the Brisbane Comedy Festival website for full program details.

The Big Joke Comedy Festival is held in NSW town of Bangalow (10 minutes drive west of Byron Bay) from March 18th to the 21st. Visit the Big Joke website for full program details.

Running from March 24th to April 18th, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival takes over the city with performances by artists from everywhere! Visit the Melbourne International Comedy Festival website for full program details.

The 2010 Sydney Comedy Festival runs from the 19th of April until the 9th of May. Visit the Sydney Comedy Festival website for full program details.
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2010
- March
- February
- January
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2009
- December
- November
- October
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September
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2009 Melbourne Fringe Reviews
- Mark Watson – Work In Progress
- Arj Barker – Keeper or Crapper
- The Post Apocalyptic Users’ Guide
- Tom Ballard – Several Nights Only
- Monster of the Deep 3D
- Neanderthal Brow
- All The Single Ladies
- Jaymie Wilson Eats Babies
- 21 – ‘cause you’ll only turn it once
- Mr. Nick’s Theatre of the Damned
- Akmal in It’s Not My Fault
- Robot vs World
- Antics Shop
- Felicity Ward Reads from The Book of Moron
- The Bedroom Philosopher – Songs From the 86 Tram
- Jason Chong’s Why the Bloody Hell Aren’t Ya?
- Love in the Time of Milk Bars
- Centrelink The Musical
- Andrew McClelland’s Somewhat Accurate History of the Fall of the Roman Empire
- Passion of Crime
- There will be lol
- Hannah Gadsby – Kiss Me Quick I’m Full Of Jubes
- The Stevenson Experience & the Canberra Scene
- An evening at Comedy on the Green
- Short & Girly 2009
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2009 Melbourne Fringe Reviews
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August
- Fourth Colour Hammo this Wednesday
- Melbourne Fringe 2009 Calling for Volunteers
- Pod August Nights 2009
- Aussies doing well in Edinburgh
- A visit to The 41st Best Comedy Club Ever!
- Squirrel News August 2009
- Australians in Edinburgh 2009
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2009 Edinburgh Fringe Reviews
- Chauntecleer and Pertelotte (A Beasty-Babel-Fable)
- Brel at Breakfast
- Domestic Goddi 2: How to Cope
- Shitty Deal Puppet Theatre Company’s Oh! What a Shitty War
- All That Gomez
- LAWV Chillers: The End of the World
- Lady Garden
- Danielle Ward Lies
- Anna And Katy
- Tasty Treats
- Max and Ivan: Televisionaries
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!
- The Noise Next Door: Otherworld
- Shakespeare for Breakfast: A Midsummer Night’s Scream
- Scenes of a Sketchual Nature
- Scenes from communal living
- Laura Solon: Rabbit Faced Story Soup
- Tao – Samurai Magical Drumming
- The Girls of Slender Means
- MacAulay and Co
- 8 1/2 songs about love (and other myths)
- Lady Bug Warrior
- Booking dance festival
- Rosie Wilby: The Science of Sex
- Moll Flanders
- Kaguya Hime
- Twelve Angry Sketches
- Ali McGregor’s Late-nite Variety-Nite Night
- After the Bomb
- Princess Cabaret
- Me & Jezebel
- A Fistful of Snow
- Felicity Ward’s Ugly As A Child Variety Show
- The Big Comedy Breakfast
- Thankless Child
- Flanders and Swann: A Brand GNew AfterGNoon
- Bane
- Eurotrash
- Micky Flanagan
- The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Company Goes To Hollywood
- Terry Pratchett’s Lords And Ladies
- Neil Sinclair on Four Minute Warning
- July
- June
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May
- The Thick Of It – The Specials
- Comedy Obscura on Podcast
- Doin’ It For Dave (Grant)
- The Death Star Canteen reviewed
- Melbourne Fringe Festival Registrations Open
- Comedy Festival Roadshow – Pakenham
- New Era, New Opportunities at The Butterfly Club
- Class Clowns
- Mic in Hand Special Student Offer
- Adelaide Comedy Icon To Close Its Doors
- 2009 Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival
- Misfits of Comedy
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April
- MICF Roadshow in action
- Thank God You’re Here – Taping
- The Squirrel is now on Twitter
- Sydney Comedy Festival 2009
- 2009 TGS Awards Announced
- 2009 MICF Awards Announced
- The Groggy Squirrel Awards
- Squirrel News – Festival Edition
- Barry and Golden Gibbo Award Nominees Announced
- Have your say in The Groggy Squirrel Awards
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2009 MICF Reviews
- Sexual Perversity in Chicago
- Michael Williams – Nice ‘n’ Easel
- Mathew Kenneally on the Post Hope Express
- Mario Joyner
- Otis Lee Crenshaw Featuring Special Guest Rich Hall
- Would a Whore Bring Cake? A History of Pornography
- Celia Pacquola In Am I Strange?
- The Mad Max Remix
- Die Roten Punkte – Robot / Lion Tour 2009
- Putting Hats On Ducks
- The Soft Toy Mafia
- Storytellers’ Club
- Richard McKenzie in A Sting in the Tale
- Jim Jeffries – Hellbound
- Greg Fleet – Where’s My Pony?
- CJ Jenkins is a Freakshow
- Janelle Koenig – Swell
- Diggy Bones & The Tokens of Love: Return To Greatness
- The List Operators
- Lawrence Leung & Andrew McClelland – Time Ninjas
- Sarah Millican’s Not Nice
- Sammy J – 1999
- Felicity Ward’s Ugly as a Child Variety Show
- Bubblewrap and Boxes by Asking for Trouble
- Dave Bushell – Let The Kid Go
- Anyone For Tennis: Cutthroat
- Arj Barker’s Original Style Bits & Pieces
- Luke’s Got Cancer
- The Green Crusaders
- Asher Treleaven – Open Door
- Maeve Higgins – Kitten Brides
- Mike Wilmot
- Jamie Kilstein – There’s No God and That’s OK
- Des Bishop – Desfunctional
- I Can’t Sleep Featuring David O’Doherty & Maeve Higgins
- Tim Vine – Punslinger
- Denise Scott – Number 26
- Randy’s Postcards From Purgatory
- Sam Simmons in The Net starring Sandra Bullock
- Fed Square Safari
- Brendon Burns Returns
- Halley Metcalfe in My Two Cents
- Tom Ballard Is What He Is
- Potted Potter : The Unauthorised Harry Experience A Parody by Dan and Jeff
- Mother of the Year Featuring Nelly Thomas, Christine Basil & Catherine Deveny
- Comicide : Laugh Without Parole
- Collins Street
- Poppycock!
