2006 Winner Hannah Gadsby
Do you live in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, the back of Bourke or the middle of the desert? Does your grandmother think you’re the riot of the family, the class clown, a professional ventriloquist, or do you just make yourself laugh?
And what would you do if you won a life-sized straw chicken wearing a pair of over-sized Groucho Marx glasses? Oh, and a trip to the Edinburgh Festival? Quite simply you have to be in it to win it!!
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with the support of triple j is calling for entries for the 2007 RAW Comedy competition. Undiscovered comic geniuses have only a matter of weeks to sign themselves up for heats in their area, which begin early January 2007.
RAW Comedy is Australia’s biggest and truly national open mic comedy competition. Competing in nearly 75 heats across the whole country a panel of judges will select performers most likely to become the next big thing.
The lucky jokesters then progress through a series of semi and state finals, before slugging it out at the National Grand Final at the Melbourne Town Hall as part of the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival in April.
The RAW Comedy Grand Final winner is then flown to the Edinburgh Fringe for their chance to joke around with comedy’s big guns.
In addition to announcing Australia’s best RAW Comedian at the National Final, we’ll also declare the best first-time entrant in RAW to be our RAW Recruit Winner.
It’s time to get entries in! Log onto Raw Comedy at www.rawcomedy.com.au for registration and venue details, plus information on how to be a part of the audience for those who are not quite ready to get up on the stage.