Melbourne Reviews

AustralianStage

Details: Hayden Burke; 03 April 2021

If you like your comedy on the darker, self depleting side then this gig should be on your comfest itinerary.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 03 April 2021

The hour roars along at a steady pace. Nothing drags it down and Britton is in top form from go to woah.

Details: Jane Canaway; 02 April 2021

For all her cynicism and cutting social commentary, there’s a delightful, sweet quality to Coombs Marr’s humour, which is peppered with cute dad jokes and puns.

Details: Jane Canaway; 02 April 2021

It seems surreal that Frank Woodley has been playing the manic irritant to Colin Lane’s frustrated straight man since the mid 1980s – which is probably when half their current audience was born.

Details: Jane Canaway; 02 April 2021

It’s hard to watch Geraldine Hickey without (a) laughing and (b) mulling over words like ‘laconic’ and ‘laid-back’.

Details: Jane Canaway; 31 March 2021

Master of the deadpan, harsh host of Hard Quiz, and heartless interrogator on Hard Chat, making audiences squirm as much as his victims – Tom Gleeson uses blunt-force trauma as his comedy schtick.

Details: Hayden Burke; 30 March 2021

Many comedians have been delving into personal struggles on stage, revealing truth and darkness which in turn, evokes both tears and laughs from the audience. This is not one of those shows.

Details: Jane Canaway; 29 March 2021

It doesn’t matter how much you know or care about the legality of the Essendon Football Club supplements program in 2013 – it won’t stop you enjoying this original and entertaining saga, because Kit Richards has a talent for making otherwise dull stories fun and interesting. And for writing damn good songs.