Today’s guest is Bart Freebairn. Bart’s show Ultra Power Lord is on every night of the festival, 8pm at the Imperial Hotel. Bart will also be recording another live episode of his podcast with Nick Cody, Something For The Drive Home 1.30pm this Sunday at the Imperial Hotel.
Today’s MICF Daily News Update:
REVIEWS: More reviews have rolled on in over the last week as we get closer to finding out the nominees of various MICF awards. Over at The Age, Tessa Waters show WOMANz has received a four and a half star review, with four star reviews going to both Akmal and Sammy J & Randy. The Herald Sun have handed five stars to Ronny Chieng and Sam Campbell, with four and a half stars going to Dr Professor Neal Portenza and Dave Callan. Beat have also been handing out the reviews – four and a half stars to ONGALS, and four stars each to Aunty Donna and Heidi O’Loughlin.
HOT TICKETS: A whole bunch of shows are close to selling out tonight, if not sold out already. Make sure to pre-buy tickets to the following:
Huw Joseph – Songs That Will Never Leave My Bedroom
Dilruk Jayasinha – Immigrateful
Kitty Flanagan – Seriously?
Tommy Little – Enter The Weapon
Em Rusciano – The Motherload
Nazeem Hussain – Legally Brown
Ronny Chieng – You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About
Russell Kane – Smallness
Joel Creasey – The Hurricane
Jekyll x James – Cactus Blastus
Dave Thornton – Spit & Polish
Hannah Gadsby – Donkey
Toby Halligan – The Bad Gay
VENUE MOVE: Two shows change venues. Alexis Simmonds show Mist-Conceptions move to the Clean Comedy Hub at 7.30pm, and UK act Luisa Omielan moves to the Supper Room at the Melbourne Town Hall at 9.45pm – that one is only for tonight.
OPENING: A smaller list of shows start MICF runs this evening:
Ben Pobjie – Smackweasel: A Memoir
Claire Healy – A Bit of an Overshare
Dr Pam Rama – Kim Kardashian is Bad for the Environment
Miles Milson – Show
The Philly May Show
Russell Kane – Smallness
Cool 2B Kind: A ‘Cult’ Comedy
ONE-OFF: Westside Open Mic, With Sides; a one-night only comedy competition comes to Footscray’s Bluestone Church Arts Space. 7.30pm, entry is free.
FILM: Soup du Jour’s production of 200 Grams, a film on as part of the festival program can be seen at Carlton’s Cinema Nova. See it tonight from 6.30pm.
DEBATE: If it’s comedic argument you’re after, Farouk’s Olive in Thornbury hosts another Farouk’s Comedy Debates. The verbal sparring bell is rung at 9pm.
FAMILY: One more week of school holidays, one more week of family friendly comedy in the daytime. Today’s highlights:
The (very) Big Laugh Out hosts three editions today at the City Square Pitch. See Kano Mami at 12.30pm, Asher Treleaven at 1.30pm, and Jessica Arpin at 3pm.
At 10.30am, Sabrina D’Angelo’s show Zen the Pigeon Girl takes off from the Northcote Town Hall
At 11am, Madeleine Culp & Shane Matheson show us some Dinosaur Guts. Melbourne Town Hall. Also at the Town Hall: Harley Breen and Heath Franklin in Captain Fun Pants and the Mystery of the Fun-o-Matic Fun Wand and Trash Test Dummies.
The 26-Storey Treehouse comes to the Playhouse at the Arts Centre. 11am and 2pm.
Also at 11am, the Yackandandah Young Players present Scaredy-Cat at The Famous Spiegeltent at the Arts Centre.
Matty Gray is on the move to the National Theatre, with the Mega Variety Kids Show. 11.30am.
At 12.15pm at the Town Hall, choose between Impromptunes: Tune Your Own Adventure, Jon Bennett’s family edition of It’s Rabbit Night!!!, or Showko with Ninja Ken & Sushi Monster.
At 12.30pm, Comedy Club for Kids returns to The Spiegeltent at the Melbourne Arts Centre.
Improvilicious: The Improvised Guide to High School holds court at the Melbourne Town Hall from 1.30pm. Also at 1.30pm – Josh Earl in My Family’s Weirder Than Your Family.
At 2pm choose between Alex and Luke’s Make Your Parents Disappear at The Famous Spiegeltent or Mr Snot Bottom and The Curse Of The Stinky Silly Zombie Babies at the Melbourne Town Hall.
Marty Putz is Putzing Around, 3.30pm at the Wonderland Spiegeltent in Docklands.
And ONGALS present their Babbling Comedy, 7pm at The Famous Spiegeltent.
LATE NIGHT: ABC2 series Comedy Up Late films as part of Jameson Festival Club this evening. Doors at The Hi-Fi open at 11.15pm.
Other late night choices include:
The After Party
Late Night, Every Night
Greg Fleet – Ad Lib-Oration
Set List
