Comedian/DJ Fiona Scott-Norman's new show Disco: The Vinyl Solution lacks cohesiveness but Scott-Norman's gangly charm carries it across the line, writes Luke Buckmaster.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is in full and funny swing. So which comedians are drawing the biggest laughs? Crikey's festival blog Laugh Track has been reviewing the shows and talking to the stars. Here's their two picks so far...
Catherine Deveny’s "comedy" show gives atheism a bad name. Atheists aren’t arrogant – they’re just smug, she claims. None more smug than her, writes Matt Smith.
Procrastination is the theme of Cal Wilson’s show this year. Wilson does nice rather than edgy and, not withstanding a cherry popping joke, it's the kind of show you could take your mother-in-law to see, writes Vince Chadwick.
Andrew McCelland's new autobiographical comedy show isn't pun heavy, so it relies on McCelland's stories and command of language. Simply put: it's brilliant, writes Matt Smith.
Can’t Get No is everything Generation Y could wish for: an excuse not to get married, have kids and become the modern-day workaholic, writes Siobhan Argent.
This all-Australian (well, almost) adaptation of Puccini’s tragic opera is every bit is, from the very first moment, a resplendent production. It's subtlety meets high drama meets the aesthetically sublime, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
Matt Keneally's Melbourne International Comedy Festival show The Great Escape is politics-based but rather safe middle ground entertainment, writes Siobhan Argent.
The apparent ease with which Lawrence Mooney recites consistently hilarious material must rankle the spirits of other thoroughly decent comedians who seem to work twice as hard for half the result, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Veteran comedian Rod Quantock is known for his peculiar, often political stand-up comedy. He chews the fat with comedy blogger Matt Smith about current politics, his new show The Insane Asylum and much more.