- Claire Hooper – Forget Your Troubles C’mon Get Hoopsy
- Rob Hunter: MOOSECOW
- David Quirk: Feeling Steve Breathe
- Kent Valentine: How To Love Everyone (Even the Arseholes)
- Eric – The One Man Sketch Comedy Show
- Justin Hamilton – Goodbye Ruby Tuesday With Hannah Norris
- Unspeakable 2009
- Mo the Plumber – A Tale of Two Leaks
- Beaconsfield: The Musical
- George McEncroe in The Georgina Monologues
- Spontaneous Broadway
- Xavier Michelides – The Post Apocalyptic User’s Guide
- World War Wonderful!
- Cath Styles in Vampire Teeth
- Courteney Hocking – Miss Right
- Jack Druce – Set Sail for Adventure
- Charlie Pickering – The Audacity of Frank
- Bart Freebairn in Doppleganger
- Op Shop Tour
- Apocalypse Soon!
- Andy Muirhead in Saturday Night At The Library
- Accidental Identity
- Jeff Hewitt – Reacharounds For The Soul
- Sarah Bennetto is Lucky
- Alison Bice in My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life
- Mark Watson in All The Thoughts I’ve Had Since I Was Born
- The Bedroom Philosopher – Songs From the 86 Tram
- Commercially Viable Comedian (Comes with Free Chicken Parma and a Pot!)
- The Pajama Men – Verses vs Verses
- Tommy Dassalo – Out at the Pictures
- The Kransky Sisters – Three Bags Full
- James Dowdeswell – No More Mr Nice Guy
- Check Out! by Polyglot Puppet Theatre
- Psychiatry, A Cure for Sanity?
- Bollocks Without Borders
- The Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour
- Hannah Gadsby and Monica Dullard in Lickety Split
- Keep Your Skirt On!
- Tale of the Golden Lease
- Celebrity Theatresports
- Raymond Crowe Live
- Returning Sudanese
- Eva Johansen Presents A Preamble
- The Consumption
- Tripod – Idio Clips
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March
- Impro hits Canberra
- Impro Melbourne Public Workshops Term 2
- Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure
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2009 Adelaide Fringe Reviews
- Jason Chong’s Why The Bloody Hell Aren’t Ya?
- Dave Bloustein : The Social Contract
- There’s Something About Fairy
- Danny McGinlay – Coming Soon
- Stevl Shefn’s little comidy spots
- Klunk
- Sharon Mahoney in ‘The Last Steel Body’
- Sort of the Rings
- Sound & Fury’s ‘Sherlock Holmes & the Saline Solution’
- Pete Monaghan – Monnerisms
- Fabien Clark’s Angry Spoon
- Sketch & Co
- Lost In Tram Stations
- It Came From Somewhere Else – The Improvised B-Movie Show
- Caddyshack & Other Dangerfields
- Being Rich
- Tom Gleeson Going at it with a Big Stick
- Gothic Punch & Judy
- Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones
- Gordon Southern: The Unofficial Annual
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February
- James Dowdeswell Sticks His Nose In
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2009 MICF Previews
- Michael Williams in Nice ‘n’ Easel
- Tom Ballard Is What He Is
- Justin Hamilton – Goodbye Ruby Tuesday with Hannah Norris
- Lawrence Leung & Andrew McClelland – Time Ninjas
- Comedy @ Trades 2009
- Jim Jeffries
- Karin Muiznieks – World War Wonderful
- Jim Lawson is Jim Jones MP in An Inconvenient Fruit
- Sammy J – 1999
- George McEnroe in The Georgina Monologues
- Dave Thornton – Never Sweat
- Trent McCarthy – Mo the Plumber and Returning Sudanese
- Would a Whore Bring a Cake: A History of Pornography
- Daniel Brader: Commercially Viable Comedian (Comes With Free Chicken Parma And A Pot)
- Courteney Hocking is Miss Right
- Festival Club first week line up
- Denise Scott – Number 26
- MICF Program Release
- Tripod Idioclips calling for submissions
- Melbourne Comedy Festival Short Film Festival Registrations
- The Misfits of Comedy
- Brisbane Comedy Festival On Sale Now!
- Full Melbourne Comedy Festival Program Online
- January
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2008
- December
- November
- October
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September
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2008 Melbourne Fringe Reviews
- Cleft Pigeon and the Black Hole of Truth
- Re: Tale
- Stephen K Amos Gets Next To You
- Talk to me when you’re dead
- Night of the Devil Zombies
- Sondheim UnScripted
- Op Shop Tour of Melbourne
- Mathew Kenneally’s Ill Thought Through Plan for the World
- Dwayne Robbins’ Inspiration Hour
- Craig Annis in The Begetting of a Gallant Heart
- Today in One Hour
- The ‘G’ in Goth, the C##t in Homewares
- The Birdmann
- Ca Va?
- Fourplay
- Nicky Talacko in It’s For You!
- Mysteries of the Convent
- DIE ROTEN PUNKTE – SUPER MUSIKANT
- Nick Cody in I Know Nathan Schradle…(and Cory Earhart too)
- Give That
- Celia Pacquola in Am I Strange?
- Awesome!!
- Club XX
- Felicity Ward’s Ugly As a Child Variety Show
- Harley Breen – Where The Wild Things Were
- Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams
- Eric
- Beaconsfield The Musical
- Kale Bogdanovs is Cultured
- Spontaneous Broadway
- 2008 Melbourne Magic Festival Reviews
- The Anarchist’s Guild Social Committee
- Grab it by the Short and Girlies!
