Melbourne International Comedy Festival to tackle fake news for this year’s Great Debate
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival to tackle fake news for this year’s Great Debate

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That You’ve Gotta Fake News To Make News will be the motivating slant of tongue with Tom Ballard, DeAnne Smith and Andy Zaltzman taking argument’s easy way out on the affirmative side.

Loggerheading from the negative side will be Sammy J, Janelle James and Rhys Nicholson while Mel Buttle will be representing the audience party acting as a special correspondent and pollster from the crowd.

So what will it be? Does click-baiting trash really reign true in today’s society or is all news being pumped out honest and justified?