Today’s guest Lisa-Skye appears in her show Songs My Parents Taught Me tonight and tomorrow at 8.30pm, Sunday at 7.30pm at the Tuxedo Cat. More info on the show is located at the Comedy Festival website. Lisa also recommends: John Robertson, Nellie White, Xavier Michelides, Nerdgasm, and Rama Nicholas.
Also joining us is MICF Daily correspondent Nick Mason. Nick recommends checking out the following: Skills in Time, The Last Video Shop Ever, Simon Keck, Fabian Lapham, Jon Bennett, Abel Seaman, Facty Fact, and Smart Casual.
Today’s MICF Daily News:
EXTRA SHOWS: It’s the final weekend of the festival, which means a bunch of popular shows have added extra editions for you to see from tonight onwards. Here’s the extras for this weekend:
Superwog and MyChonny – Today at 5.30pm, and Sunday 3pm at the Town Hall
Tansy Bradshaw – Tonight and tomorrow, 6.15pm at The Bull and Bear Tavern
Standard Double – Tonight at 10pm, and tomorrow at 5pm at The Blackman Hotel
Matt Okine – Tonight, 11pm at the Victoria Hotel
Dave – Tonight, 11pm at the Northcote Town Hall
Tommy Little – Tonight and tomorrow, 11pm at the Melbourne Town Hall
Joel Creasey – Tonight and tomorrow, 11pm at the Town Hall
Judith Lucy & Denise Scott – Tomorrow and Sunday, 3pm at the Princess Theatre
Ronny Chieng – Tomorrow, 5.30pm at the Town Hall
Aamer Rahman – Tomorrow, 6pm at the Town Hall
Tom Gleeson – Tomorrow, 11pm at the Town Hall
Em Rusciano – Tomorrow, 11pm at the Forum
Dave Thornton – Tomorrow, 11pm at the Victoria Hotel
Luke McGregor – Sunday, 3.45pm at the Portland Hotel
Hannah Gadbsy – Sunday, 4.30pm at the Town Hall
Choir Girl – Sunday, 4.30pm at the Town Hall
Tegan Higginbotham – Sunday, 5pm at Spleen Bar
Adam Rozenbachs – Sunday, 5pm at the Town Hall
A Sunburnt History: The First Fleet – Sunday, 6pm at Trades Hall
Steve Hughes – Sunday, 7.30pm at the Forum
Simon Keck – Sunday, 8.45pm at the Portland Hotel
ONE-OFFS: The future of comedy starts today as the festival hosts the 2013 Class Clowns National Grand Final. The showcase event features Australia’s finest under 18 years olds competing to take out the gong and a $2000 cash prize. The Grand Final will be hosted by DeAnne Smith and Matt Okine, with special guests the Pajama Men dropping by. The competition will feature state winners Lachie Clark (Victoria), Emma Hogan (South Australia), Sam Perry (Northern Territory), James Warren (Tasmania), Brandon Boccola (Western Australia), Rory Gillen (Australian Capital Territory), and Aaron Chen (New South Wales). The Grand Final takes place 1pm today at the Town Hall, tickets from Ticketmaster.
One more extra show has been added to the 2013 Comedy Festival lineup. Dave Callan, whose show The Psychology of Laughter has picked up strong reviews will provide a sample of his 2014 MICF show this weekend. A Little Less Conversation is an hour of dance, with Callan and dancers Clare Nica and Melissa Bruce showing off their finest moves. See it tonight and tomorrow, 11pm at Trades Hall.
Cinema Fiasco completes it’s festival run this evening with the screening of 1970 English gothic horror film Vampire Lovers. Review round-up website Rotten Tomatoes lists the film with an approval rating of 43 per cent, based on seven reviews, and is certified ‘rotten’, but don’t let that stop you seeing the film tonight, with live commentary from Geoff Wallis and Janet A. McLeod. See the film 7.30pm tonight at Cinema Nova, tickets from the box office.
Beat writer and Comedy Festival Funny Tonne contestant Nick Taras is doing a series of videos for The Age. Aiming on seeing 150 shows this year at the fest, he has seen 124 shows with not very long to go before the fest finishes. Check out the Comikaze videos over at The Age, and read his long form reviews at the Comedy Festival website.
DISCOUNTS: If you’re after some cheap tix to some of the festival’s biggest international acts, Ticketmaster has you covered. For a limited time only, $25 tickets are available for Josie Long, Loretta Maine, Simon Munnery, and Headliners with James Adomian, Jessica Kirson and Brendon Walsh. Use the promo code FINAL to take advantage of the offer.
LATE NIGHT: In late night news, Festival Club has another edition of Comedy Bonanza tonight, featuring many of the festival’s finest acts strutting their stuff on the Hi-Fi bar stage. See the action from 11.15pm tonight, tickets at the door.
Also back tonight is Late Night Letters and Numbers – the quiz show that gets the words made and the numbers calculated up – with added interaction and drinking! See it tonight, 10.45pm at Trades Hall. Other late night shows on tonight: Shaggers, Facty Fact, The New Conway Tonight Show, Capital Punishment, The After Party, Ali McGregor’s Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night, The Big Hoo-Haa!, Late Night Theatresports, and Stand-Up Sit-Down: Comics in Conversation. For a full list of shows on today at the Comedy Festival, check it’s official website.
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