5 good reasons to see Matt Harvey: Just for funny Podcast

1. The comedy podcast has been enjoying a successful run on iTunes for around a year and a half. So we know what we are doing.

2. Previous guests have had 5 star shows, award winning shows, and sell out shows. So this might be the best chance you get to see something new and exciting.

3. You love being the first to know about a thing. Our comedians are some of our favourite comedians you’ve never seen, but they are great.

4. Just for Funny is a podcast that presents snippets of the finest up and coming comedians we know of and presents them to you so you can take some of the guess work out of learning about new comedians. You can get a taste of the show on youtube so its not like you’re even taking a chance really. Go on and listen. Its a lot of fun.

5. We have gone to thousands of hours of open mic comedy. It can be a tough slog. We then filtered and distilled those hours down to these fine comedians. Don’t let us waste all those hours.

Matt Harvey & Marty Atta’s live podcast recording of Just For Funny is on Saturdays at The Tickle Pit

https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2017/shows/just-for-funny

5 Good Reasons to see Frenchy Unleashed

1      He kinda looks like Sid the Sloth from Ice Age. But with methier eyes.

2      He’s the self-proclaimed King of Tinder.

3      He used to be a teacher. If he fails at comedy he goes back to teaching at high school. For the sake of Australia’s future, you don’t want that to happen.

4      His teaching licence is actually suspended so the above scenario can’t happen.

5      He needs money for new crocs & a lava lamp.

For Information and tickets to see Frenchy Unleashed go to the MICF Website

https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2017/shows/frenchy-unleashed

FIVE GOOD REASONS TO SEE…THE JUNIOR MIGHTY LITTLE PUPPET SHOW!

1. It has puppets!

Like the title suggests The Junior Mighty Little Puppet Show has puppets in it…but these puppets are like nothing you’ve seen before.  This brand-new show is specifically designed for kids, but parents will be sure to have a brilliant time as well!

What’s unique about our puppets? They have been custom-built by the extremely talented people at The Puppet Workshop specifically for improvised puppetry.

After making their debut at last years’ Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a more adult orientated format, our puppets (called The Ritas) are thrilled to be back for MICF 2017.  The Ritas are brightly coloured and blank-faced, and we have large selection of eyes & noses that can be attached and removed to The Ritas whenever – and however – we want!

This means we can create new and exciting puppet characters for every performance.

2. Kids can create the characters!

That’s right, the Ritas were specifically created so new puppet characters could be created before each scene. In The Junior Mighty Little Puppet Show the audience will be able to see the characters built before their very eyes, and have the opportunity to vote on their favourite eyes and noses to create characters from!

Some lucky kids will even be able to put the eyes and noses right on to invent the new puppet faces. We wanted our puppets have the potential to be just as spontaneous as the scenes they will be in.

3. It’s a choose your own adventure style show

Not only does the audience play a role in creating the characters, you also get to choose which story you want to see through to the end! Audience members get to vote on which character’s story you want to see continue at each stage, and watch our improvisers build a narrative around that choice!

4. We have an amazing troupe of improvising puppeteers!

For this show we handpicked performers from the Melbourne Comedy and Improvisation community who have experience with puppetry.

It takes an intensely focused performer to improvise while operating a puppet and it takes a very humble, generous performer to improvise in a scene with one.

We’ve really lucked out.

For MICF 2017 we have: Amanda Knights, Caitlin Yolland, Corey Glamuzina, David Innes, Hallie Goodman, Jaime G. Cerda, Jaklene Vukasinovic, Petra Elliott and Scott McAteer

 

5. We have a sensational host!

Our amazing host Rob Lloyd has been working professionally as an actor, comedian & improviser for over 15 years.   Rob is also the star of the ABC Me educational adventure series Bertram Poppingstock: Problem Solver.  Rob is the Artistic Director of The Mighty Littles and is excited to host The Junior Mighty Little Puppet Show.