- New Channel 31 Show Fundraiser
- 2008 Melbourne Fringe
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2008 Melbourne Fringe Reviews
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August
- Rod Quantock – First Man Standing
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2008 Edinburgh Fringe Reviews
- Teddy Bares
- David O’Doherty – Let’s Comedy
- Jo Caulfied – Two Faced Bitch?
- The Odd Squad
- Wendy Wason – Things I didn’t know I didn’t know
- Lady Garden
- Greg Fleet – Secrets and Lies
- Gamarjobat – The Western
- Fuzzy Logic
- A Brief History of Scotland – We Done Loads
- Craig Hill Makes You’re Whole Week
- Grease Lightin Drag Show
- Faulty Towers – The Dining Experience
- Damian Callinan in Mmm…They’re Small
- Jarlath Regan in Relax The Cax
- Global Warming is Gay
- Plague! The Musical
- The Butler Did It – The Musical
- Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Lynn Ferguson – The Plan
- The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Andy Zaltzman boldly unbuttons the cloak of civilisation
- International Stand Up
- A Guide to Sexual Misery
- Sean Choolaburra – Live and Deadly
- Mort
- The Clean (as possible) Comedy Show
- The Shitty Deal Puppet Theatre Company’s Complete Guide to the Arts
- Shelley Cooper – Britishness
- The Sushi Tap Show
- 66a Church Road – A Lament Made of Memories and Kept in Suitcases by Daniel Kitson
- Adams and Rea
- Janey Godley – Domestic Godley
- Jon Richardson – Dogmatic
- Watson and Oliver
- Richard Herring, The Headmaster’s Son
- Arnold Brown Presents Happiness: The Search Continues
- John Hegley – Beyond Our Kennel
- Dan Antopolski Penetrating Gaze
- Why we ate Cliff Richard
- Paul Kerensa in iPaul: The Great Playlist Challenge
- Richard Sandling in VHS 3: Video Nasty
- Sheality
- The Americans
- Liz Bentley-On-Sea
- Edinburgh-On-Sea
- Circus Oz 30th Birthday Bash
- The Crazy Japanese Sit-Down Comedy Show
- Wyrd Sisters
- The Chlomondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs present Dancing on Your Grave
- The Riot Showgrrrls Club
- Richard Herring is The Headmaster’s Son
- Aeneas Faversham Forever
- The Honourable Men of Art
- Mould and Arrowsmith : A Sketch Show in PowerPoint
- Old Rope In The Courtyard
- Andrew Bird : This Is Ten Years From Now
- Return of The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
- Tim Minchin – Ready For This?
- Surviving Spike
- Jim Jeffries – Hammered
- Simon Munnery’s AGM 2008
- 1000 Years of German Humour
- Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late But Live
- Ivan Brackenbury’s Hospital Radio Christmas Show
- July
- June
- May
- April
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March
- A word or two about flyering
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2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival Reviews
- Every Film Ever Made
- Greatness Thrust Upon Them
- Sam Wills – The Boy With Tape on His Face
- 78% Honesty
- Tommy Dassalo – Viewmaster
- Hot Pink Bits Rides Again
- Scrabble Unscripted
- Touching The Albatross
- The Delusionists in Everything that Ever Happened, Ever
- Creative Space
- Mathew Kenneally’s Ill Thought Through Plan for the World
- The Ballad of Rodger and Grace
- Fletcher Jones -The Life and Times Thereof
- Glenn Wool – Promises Promises
- Antti Hakala – Arctic Comedy
- David O’Doherty – It’s David O’Doherty Time
- Frank Woodley – Possessed
- Josh Thomas – The Adventures of Josh Thomas and the World’s Greatest Love Machine
- Daniel Townes – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
- David Quirk – Kathleen Grace
- Josie Long – Trying is Good
- Claire Hooper – Storybook
- Courteney Hocking – Mixing Pop and Politics
- The Ghosts of Ricketts Hill – A Rock and Roll Comedy Adventure
- Cinder-effin-rella
- Andrew McClelland’s Guide To Being A Modern Gentleman
- Bill Hicks – Slight Return
- Little Howard and the Magic Pencil of Life and Death
- Kent Valentine – A Fistful of Rainbows
- Nick Sun – Fisting the Soul
- Fox Klein – I’m Telling You For The First Time… Again
- Geraldine Quinn – Dumb Things
- Aesop’s Fables
- Dave Callan in Daylight Savings for the Doomsday Clock
- The Axis of Awesome Comeback Spectacular
- Julia Sutherland in Word
- Josh Earl in Where Did I Come From?
- Nina Conti – Complete and Utter Conti
- Wil Hodgson – Straight Outta Chippenham
- Weird Science (What the bleep does God know?)
- Eine Kleine Storytime (A Little Bit of Storytime)
- COMICIDE: Death by Funny
- The Storytellers’ Club
- The Jinglists
- Can I Briefly Talk To You About The Point of Life? – Mark Watson
- Beauty and the Beast by Alpha Shows
- Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams
- Sam Simmons – Where Can I Win A Bear Around Here?
- Daniel Kitson – The Impotent Fury of the Privileged
- Sam Bowring – More Irrelevant Bullshit
- Justin Hamilton – The Killing Joke
- Asher Treleaven – Cellar Door
- Danny McGinlay – Coming Soon
- Al Pitcher – Idiot Wind
- Dave Thornton – Info
- Dude, Where’s My Chromosome?
