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.

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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.


The promotional material for Beautiful People Don’t Travel Economy lists a swag of potentially interesting characters that don’t make an appearance in the actual show. I am not sure when character comedian Robert Yule made the decision to make some drastic editing but I was disappointed that I didn’t get to meet Afghani women’s liberationist Fatima ‘Shiskebabs’ Streisand, Edward Johns ‘cross dressing’ over (who only travels spiritually) and Murray Muzza ‘guru-bagwani’ Jones the Cabby with more incense than road sense.

Instead we get to spend most of the evening with Alexis Van Air Bust, a wide-hipped wonder in the first-class cabin of Sleazy-Jet Airways. Alexis’s colleagues are a dowdy Russian and a wise-talking Springer-style soul sister. There is not much I enjoy more than a man in a dress making wise so naturally I really thought I would love this show. However, there just wasn’t enough substance here for Alexis to carry this one off.

Yule is a likeable entertainer; he’s quick-witted and not afraid to make some harsh but funny calls with audience members. But for us to stick with his character from beginning to end we really needed a story and more light and shade. There were definitely a few laughs throughout the show but overall the pace was just way too slow, this character-based comedy needed to be cracking along at a much greater speed,

I’m interested to see what Yule does next but at this stage I think he needs to get a few more flying miles up before Beautiful People gets off the ground.

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Tonights Gigs

Brisbane Comedy Festival (QLD)
Visit the Brisbane Comedy Festival website for full program details.
Raw Comedy – Semi Final 1
Doors 7pm, show 8pm
Laugh Resort Comedy Club
Visit their website for line up details.
8:30, $12/$10
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
Comedy On The Rox
Kent Valentine, MC Amanda Gray, Jack Druce & Heat 7 of Quest for the Best
8pm, $15/$12
Marion Wednesdays
8pm, $12
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!
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