The Junior Mighty Little Puppet Show is on at The Melbourne Town Hall from April 1 at 2.15

https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2017/shows/the-junior-mighty-little-puppet-show

 

 

5 GOOD REASONS TO SEE YIANNI AGISILAOU IN THE UN-PINCHABLE PINK PEN

1 – You are (a) Male or (b) Female

Do you fall into one of these two groups?  If so, there will be much you’ll relate to in Yianni’s show. Of course, we live in post-gender 2017 so you may not be sure.  If unsure, merely locate your birth certificate or passport.  If neither of these are available, just check which toilet you usually use.  Oh, wait, maybe don’t do that.  Either way, book tickets immediately.

2 – You’ve been gender judged

Are you a lippy woman (one who speaks), a bit of a poof (thoughtful), bossy (assertive), a poof (teetotal), a lesbian (rejected a man’s advances), a poof (didn’t want to go to the strip club), a ball breaker (assertive), a poof (cried at something) or hysterical (assertive)?  Come along and see society’s double standards eviscerated for an hour.

3 – You think the AFLW is a great idea

If you’re the sort of open minded progressive who nodded knowingly, turned up to (and was possibly turned away from) Optus Oval for the first match and has a Daisy Pearce tattoo taking pride of place amongst your ‘woke as fuck’ sleeve, you’ll be sure to find many of your opinions validated at 8:30pm daily (not Wednesdays, 7:30pm on Sundays) at Trades Hall.

4 – You think the AFLW is a terrible idea.

If you’re the sort of retrograde traditionalist who tutted angrily, watched the first match on Channel 7 just to be able to call it ‘Year 9 standard rubbish’ and has a Dane Swan tattoo taking pride of place amongst your ‘political correctness gone mad’ sleeve, you’ll be sure to find your worldview challenged at 8:30pm daily (not Wednesdays, 7:30pm on Sundays) at Trades Hall.

5 – To find out why pink used to be a boy’s colour.

Pink as recently as the 1920s was considered a boy’s colour.  But the idea of gendered colours is ridiculous.  ‘Pink’ or ‘Blue’ is when a specific amount of light is reflected and absorbed by a surface.  It can’t mean anything except what we make it mean.  Which means that we can change it.  If you’re sick of young girls invisibly guided into the servitude of princess and fairydom, young boys having dancing ‘manned’ out of them and toy stores gender segregated like a 1950s Alabama bus come along and Rosa Parks your bum on a seat.

Yianni Agisilaou performs The Un-Pinchable Pink Pen at Trades Hall.

For tickets and more information see the Melbourne International Comedy Festival website:

5 Good Reasons to see Tessa Waters: Fully Sik

1. If you’ve had a shit day and need an explosion of joy and non-stop lols on your face

2. If you like sequins and dance floor bangers

3. If you wanna see your house party ‘adventure’ from last Saturday night played out on stage

4. If you wanna make out with me (*not during the show obvs, but like in life and stuff, whatever it’s cool..no biggie)

5. If you like comedy that feels like; eating a delicious cake, followed by excellent sex where it’s hot but you also laugh with each other and feel really cool, capped off with a tequila shot and a fun and consensual smack on the bum.

Tessa Waters performs Fully Sik at The Greek Centre

https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2017/shows/fully-sik

5 Good Reasons to see: Across Australia and More!

1. It’s a showcase. With a rotating line up of different comedians you can watch the show twice or more and it’ll always be different.

2. Speaking of different…Across Australia and More! features comedians from around the world (from Germany to China to NZ) as well as interstate and local comedians!

3. The show is produced by Gamze Kirik who previously produced the very successful Comedy From Around the World

4. A late one! A show that starts at 1030pm you know it’s for cool people. Also if you’re already seeing a show why not cap the night of with another?

5. The venue is at the downstairs at Speakeasy HQ, the beautiful home of Vaudeville theatre in Melbourne

Across Australia and More! is playing at Speakeasy HQ on Thurs, Fri & Sat nights from April 6

For tickets and more info, see the Melbourne International Comedy Festival website:

 https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2017/shows/across-australian-and-more