- Alien Sex Party
- Sucker Punch: They Never Saw It Coming
- Illusionarium! starring Ellis and Webster
- Damian Callinan calls Last Drinks
- Greg Fleet – Secret American
- Charlie Pickering – Thirteen Ducks
- Reginald D Hunter
- Dave Bushell in The Struvvell Bushell
- Rod Quantock – 2050AD The Musical
- Evan Jones : I Want To Be a Mokbel
- Kristen Schaal – As You Have Probably Never Seen Her Before
- John Moloney – Only Moloney
- Luke & Wyatt – We’ve Got a Certificate
- Aurora Kurth in take the L out of Lover
- Dean Eizenberg – Sell Out
- The Comedy Zone
- Pappy’s Fun Club
- Kate McLennan in The Enthusiasts
- Phil Nichol – Hiro Worship
- The Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour
- Vote For Pedro : My Life In T Shirts
- My Year Without Sex
- The Birdmann in Episodes of Significant Timing
- Terri Psiakis Has Pending Nuptials
- Celia Pacquola in Hating Alison Bice
- The Zinger Machine
- Tearing Up The Social Fabric
- Yianni in Maybe You’d Like To Teach The Class
- Primrose Hill and Kissing For Australia
- Shout Hallelujah : CMon Get Happy
- Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
- Extreme Blonde
- Adam Rozenbachs in Traces Of Nut
- Beautiful People Don’t Travel Economy starring Robert Yule
- Pirated! by Sweet ‘n’ Sour Circus
- Dimboola
- Pig Island – Simply Fancy
- Unspeakable 2008
- Anyone For Tennis? – Take Your Time
- Circus Ringbarkus – Walkies on the Wild Side!
- Trent McCarthy is Turning Sudanese
- Fear of a Brown Planet
- Fran and Roxanne – Room for Rent
- Struth
- Tripod
- Dolls, Doves and a Diva
- Fiona O’Loughlin
- Comedy Club for Kids
- Bec Hill in If You Can Read This My Cape Fell Off
- Andrea Gibbs is Starkers
- Simon Pampena in The Maths Olympics
- Cinema Fiasco
- Give My Regards to Broady – Four Kids who’ve Reached the End of the Line
- Zombie Songs Ate My Brain
- Class Clowns Grand Final
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February
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2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival Previews
- Nik Coppin – Stuff
- Simon Palomares – My Two boys
- Tom Gleeson – Tom-A-Thon
- Charlie Pickering – Thirteen Ducks
- Busting Out
- Extreme Blonde
- Tommy Dassalo – Viewmaster
- Steele Saunders – Falling Up
- Xavier Michelides – Alien Sex Party
- Kate McLennan – The Enthusiasts
- Pappy’s Fun Club
- Sharyn Booth – Dude, Where’s My Chromosome?
- Sam Simmons – Where Can I Win a Bear Around Here
- Justin Hamilton – The Killing Joke
- Dave Bushell – The Struvvel Bushell
- Sammy J In The Forest of Dreams
- Adam Rozenbachs in Traces of Nut
- Janet McLeod
- The Zinger Machine
- David Quirk – Kathleen Grace
- Phil Nichol – Hiro Worship
- Mandy Nolan – She’ll Be Right
- Unspeakable
- Pirated!
- New Comedy Room for Melbourne
- Brisbane gets a dose of Festival Spirit
- Comedy Fest Program
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2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival Previews
- January
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2007
- December
- November
- October
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September
- Fringe Show Preview : A Record Or An OBE
- MICF Registrations Open
- New York comes to Melbourne
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2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival Reviews
- Intimate Apparel
- Nick Sun in Lost and Found in the Spaces…
- Mathew Kenneally for Parliament?
- Tyrannosaurus Sex
- The House of Anomalous
- Geraldine Hickey in Miss Guided
- Hospitality – The Musical
- ReEducating Rita
- Fear of a Brown Planet
- Every Film Ever Made
- Was It a Cat I Saw?
- Who The Hell Is Elle Sejean??
- How To Rig an Election
- Justin D Lodge in Why I Lived the Life of a Homeless Vagabond & other stories
- The Nancy Brown Show
- Life Spam: The Life and Times of Em O’Loughlin
- Tastes Funny – A Gondo Production
- Tommy Little – Call Me
- Month of Sundays
- Funny as a Brain Tumour
- Yana Alana and tha Paranas in BITE ME
- A Record Or An OBE
- The Answer
- Wendy Little in Helmet Hair
- Harry & Me
- Grandpa Sol and Lily’s Grandma Rosie
- Lawrence Mooney – Where To?
- Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance
- 2007 Fringe Awards
- Oh Snap!!! First Birthday
- Yes Virginia, There is Comedy in Canberra
- The Chaser’s War on Ratings
- Who wants to be a Moosehead?
- Dancing with Comedians
- Young Blood Comedy Tour
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August
- Stand Up For Your Rights
- Comedy Fundraiser
- Kitson to return to Melbourne for Arts Festival
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2007 Edinburgh Fringe
- The Naked Comedy Showcase
- Psister Psycho
- anthology07
- Janice Phayre: With Occassional Showers
- Sista She and the House of Holy Bootay
- Take a Whiff …of Turpentine
- Greg Fleet with Mick Moriarty in Fleetwood Mick
- VHS 2: Planet of the Tapes
- Xenu is Loose…The Musical
- Shakespeare Bingo featuring ‘A Comedy of Errors’
- Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Orgasm – The Musical
- Moby Dick! The Musical
- The Importance of Shoes
- Vacant Posession
- Find Me A Primitive Man
- The Changeling
- Bonny & Read
- Tripod
- Abi Roberts Gets Her Hits Out
- The Dating Game
- Paper Monkeys in Legends
- Our Country’s Good
- Jihad – The Musical
- All the Daily Mail Writers Must Die
- Why You’re Fat And Ugly And Everybody Hates You!
- Robin Hood and the Witness Protection Programme
- The Absinthe Monologues
- Score (Terre d’Arčne)
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Amused Moose Comedy’s Hot Starlets 2007
- Adam Hills in Joymonger
- Wormholes and Arseholes
- The Electric Cabaret
- Rachel Trachtenburg’s Morning Show
- Joanna
- Isabel Fay in Altar Ego
- The hastily put together impro comedy show
- Shitty Deal Puppet Theatre Company’s Complete History of Oppressed People Everywhere
- Ella, Marilyn, Marlene & Me
- Ballooney Tunes
- Smothered in Skin
- GAME?
