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Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award Nominees

On Saturday night at the Hifi Bar Festival Club this years award Nominees were officially announced. Congratulations to all the nominees!

The Barry Award
Dave Gorman’s PowerPoint Presentation
Dr Brown – Befrdfgth
Felicity Ward – The Hedgehog Dilemma
Paul Foot – Still Life
Tim Key – Masterslut
Wil Anderson – Wilarious

The Golden Gibbo
Aunty Donna – In Pant Suits
Lessons with Luis – Luis Presents: Kidney Kingdom
Michael Williams – Mild Spectacular in 3D
Tie her to the Tracks! A Live Silent Film – Asher Treleaven, Celia Pacquola, Andrew McClelland, Sammy J & Adam McKenzie
WATSON! – Shakespeare Fight Club – Adam McKenzie, Tegan Higganbotham

 

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2012

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is finally here and Melbourne is rocking with laughter in every nook and cranny.  But “What shall I see?”, “Who’s Hot & Who’s Not?” and “Am I going to ever get any sleep?” I hear you ask, well the Squirrels are here to help. We will be posting reviews, every day and keeping you up with any news or changes in the programme. Don’t forget to check the 5 Good Reasons to see festival performers’ shows and our interviews with performers who also give their 5 Good Reasons at the end of the interviews.

Let us know what you are seeing or enjoying or any important news on Twitter and on our Facebook page and email us at Squirrels@squirrelcomedy.com with pictures of you with your favourite comedians or any great festival pics and we’ll post them in our Gig Pics.

Our exciting news is that throughout the festival we are posting the MICF Daily podcast on our front page. This will take the place of our Podpick during the Festival. The team from Friggen Podcasts are comedy geeks Mike Brown who interviews Festival comedians and his sidekick Evan who reads the MICF Daily News. It will only take about 10 or so minutes out of your busy day and is packed with information.

Have a fabulous festival and don’t forget to eat some healthy food occasionally!

See you around the festival!

Backstage at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Melbourne collective Little Picture Box have been busy producing “Backstage” at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Headed by Amanda Reedy, Little Picture Box and her team have produced a couple of seasons of Channel 31′s Studio A and have also produced comedy short films and sketches for online.

The “Backstage” project is a collaboration between Reedy, her team at Little Picture Box and comedians Tommy little, Dave Thornton and Nat Harris. They’ll be producing exclusive online content including interviews, sketches and other funny stuff during the festival plus a half hour Comedy Festival special to air on Channel 31, April 14 at 8.30.

There’s a bunch of videos online now including Tommy Little interviewing Tom Green, Frank Woodley, Tom Ballard, Paul Foot and more. Here’s a few of our fav’s. You can check out more on Little Picture Box’s YouTube Channel.

 

 

 

 

Shaping Up for The Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2012

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is quickly approaching and we are getting very exited! So many shows and less than a month to see them all! To help you through the madness of it all, we your busy, bushy tailed Squirrels will be helping you decide what shows to see.

We will be asking comedians to give us Five Good Reasons for you to choose their Festival show over  the hundreds of others that are happening.

We will also be publishing reviews of festival shows that we have already seen.

During the Festival we will be putting up masses of reviews, pictures and interviews and have other exciting plans in the works.

Meanwhile it’s still a great time to be out at comedy clubs so keep an eye on our fabulous Gig Guide. Many comedians who are performing at the festival are out and about testing their material and big names often suddenly surprise everyone by dropping in. At the same time you might be discovering next year’s festival newcomers. All of Melbourne is buzzing, get out and join the buzz!

 

 

Adelaide Fringe Award Winners 2012 Announced

After another very successful Fringe where ticket sales were up by 10% The Adelaide Fringe Festival Awards were handed out yesterday. Michael Workman, who won best Newcomer at last years Melbourne International Comedy Festival won the Best Comedy award for his new show Mercy. Workman is originally from Perth and won Raw in 2008, which was his first year of doing comedy and that saw him flying off to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe. Workman will next be performing Mercy at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The other nominees were Andrew O’Neill for Alternative and Felicity Ward in the Hedgehog Dilemma.

The Award for Emerging Comedy Artist was given to UK hip hop act Abandoman who are Rob Broderick and multi instrumentalist James Hancox.

Best Children’s Presentation Award went to Brown Brown Brown Brown – The Kids’s Show by Dr Brown & Stuart Bowden.

The Pick of the Fringe went to sexy circus troupe La Clique’s La Soiree and The TalkFringe Award went to Mindblown a close up magic show by Matt Tarrant.

The Underbelly Edinburgh Award which comes with $27,000 went to beat box vocal percussionist Tom Thum for his show Strut & Fret and Tom Thum.

Full list of winners can be found on the Adelaide Fringe Festival site

Feature Story- Welcome to Squirrel Comedy!

Squirrel Comedy is an independent website based out of Melbourne providing comprehensive news, reviews and comedy gig listings. With a focus on Australian stand up, we’re committed to keeping our readers informed with all that’s happening in our thriving live comedy scene. Squirrel comedy is also your source for anything and everything funny, including news, reviews and interviews with comedians and people in the know.
To keep up with whats happening in the local comedy scene you can check out our gig guide, local podcast guide or list of comedian’s blogs.
We will be publishing photos from gigs you’ve seen during the week, if you have any you would like to share send them to us by email at squirrels@squirrelcomedy.com

We plan to write about all the rooms in Melbourne and hope to interview the producers of those rooms. If you have a room we don’t know about, get in touch at editor@squirrelcomedy.com. We begin with a room close to our hearts, Local Laughs in St Kilda and an interview with Janet A McLeod.

We’re also looking forward to keeping you up to date with all the news from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. But remember comedy is not just for Festivals, fabulous live comedy is happening in rooms around Australia every night of the week.

Putting this site together has been a big learning curve for us, and we’re still learning. I’d especially like to thank Jayden for designing the logos and a lot of the work getting it up, to Colin for his all his work on the site, especially the gig guide and to Annette for her original vision and inspiration.

Lisa Clark, Editor.

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