5 Good Reasons to see Party Banana

1. It’s a fake art gallery launch party hosted by a variety of recognisable characters.

2. There’s a bar IN the show. No more smashing your wine before entry. You want a drink, you can have one whenever you want (for a reasonable price).

3. You get to watch a bunch of painful hipster characters get brought crashing down to Earth, and you don’t have to go to Brunswick St to do it!

4. SUPER-CONVENIENT LOCATION, 178 Collins St. Right next to Athenaeum, and a stone’s throw from the Town Hall hub.

5. It’s interactive, but not in a “getting-picked-on-in-the front-row way. You get to chat and mingle with the characters and no two audience members experience the same show!

Party Banana is on at Melbourne Natural Wellness on Collins st from April 2

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2014/season/shows/party-banana

5 Good Reasons to See Matty Grey’s Grossed Out Game Show

#1 – We are NOT a sickly-sweet and innocent little kids show where parents show up to take a nap. We are laugh-so-hard-snot-comes-out-your-nose type stuff. What better bonding experience for kids and parents than laughing at each other
 I mean with each other, with!

 

#2 – We have organised a selection of the best comedians that the festival has to offer as our special guests. Come along if you want to see performers like Adam Richards, Felicity Ward, Axis of Awesome, Rebecca De Unamuno, El Jaguar and a host of others completely covered in SLIME!

 

#3 – We will probably be the messiest show at the festival this year. And do you know what venue we are in? Comedy on Collins, the Clean Comedy venue! Alanis Morissette eat your heart out!

 

#4 – We got a letter from a large corporation in America last year trying to stop us doing our show! Come to the Grossed Out Game Show to support the little guy and DAMN THE MAN!!! (Want to find out which big baddy tried to stop us? You have to come to the show to hear the story!)

 

#5 – I did mention that we had slime didn’t I? What more reasons do you need?

Matty Grey’s Grossed Out Game Show is a kids show on at Comedy on Collins for a week from the 7th of April

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2014/season/shows/grossed-out-game-show-matty-grey-s

5 Good Reasons to see Adam Rozenbach’s Breaking Booze

1.You could be the first to ever see a show at The Cube at ACMI at Fed Square. Imagine people’s responses when they hear that information
 “Who cares?” “You’re boring.” “Get away from me!”

2. It’s a dry, cool environment, so if you’re a pantry item then it’s the perfect show for you. *Dried herbs get in free

3. You’ll spend a whole hour having endorphins released into your system, making you feel good. And that’s not just from the jokes; I constantly spray the audience with a fine mist of endorphins so that no matter what I do you’ll walk away feeling amazing. [I’ve not done this before so it may prove slightly addictive; prepare to see every show without ever really knowing why]

4. It’s the only show that accepts Bitcoin.

5. I haven’t quite worked out the mechanics of this, but I’m thinking of catching up on a missed year of drinking on stage. I know it won’t be easy downing fifteen slabs and 24 tequila shots in an hour, but I really want to give it a crack. If nothing else, the last ten minutes will be interesting/slurry.

Adam Rozenbachs Breaking Booze is on at The Melbourne Town Hall

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2014/season/shows/breaking-booze-adam-rozenbachs

5 Good Reasons to See Emily Taylor in PET

1. You WILL learn a new dog grooming skill to practice on all your friends.

2. You WILL discover an amazing fact about the Guinea Pig that will shake you to your core.

3. You WILL get to see the world through fresh eyes.

4. You WILL pass through the eye of the Pets Are Quite Gross Sometimes storm.

5. You WON’T have to do anything embarrassing, disturbing or revealing. Emily will do all that for you.

Emily Taylor perfoms PET at the Portland Hotel

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2014/season/shows/in-pet-emily-taylor

5 Good Reasons to see Ronny Chieng – Chieng Reaction:

1. I starred on TV’s Problems, It’s a Date, Legally Brown, Dirty Laundry Live, Tractor Monkeys, This is Littleton, Have you Been Paying Attention? and the Just For Laughs comedy special.

2. I opened for Dave Chappelle on his national tour of Australia in 2014.

3. I trash talk Apple Store Employees in my show (amongst many, many other groups of people).

4. You should support the arts.

5. This: http://youtu.be/akgWJ5noTqI

Ronny Chieng – Chieng Reaction is on at The Hifi Bar

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2014/season/shows/chieng-reaction-ronny-chieng

5 Good Reasons to see Squeaky Clean Comedy

1. Candlelight Productions isn’t just another arts production company… it’s a social movement. We use different art forms of art to strengthen community and shape culture. At Candlelight Productions, art isn’t merely a passive object, but also a tool for advocacy.

2. Comedy like you have never seen it before, a gala of feel-good comedy for everyone by Australia’s finest. Squeaky Clean Comedy is Melbourne’s flagship clean comedy production, and has only grown year-on-year!

3. A show with a unique edge, this year ‘Squeaky Clean Comedy…on yard duty’ is partnering up with World Vision to promote the importance of education initiatives for indigenous communities.

4. It’s a 2-hour long variety show including physical comedy, poetry and a bunch of stand-up! The lineup of the show will keep you guessing from the beginning as no two acts are the same and no two laughs will be the same either!

5. It’s down right funny!

Squeaky Clean Comedy is Melbourne City Conference Centre on the first 3 Saturdays of the Festival.

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2014/season/shows/squeaky-clean-comedy