Today on the show, Mike is joined by Luis of Lessons with Luis to talk about music festivals, cats, and being opinionated. See Luis in By Myself, 7.15pm tonight at the Tuxedo Cat. Tickets from TryBooking.
In today’s MICF Daily Update:
More new shows kick off tonight at the festival, including Al & Anna’s Music Rant, Glenn Robbins and Dave O’Neil, and today’s MICF Daily guest Lessons with Luis. These and many more acts on tonight are listed at the Comedy Festival’s website.
Starting a three show run tonight is Colin Hay. The frontman of Men At Work will perform his show Waiting For My Real Life… tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. The show starts 9pm at The Arts Centre, tickets from Ticketmaster.
RAW Comedy holds its National Grand Final this Sunday. Competing in the event: Marc Ryan (SA), Michael Kelly (NT), Jennifer Burke (QLD), Katie Birch (NSW), Cyrus Bezyan (NSW), Kerri Gay (TAS), Matt Stewart (VIC), Megan McCrea (VIC), Simon Etheridge (VIC), Matt Storer (WA), with a special guest appearance from RAW Comedy India winner Rohan Desai. 5pm at the Town Hall, tickets from Ticketmaster.
Rain or shine, The (very) Big Laugh Out runs at the festival – at the City Square Pitch on fine days, at the Melbourne Town Hall on not so fine days. See Ong-als in Babbling Comedy at 12.30pm, Sivouplait at 1.30pm, and Yo-Yo Guy at 3pm. Entry for all is free.
Pop-Ups: It’s been confirmed – A Young Man Dressed As A Gorilla Dressed As An Old Man Sits Rocking In A Rocking Chair For Fifty-Six Minutes And Then Leaves returns for its fourth edition at the Tuxedo Cat, 4pm Saturday April 19. Entry is free.
Also popping up, another late night festival edition of improvised soup opera Spinnaker Bay. 10.45pm tonight at Bella Union at Trades Hall. Tickets at bellaunion.com.au or at the door.
Late Night: Ali McGregor’s Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night makes its festival return tonight to the Spiegeltent at its new site of Federation Square. 10pm, tix through Ticketmaster.
The Festival Club also returns tonight with Comedy Bonanza with host Anne Edmonds and guests including Tim Vine and Heath Franklin. 11.15pm at The Hi-Fi. Also on late tonight: Stuart Daulman, Capital Punishment and Backwards Anorak. Again, visit comedyfestival.com.au for a full list of all of tonight’s shows.
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