- Andrew McClellands’s Mix Tape
- Alba Flamenca
- The Butler Did It
- The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players in The Complicated Life
- Belly of a Drunken Piano
- My Filthy Hunt
- Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Crave
- Light, Shade, Lemonade
- Little Howard And The Magic Pencil Of Life And Death
- Waiting for Groucho
- What The Butler Saw
- Danton’s Death
- The Innuendo Show
- Wil Hodgson – Straight Outta Chipenham
- Johnson and Boswell – Late But Live
- Andy Zaltzman
- Markus Birdman – Son Of A Preacher Man
- Luke Wright, Poet & Man
- The if.comedy Award Nominees Announced
- Richard Herring – Oh Fuck, I’m 40!
- Andrew Lawrence – Social Leprocy For Beginners and Improvers
- Aussie takes out top honours
- The Book Club – All New Fighting Years
- John Hegley : Letters to an earwig
- July
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June
- Darwin Fringe Festival – Librarian Idol
- Darwin Fringe Festival
- Miss (you) Melbourne
- Cracked Up Comics
- An Essay in Comedy Storytelling
- The Impro Cave at Don’t Tell Tom
- Nana’s Cardigan at The Spanish Club
- PJ O’Briens
- Impro Cave
- Squirrel News – June 07
- June Jaunts
- TREV Campus Comedy Competition
- Karin Muiznieks
- Richard Herring – Someone Likes Yogurt
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May
- Extras – Series 2
- Daniel Moore
- Artist Registrations for Fringe
- Grumpy Old Women Live
- Comedy @ Spleen
- Lenny Bruce
- Free Fringe Forums
- The Groggy Squirrel Readers’ Award
- Strain Your Gherkins – Ethel Chop’s Guide to Living in a Modern World (as dictated to Andrea Powell)
- The Groggy Squirrel Readers’ Choice Award
- Comedy @ Trades Hall
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April
- The Groggy Squirrel Critics’ Award
- MICF Awards Announced
- Melbourne Fringe Festival – Festival Hub
- Barry Awards Nominations Announced
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2007 Melbourne Comedy Festival Reviews
- For we are Young and Free
- Strangelove the Musical
- Bum Chin the Musical
- The First Step on a Tram is Hell
- Puppet Up!
- Lou Pardi in a Brief History of the Stapler and Other Office Tools
- Fiona O’Loughlin
- Science-ology
- Hooray For Everything in Accept the Taxi Drivers
- Danny McGinlay’s Star Spangled Bender
- Mark Watson – I’m Worried that I’m Starting to Hate Almost Everyone in the World
- Stephen K Amos – More of Me
- One Man Star Wars
- The Sound of Music Drag Show
- Tommy Dassalo : The Third Guy
- Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance
- Pastor Michael’s Second Coming (& His Wife Comes Too)
- Claire Hooper – Show Girl
- Justin Kennedy – Ladies…?
- Best of the Edinburgh Festival
- Ben Payne in His Yellow Ute
- Ed Byrne in Standing Up and Falling Down
- Wellington Who
- Jackie Loeb in Things I Can’t Talk About
- Evan Jones: Extravaganza, Pandemonium and Comic Spectacular
- Mr Bleak and the Etryop
- Dave Bushell in Dirt, War… & Why I Don’t Eat the Fishies
- Josh Earl is a Librarian
- Laughapalooza
- Justin Hamilton in Three Colours Hammo : Melbourne
- Kent Valentine in What Would Batman Do?
- Adam Hills – Joymonger
- Sammy J – Cyclone
- David O’Doherty is my name
- 2Night Live
- Andrew McClelland’s Somewhat Ambitious Solution for Making the World a Better Place (in general)
- Tripod in How to Train an Attack Dog from Scratch
- Geraldine Quinn in SEXDEATHBOWIE
- Christina Adams – Semi Rural
- Rod Quantock – “Anconvenientlie”
- Josh Thomas – Please Like Me
- Andy Muirhead in Silly Rabbit
- Corinne Grant : Have My Stuff
- Jason Byrne : Sheep For Feet and Rams For Hands
- Mark Butler : It’s Not Big, It’s Not Clever
- Phil Nichol is The Naked Racist
- Sam Simmons and the Sex and Science of Boredom
- Josie Long – Kindness and Exuberance
- Daniel Kitson – It’s the Fireworks Talking
- Damian Callinan in Sportsman’s Night
- Amelia Jane Hunter is Keith Fipp (The Girl from Belkendowns Flat)
- Rhod Gilbert – Knocking on Heaven’s Door
- Dave Bloustien – Beastly
- Dave Callan in Dance of the Flame Retardant Monkey
- Peter Berner in Bernerland
- Charlie Pickering – Impractical Jokes
- Dolly Goes Down on the Farm
- Michael Chamberlin – Buddha & Bluey & Me
- Geraldine Hickey – Trucker’s Daughter
- The Debutante Diaries
- Dave Quirk – I Don’t Want to Tell Jokes
- The Receipt
- Keating!
- Oliver Clark – By Request Only
- Dave Jory is Polished
- Conservatism
- Alison Bice in The Wizard of Bice
- Jeremie Bracka in: “Enough About Me…Let’s Talk About Jew!”
- Gerard McCulloch is just Gerard McCulloch
- Richard McKenzie is in Mint Condition
- Life of Bryan II – Lessons in Life
- Alec Fry and Doug Chappel are Re-Educating the Planet!
- Tripod – Idioclips
- Local Laughs
- Comedy Showbag
- Daniel Townes
- Lawrence Mooney – Where To?
