The 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival turns 30 celebrating with its biggest festival, with more shows and venues ever, becoming one of the world's largest and most respected comedy festivals.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world, alongside Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival.
An annual event, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival literally takes over Australia’s comedy capital, Melbourne, each autumn with an enormous program of stand-up comedy, cabaret, theatre, street performance, film, television, radio and visual arts.
Arguably the crown jewel in Melbourne’s entertainment calendar, the festival brings together both local and international performers for over 3 weeks of comedy, music, sly social commentary and most importantly of all… laughs!
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival will celebrate its 30th year in 2016 and is one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world, alongside Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.
A-List Entertainment Lines Up World Class Acts For MICF
A-List Entertainment is delighted to be presenting a world-class line up at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which is set to take over Australia’s comedy capital from Wednesday 23rd March until Sunday 17th April.
With a jam-packed program of stand-up comedy, cabaret, theatre, street performance, film, television, radio and visual arts, the festival has grown to become Australia’s largest cultural event.
From the best local talent to international acts, A-List Entertainment is bringing a program of side-splittingly hilarious acts to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival stage for three and a half weeks.
Akmal returns to this year’s festival with his self-titled show. Drawing on his Arabic heritage, his experiences immigrating to Australia at 11 years old and his disillusionment with religion and the modern world, his stand-up show is fresh, honest and ridiculously funny.
Comedians Against Humanity is a new concept in interactive, improvised stand-up, hosted by Fringe World nominated comedian Yianni Agisilaou. Every performance features a changing line up of guest comedians using the most riotous, fun and inappropriate suggestions that the popular card game - Cards Against Humanity - and the audience can provide.
See Jimeoin and his expressive eyebrows For One Night Only and see why he’s one of the world’s best stand-up comedians. His regular appearances at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival attract sell-out advance bookings.
Love Bites is a new panel show about love in all its beautiful, horrifying, stupid, life-affirming and soul-destroying glory, from some of the brains behind award winning Australian television comedies, The Glass House and Good News Week. Hosted by Yianni Agisilaou, he will ask you to confess your most magaical (but mainly embarrassing) stories of love.
Tahir explores the notion of racism in a light-hearted and jam-packed show - Bogans, Wogs, Asians, and Other Aussie Citizens – with his usual signature audience participation.
Tanyalee Davis is the little lady with the big voice! Her show, Actual Size, highlights her gargantuan personality and tells her unique life story. Actual Size is Tanyalee’s most hard-hitting jokes mixed with a healthy dose of side-splitting tales from her absolutely absurd adventures.
Tom Green returns to Australia with a brand new show. Tom Green Live provides non-stop laughter through his brilliantly cracked view of the world around him.
When comedian and former illegal immigrant Umit Bali toured his smash-hit show Flight Plan in 2015, reviewers and audiences worried that he couldn’t top his tales of coming to Australia as a child and spending more than ten years fighting to stay here legally. Those people need not worry. Umit returns to Melbourne with his latest show, Aussie at Last!
Yianni Agisilaou returns with his new show all about his love of The Simpsons and pop culture’s influence on a generation (or five). The Simpsons Taught Me Everything I Know asks, can an obsessive knowledge of the world’s longest running cartoon embiggen one's understanding or is that unpossible?
Australia’s most popular comedian, Carl Barron, returns to this year’s festival with Drinking With a Fork. An evening of stand-up with a bit of guitar, Carl blends structure with chance, or as he likes to call it – drinking with a fork.
Moonman is the coming of age, a story of a 50-year-old man. In a year when everything was coming up roses for Lawrence Mooney, things started to fray at the edges. After being arrested at his home, he had his car impounded, faced a magistrate and had to remain silent whilst being berated by the beak – difficult for one so normally outspoken. This resulted in the big questions WHO AM I? WHAT DO I WANT? WHAT AM I DOING? The answer came from a close comedy friend – ‘you’re the Moonman, never forget that!’
Australia’s only Identical Twin Musical Comedy Duo, The Stevenson Experience are two of the country’s fast rising comedians. Twinfinity will be the fifth live show from The Stevenson Experience and will be jam-packed with all the antics that they have become renowned for over the years: highly skilled piano playing from Benjamin, less skilled guitar playing from James, uproarious audience interaction, competitive and infectious sibling rivalry, rapping, red-hot dance moves, scathingly clever lyrics, creative twinsults, and a metric tonne of laughter.
The Umbilical Brothers are back with Speedmouse - a live action, fast paced, rewind, slow motion, frame-by-frame adventure where two men create the impossible out of a microphone and a unique physical ability that has no equal.
