One of the best international acts at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival are yours for free — well, yours and a mate's.
We’ve got two double passes each to Joe Kent-Walters, Anesti Danelis and Christopher Hall, all presented by Century at The Greek on Lonsdale Street. Let us know your pick and you’ll go in the running to win one of the three!
Comedy Fest giveaways
- Where: The Greek, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
- When: 26 March – 19 April (Joe Kent-Walters) / 26 March – 5 April (Anesti Danelis and Christopher Hall)
- Tickets: here, here and here
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Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: Live!!! (& Dead!!!)
Yorkshire’s Joe Kent-Walters won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2024 and the BBC New Comedy Award in 2023, and he’s making his Melbourne debut with a character that shouldn’t work but absolutely does. Frankie Monroe is the owner and MC of The Misty Moon, a working men’s club in Rotherham that also happens to be a portal to hell. Expect tricks, catchphrases, dirty lager and a level of chaos that builds until the whole room has lost it. The show runs from 26 March to 19 April at The Greek’s Aphrodite room, with 60-minute sessions at 8.40pm (7.40pm on Sundays).
Anesti Danelis — Artificially Intelligent
Greek-Canadian musical comedian Anesti Danelis has racked up close to a million followers and more than 500 million views online, and his latest show started with a spectacularly bad idea: asking ChatGPT to write him an hour of comedy. The Toronto-based performer blends sharp, witty piano songs with stories about tech dependence, cultural identity and the absurd process of figuring out who you are when an algorithm thinks it already knows. The show won Best Comedy at the 2024 Toronto Fringe and runs from 26 March to 5 April at The Greek’s Mezzanine, kicking off at 6.30pm (5.30pm on Sundays).
Christopher Hall — Pizazz
If you’ve scrolled past Christopher Hall’s Background Singers series — featuring collaborations with the Sugababes, Natasha Bedingfield and Shania Twain among others — you’ll know the energy he brings to a room. The British comedian and self-described showboy trained in musical theatre, performed on cruise ships and found viral fame during lockdown, amassing over 1.2 million followers across TikTok and Instagram. His new show is a theatrical, dance-heavy hour about being in your early-mid 30s and reckoning with the life-of-the-party version of yourself you used to be. It runs from 26 March to 5 April at The Greek’s Mezzanine at 7.50pm (6.50pm on Sundays).
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