- Comedian Sandwich Delicious
- LoveLife
- Harley Breen in The Kingswood and I
- Cath Jamison in The Secret Life of a Woman
- Men of Steel on Holiday
- Ramblings : Second Movement
- Adam Richard X
- Fiona Scott-Norman: The Needle And The Damage Done
- Nick Sun: Sacrificial Clown
- Dave Thornton – Euromission
- Going Halves
- Introducing Beau Heartbreaker
- Xavier Michelides in What To Do When The Zombies Attack
- Die Roten Punkte
- Fox K is Looking for Emily
- Justin Hamilton – Three Colours Hammo #2 Laugh & Death
- Can’t Afford a Real Show
- The Beautiful Losers in Fresh Filth
- Peter Helliar – Hellraiser
- Dan Willis -Ferris Bueller’s Way of
- Nik Coppin – Redblak
- Jordan Raskopoulos’ Dominant Claw
- Raw Comedy National Final 2007
- Tim Minchin – So F**king Rock
- The Honourable Men of Art (Without Alun Cochrane)
- Sam Bowring: Small Animals I Have Known
- Whodunnit Live Radio Plays
- 160 Characters
- Justin Hamilton in Three Colours Hammo : Hamilton and his Sisters
- Daniel Moore – Something Better
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March
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2007 Melbourne Comedy Festival Previews
- Lawrence Leung
- Dolly Goes Down on the Farm
- Can’t Afford A Real Show
- Justin Hamilton – Three Colours Hammo
- Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
- Michael Chamberlin – Buddha & Bluey & Me
- Introducing Beau Heartbreaker
- The Sound of Music Drag Show
- Best of Edinburgh Fest
- Alison Bice in The Wizard of Bice
- Janet A McLeod
- Tommy Dassalo – The Third Guy
- Geraldine Hickey – Trucker’s Daughter
- Triple Trouble
- Gabriel Rossi, The Tarantella Feller
- Damian Callinan in Sportsman Night
- Josh Thomas – Please Like Me
- Alan Brough in Top Town
- Vanessa Bennett is Bodysnatcher
- Lou Pardi in A Brief History of the Stapler…And Other Office Tools
- Dave Thornton – Euromission
- Nik Coppin
- Justin Kennedy
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2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival
- Tahir
- Wrong and Broken – Hannah Gadsby
- Akmal Saleh
- Adelaide has been Backyard Blitzed
- Fringe Festival Opening Ceremony
- Danny Bhoy
- Tripod – How To Train An Attack Dog From Scratch
- Best of the Fest Late Show at the Gov
- Tim Minchin – So Rock
- The Umbilical Brothers – The Rehearsal
- Mark Butler: It’s Not Big. It’s Not Clever
- Go Faster Stripe!
- Cracker Comedy Festival – Painful Truths
- Billy Crystal – 700 Sundays
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2007 Melbourne Comedy Festival Previews
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February
- 2007 Comedy Festival Guide Online
- Icarus Rising – True Tales from the Moomba Birdman Rally
- Green Room Awards
- The Comedy Housewarming
- Breaking the Tonne
- Tony Hancock
- Comedy Zone Announced
- Nik Coppin
- The Oyster Club
- Tim Minchin
- Q & A with Sammy J
- Anyone For Tennis?
- Adelaide is Freakin’ Funny
- Laughing at Midsumma
- January
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2006
- December
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November
- Goodbye – Lano & Woodley
- Victor Borge
- Qi – Series One
- The 6TH Annual Armidale Women’s Comedy Festival
- The Vault Turns One
- Death Becomes Him
- Stewart Lee
- Squirrel News
- Belinda Emmett loses battle with cancer
- Comedic Programming on C31
- David Strassman’s ‘Get Chuck’d’ Tour
- Die Roten Punkte’s “Die Roten Fahrten”
- Building your Glasshouse on the sand
- October
-
September
-
2006 Fringe Festival Reviews
- Fitting Rooms
- ...and now for the news
- Marcus Green v’s the poor
- Sissies and Sluts present BARRIE
- VIP in Lies, Non-Sense and Celebrity Chefs
- Sammy J – Cyclone
- No One Lived Happily Ever After
- Flick
- The Short Bus To Wrongtown
- The Squirth presents – Sherlock the Vampire Slayer
- The Debutante Diaries
- Tommy Dassalo – The Universe is Parmagiana
- The Bedroom Philosopher – On the Edge of my Bed
- Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots)
- The Tickle Club
- The DeadsHit
- Science-ology
- Carl Barron – Walking Down The Street
- Stephen K Amos
- Coming Clean
- I Can’t Help Myself
- Mule
- Luke Whitby’s Hellfire Sale
- Hitchcock and Herrmann
- The Caravan of Love presents – Kunst Ist Scheisse
- A Little Bit Like
- Something Drastic
- The Chinese Art of Placement
- Judgemental
- Mr Al and Mr Nick’s Cell Block Party
- Split
- Debris
- Hunting with the Colonel
- What Me Worry
- A Son of Your Own
- Love at First Sight
- Mayhem in Milan
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Introducing Beau Heartbreaker
- David Heffron – Nerd Alert
- How do You Like Your Eggs
- Bodysnatcher
- The Town Bikes present MILK
- Cheek to Cheek
- I’d Like a Nicer Planet Please
- Mz Josephine’s Amazing Holiday
- Fringe Festival Awards
- Squirrel News
- The end of an Exford
- Comedy, C’Mon Down – A year of laughs at Cue
- Melbourne Fringe Festival Previews
- What You Love
- Nuts about Stephen K Amos
- End Quote
- Squirrel News
- Steele Saunders
- Launch of The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival 2006
- The Old Fire Station Café Gallery
- 30 Days without a Mobile Phone!
- Community Comedy on the Box
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2006 Fringe Festival Reviews
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August
- Demolition Deb
- Sarah Silverman – Jesus is Magic
- Rats and Cats
- The Eddies Announced
- Aussie Success in Edinburgh
- Flacco – Releasing the Imbecile Within
- Kinky Politics
- A Seemingly-Impossible Feat
- Squirrel News
- Groucho Marx
- Sharyn Booth
- MIFF Comedy Night
- Pod August Nights
- Technically Techno Phobic
-
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006
- Adrenaline
- Allegiance – Winston Churchill and Michael Collins
- Brassens Et La Femme
- Tarts and Knickers
- Tim Minchin – So Rock
- Little Shop Of Horrors
- The Butler did it?
