
Sometimes comedy just makes you happy. Coming out of David O’Doherty’s latest show, I have a kind of inside glow, a feeling that our messed up world is maybe kind of OK, maybe even kind of awesome, after all.

Back for its second run at Comedy Festival, this hilarious show celebrates fan fiction in all its glory.

Let’s Do This is an hour of rapidly paced wit, tight anecdotes and wacky musings with the quirk-o-meter just high enough to hit top without going into overdrive.

On stage, she cuts a figure the very quintessence of a young up-and-comer from Sydney: glamorous, brash, sharp-witted and cynical. She has a guitar and knows how to use it.

Headliners is a rotating roster of current US stand up comedians, three performing in a single show from a pool of seven performers.

Loretta is classic white trash – even classy white trash at times – and her dialogue and songs explore its rich realms.

Josh Thomas seems to be one of those humans born to be a comedian. With his tousled hair, slouching-about-the-house dress sense and equally casual attitude to being in front of an audience, it's quite impossible to picture him being anything but a professional entertainer.