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Melb Int Comedy Festival - the story so far...
Taken on: Sunday, March 30, 2008
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If you are looking for laughs and lots of them, you can't go past the city of Melbourne! The Melb International Comedy Festival is winning hearts all across CBD venues such as Melb Town Hall, Hi-Fi Bar (the official festival club), the Forum, Athenaeum, Victoria Hotel and many others... Just a very mini-review of the festival so far - watch the very funny international guest Arj Barker as he philosphizes about his single status (the delivery of the comparison of his brother's new-born baby and his daily creation of the toilet kind is side-splitting); get some insights on Charlie Pickering's country travels as he talks about ducks; be thoroughly entertained by Des Bishop as he takes you on his life journey from being an altar boy to a Christian non-believer (his intensity when he delivers his punchlines is mesmerisingly hilarious); be comically offended by Chopper (aka Heath Franklin)'s "deadshit" antics (the live beer gag - don't worry, I won't give away the exact logistics of it - has to be seen to be believed); discover the true meaning of some of the most popular Aussie slangs (according to an Irish man) when Jason Byrne finds a root in the wrong places; immerse into Jo Stanley's world of gossip mags as she sings, dances, teases, and gags about the trashy celebrity universe; and let Akmal & Joel Osborn delivers you to an arena of irreverence and indulge you in some ballistic backpacking adventures (Joel's Forrest-Gumpesque observations on life - "....life is like being a boat on a pond of shits..." - is acutely acurate yet painstakingly funny)... And all of the above is only but the tip of the comedy iceberg - there's also Hughesy, Will Anderson, Jeff Green, the Tripods, the Umbilical Brothers and many many more... Laughter is the best medicine, so whatever your ills, take a dose of cackles at the Melb International Comedy Festival and I can guarantee an instant recovery! Words (from my head) and Pics (from various venues incl. the Hi-Fi Bar) by Anton Young


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