- Simon Munnery’s AGM
- Godspell
- Come On, Jeeves
- Delicious
- Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden present a Century of Songs
- Wax! The Musical
- The ‘It’ Girls
- Shakespeare for Breakfast
- Rabbit
- Invisible Ink
- Comic Irrigation
- The Edinburgh Literary Bus Tour
- The Comedy Tour of Edinburgh
- Putting It Together
- Living With The Lies We Told
- Boothby Graffoe with Nick Pynn: Release u win tin
- The Libertine
- Bach for Breakfast
- Corinne Grant – Nice Friendly Lady Hour
- Johnny And the Bomb
- Paint the Town
- Mount Rushmore’s Babes
- Get Up, Stand Up
- The Tempest
- The Improvability Drive
- The Canterbury Tales
- Playing with Myself
- Here Goes
- Bridget Christie: The Cheese Roll
- Bouncy Castle Hamlet
- Black Comedy
- Bite Size
- Flip 15 – 15
- Danny Bhoy
- Ali McGregor’s Opera Burlesque
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July
- Venue News
- The Impro Cave
- Fox K
- Get Up, Stand Up
- Pop Quiz
- Ben Elton – Get a Grip
- Nuts About Corinne Grant
- End Quote
- Squirrel News
- In The Beginning…Uhmm… @ The International Puppet Carnival
- Puppet Burlesque @ The International Puppet Carnival
- International Puppet Carnival
- Peter Sellers
- Gunn Comedy
- What Are You Doing With Your Life?
- Nuts about Bryan Roberts
- End Quote
- Lily Tomlin Tours
- Timor Leste Dairy Project
- Aussies invade Scotland
- Lynda Gibson
- Duff
- Urban Bar Comedy
- VIVA AUSTRALIA!
- Hannah Gadsby
- Cut & Paste Impro’s 2nd Birthday
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June
- End Quote
- Kenny Everett
- Bad Ass Comedy
- A Perrier by any other name…
- Nuts about Sammy J
- Three Years of Laughing at The Local
- End Quote
- Squirrel Update
- WC Fields
- “The Popular Alternative” by Man Bites God
- Scott Steensma
- Williamstown Literary Festival
- Across the Tasman in Four and a Bit Hours
- Campus Comedy Competition – Victoria University Heat
- Australian Dependant
- Loungeroom Fancies
- May
-
April
-
2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Reviews
- Fox K – I’m telling you for the first time
- D-Cuppetry – Dance of the D-Cups
- Zack Adams – A Complete History of Zack Adams
- The Lion, The Bitch and The Closet
- Hoodwinked
- Danny Bhoy
- VIP – Lies, Non-Sense And Celebrity Chefs
- The Dead Set
- Bruno Lucia – Stand Up And Rock
- Christina Davis – The Secret Diaries of Unnamed Fraser
- Justin Hamilton – Smash!
- Adam Hills – Characterful
- Dr. Earnest Parrott presents Demetri Martin
- Hard to Swallow
- Evan Jones: Seven True Stories and One Massive Lie
- Scared Weird Little Guys in Mindless Stupidity for the Thinking Person
- Greg Fleet – Word Up
- Sam Simmons’ Tales from the Erotic Cat.
- Phil Kay – Gimme Your Left Shoe
- David O’Doherty – Grown Up
- The Wrong Night
- Spymonkey’s Cooped
- Miriam and The Monkfish
- Burlesque Idol
- Michael Chamberlin and The Ten Commandments
- Stephen K Amos
- Dylan Moran
- Damian Callinan is Babysitting
- Helen Thorn is Arty Farty
- I Heart Racism
- Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots)
- The Ang Fang Quartet present Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush”
- Penny Tangey in “Kathy Smith Goes To Maths Camp”
- Gabriel Rossi – Gift of the Gab
- Call Girls
- Polycomic
- Lawrence Leung : The Marvelous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy
- The Sunshine Factory (Part Two)
- Glenn Wool – Where Is Hell?
- Levelland
- Charlie Pickering – Auto
- Justin Kennedy – Beelzebuzz
- Birdmannifesto: A Night of the Birdmann
- Fran And Roxanne Are Best Friends
- Akmal Saleh – Akmal
- Sam Bowring – The Wishes of Children
- Family Ties
- Rachel Berger – Loose Cannon
- Tim Minchin
- Andrew McClelland’s Mix Tape
- Corinne Grant – Faking It
- Danny Alder – Get Behind Me Elephant
- Tanya Losanno in Risotto Sans Frontieres
- Tripod in Self Saucing
- Be My (Kent) Valentine
- Geraldine Quinn – Bad Ambassador
- Up There, Cal Wilson
- Tommy Dean
- Love Triangle
- Sammy J’s 55 Minute National Tour
- Lano & Woodley – Goodbye
- Jim’s Comedians present “Smorgasbord”
- The Kransky Sisters – Heard it on the Wireless
- Claire Hooper – Oh
- Natives Strikin’ Blak
- Fiona O’Loughlin
- Rod Quantock’s Australia!
- Simon and George Live At The Palms
- $6.99kg
- Kung Fu Dapu (Pronounced Du-Pwa of Course)
- Harley Breen – Son of a Preacher Man
- Men of Steel
- Kai Tier is Childhead
- The Inaugural Golden Guy Fawkes Awards
- Adam McKenzie in “I Know You Are, But What Am I”
- Cliffy is Relaxed and Comfortable
- Damian Callinan has Spaznuts
- Laughapoolooza
- Richard McKenzie in DIGGER
- Earl Okin
- Dolores – Happiness Is A Warm Ukulele
- Dan Willis – Radiohead
- Anthony Morgan
- My Brother and I are Porn Stars
- Andy Muirhead is…Perky?
- Man Bites God – Choking Hazard
- Adam Vincent
- Comedy Zone
- Lehmo – Christmas in Baghdad
- ElbowSkin: Comedy Gondola
- Tom Gleeson – Non Stop Tom
- Comrade Consumer
- Fabulous Adam Richard
- 2006 Vena Und Schnitzel’s World Calypso Experience Tonight
- Arj Barker – Unmitigated
- The 2006 National Grand Final of Class Clowns
- The Renegades of Folk are The Renegades of Folk
- Eye Candy
- Life of Bryan
- It’s A Mother!
- Celebrity Theatresports
- Insert Name Here
- Something In the Water
- Nick Sun – Blood On The Yolks In The Key Of Owls
- Ramblings
- Christina Adams Alive in Madagascar
- Upfront 12
- Raw Comedy Final 2006
- Scrabble Unscripted
- The Nice Guys in “You Say Potato, I Say Die!”
- Jeremy Elwood – Rock plus Roll
- Yianni in Yianni’s Head
- The Umbilical Brothers – The Rehearsal
- Score Reloaded
- Room Time
- The House of Havoc
- Til Death Us Do Part
-
2006 Comedy Festival Preview Part 2
- A Complete History Of Zack Adams
- Adam Hills Characterful
- Andy Muirhead is… Perky?
- Call Girls
- Christina Adams: Alive in Madagascar
- David O’Doherty – Grown Up
- Evan Jones: Seven True Stories and One Massive Lie
- Fox K – I’m telling you for the first time
- Fran and Roxanne are Best Friends
- Get Behind Me Elephant
- Helen Thorn is Arty Farty
- Kieran Butler claims Collingwood ruined my life
- Rachel Berger – Loose Cannon
- Sam Simmons – Tales from the Erotic Cat
- Say Goodbye to Your Beauty Sleep – Late Night Entertainment
- Smorgasbord
- Terror-Fi
- The Lion, Bitch and The Wardrobe
- The Renegades of Folk are The Renegades of Folk
- Tripod is Self Saucing
-
2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Reviews
-
March
-
2006 Comedy Festival Preview Part 1
- $6.99kg
- Comrade Consumer
- Elbowskin: Comedy Gondola
- Eye Candy
- Fabulous Adam Richard
- Family Ties
- Four People And One Lamington
- Geraldine Hickey in One Week in Paradise
- I Heart Racism
- I know you are but what am I?
- Justin Hamilton: Smash!
- Justin Kennedy: Beelzebuz
- Lano & Woodley – Goodbye
- Love Triangle
- Mark Watson: 50 years before Death and the Awful Prospect of Eternity
- Matt Elsbury is mAD – Matt vs the Advertising World
- Michael Chamberlin and the Ten Commandments
- Polycomic
- Risotto Sans Frontieres
- Sammy J’s 55 minute National Tour
- Scrabble Unscripted
- Up There, Cal Wilson
- Yianni in Yianni’s Head
- A Tangled (world wide) Web of Intrigue
- Renee Turner
- Jesus
- Kent Valentine
- Gracie Allen
- From Across the Herring Pond
- Stars Form To Create The Universe
- A Funny Thing Happened at Tropfest
- Who’s a Moosehead? – Richard McKenzie
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2006 Comedy Festival Preview Part 1
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February
- “Lolly Scramble – A Memoir of Little Consequence” – Tony Martin
- Dave Allen
- How To Write
- The Pink Horse of Whimsy
- In Review…
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- Nuts About Charlie Pickering
- So wrong it’s right again
- Pete Morley
- Nuts About Andrea Powell
- Scared Weird Little Guys
- Squirrel News
- Raw Power
- Keating!
- The Aristocrats
- The Vault
- Hobart Comedy Festival
- Grease Me Up
- From Across the Herring Pond
- Flann O’Brien
- What The Squirrel Saw
- Comedy on the box
- Adam Richard
- A Couple of Blaguards
- Who’s a Moosehead? – Damian Callinan
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2005
-
December
- Wilson Dixon
- White Collar Comedy
- What The Squirrel Saw
- Waiting For Guinness & The A to B Lectures
- Tim Minchin
- Three Vile Men
- The Ennio Morricone Experience
- The Cooking Show – Jimeoin and Bob Franklin
- Sydney Just Got A Whole Lot Funnier
- Squirrel News
- Spontaneous Broadway
- Ronald “Ronnie” Barker
- Oh Come All Ye Stressful ‘05
- Nuts About Justin Hamilton
- Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
- Matt vs The Music World 2005
- La Clique – A Sideshow Burlesque
- Jimeoin
- Jasper Carrot’s ‘Christmas Crackers’
- Helen Thorn
- Boytown Groupie
- 2005 In Review
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December
Tonights Gigs
Brisbane Comedy Festival (QLD)
Visit the Brisbane Comedy Festival website for full program details.
Sit Down Comedy Club (QLD)
Raw Comedy – Semi Final 1
Doors 7pm, show 8pm
The Brass Monkey (WA)
Willow (VIC)
Blackframes Comedy
This month’s theme is Promotion!
Featuring Anyone For Tennis & MC Lach Ryan.
8:30pm start, Free Entry!
The Death Star Canteen
MC: Dan Brader, Xander Allen, Spencer Hodges, Michael Connell, David Nash, Anyone For Tennis?, Alsadair Trembley-Birchall, Linda Beatty, Sonia Diorio, Zac Cooper & Ronny Chieng.
8pm
The Roxbury Hotel (NSW)
Comedy On The Rox
Kent Valentine, MC Amanda Gray, Jack Druce & Heat 7 of Quest for the Best
8pm, $15/$12
The Marion Hotel (SA)
Marion Wednesdays
8pm, $12
Brisbane Hotel (WA)
Free Love Impro @ Lazy Susans Comedy Den
Featurung Jimmy James Eaton, Sam Longley, Damon Lockwood, Ben Russell, Glenn Hall, Andrea Gibbsand all your other Big Hoo Haa favourites…
7:30pm, $5
Cue (VIC)
Old Mate Comedy
New and pro comics deliver their greatest hits as well as new favorites.
8pm, Free Entry!
Doors 7pm, show 8pm
This month’s theme is Promotion!
Featuring Anyone For Tennis & MC Lach Ryan.
8:30pm start, Free Entry!
MC: Dan Brader, Xander Allen, Spencer Hodges, Michael Connell, David Nash, Anyone For Tennis?, Alsadair Trembley-Birchall, Linda Beatty, Sonia Diorio, Zac Cooper & Ronny Chieng.
8pm
Kent Valentine, MC Amanda Gray, Jack Druce & Heat 7 of Quest for the Best
8pm, $15/$12
8pm, $12
Featurung Jimmy James Eaton, Sam Longley, Damon Lockwood, Ben Russell, Glenn Hall, Andrea Gibbsand all your other Big Hoo Haa favourites…
7:30pm, $5
New and pro comics deliver their greatest hits as well as new favorites.
8pm, Free Entry!