Ross Noble – everybody’s favourite randomist - is back with his show, Brain Dump. As always he has a lot of stuff backing up in his head and it’s time to let it all out. Famed for his fiery and fluid freewheeling style, Noble creates comedy gold from tiny particles of random nonsense.
Hailing from Melbourne, Simon Taylor has toured throughout Australia and the United States and is back with a new show – Human – which focuses on how we define ourselves in a world where cultures ideals collide more than ever.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival aims to discover, develop and showcase great talent for the entertainment and inspiration of a broad based audience – for three and a half weeks each year, Melbourne is the centre of the comedy universe.
2016 SHOWS ON SALE!
NOW ON SALE:
Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow - Palais Theatre
Upfront - Melbourne Town Hall
Adam Richards - Imperial Hotel
Adam RozenbachsACMI -
Arj Barker - Palais Theatre
Akmal - Athenaeum Theatre
Alex Edelman - Melbourne Town Hall
Alex Williamson - Athenaeum Theatre
Alice Tovey - The Butterfly Club
Always Working Artists - The Butterfly Club
Amos Gill - Forum Theatre
Andrew McClelland - Forum Theatre
Anne Edmonds - Greek Centre
Arcade Arcade - The Butterfly Club
Aunty Donna - Roxanne
Becky Lucas - Victoria Hotel
BenT - The Sub Club/Hares and Hyenas
Best of the Edinburgh Fest - Forum Theatre
The Big Hoo-Haa - The Butterfly Club
Brendon Green - Trades Hall
Brett Blake - Grand Mecure Hotel / Fort Delta
The 30th Brian McCarthy Memorial Moosehead Award Benefit - Melbourne Town Hall
Brian Posehn - The Corner Hotel
Bugle Boys - Athenaeum Theatre
Carl Barron - Regent Theatre
Catherine Deveny - Trades Hall
Celia Pacquola - Comedy Theatre
Charlie Pickering - Comedy Theatre
Chimp Cop Nights - Imperial Hotel
Chopper's Republic of Anzakistan - Athenaeum Theatre
Christopher Welldon - Trades Hall
CJ Delling - Bull and Bear Tavern
Claire Healy - The Butterfly Club
Clara Cupcakes - The Butterfly Club
Cool 2B Kind - The Butterfly Club
Comedians Against Humanity - Little Sista
Comedy Hypnosis - Atheneaum Theatre
3 Course Comedy - Pleasance House Comedy
Damien Power - Melbourne Town Hall
Damien Vosk - Improv Conspiracy Training Centre
Daniel Connell - Melbourne Town Hall
Danny Bhoy - Hamer Hall
Dave Hughes - Athenaeum Theatre
Dave Thornton - Max Watt's (formerly Hi Fi)
David M. Green - Caz Reitop's Dirty Secrets
David O'Doherty - Melbourne Town Hall
Dean Haglund - Trades Hall
Demi Lardner - Victoria Hotel
Diana Nguyen - The Butterfly Club
Dicing With Doctor Death - Athenaeum Theatre
Dilruk Jayasinha - Victoria Hotel
Dinosaur Guts - Melbourne Town Hall
Dolly Diamond - Melbourne Town Hall
Eileen Williams - The Butterfly Club
El Jaguar - Forum Theatre
Em Rusciano - The Palais Theatre
Felicity Ward - ACMI
Frank Woodley - Melbourne Town Hall
Frenchy - Trades Hall
Gillian Cosgriff - The Butterfly Club
Gordon Southern - Greek Centre
Hal Cruttenden - Melbourne Town Hall
Hannah Gadsby - ACMI
Harley Breen - Melbourne Town Hall
Headliners - Melbourne Town Hall
How to make love to a dragon - Fort Delta @ Shop 59, Capitol Arcade
Hue Blanes - Batty Patty's
Illuminati Karate Party - Imperial Hotel
Impromptunes - Trades Hall
Improv Against Humanity - Improv Conspiracy Training Centre
#improvilicious - Melbourne Town Hall
Isabella Valette - The Butterfly Club
Ivan Aristeguieta - Melbourne Town Hall
Jake Johannsen - Greek Centre
Jimeoin - The Palms at Crown
Joel Creasey - Max Watt's (formerly Hi Fi)
Joel Dommett - Melbourne Town Hall
Jonestown - The Butterfly Club
Josh Earl - 3RRRFM Performance Space
Jude Perl - The Butterfly Club
Judith Lucy - Comedy Theatre
Karl Chandler - Victoria Hotel
Kate Dehnert - ACMI
Khaled Khalafalla - Trades Hall
Kirsty Webeck - Caz Reitop's Dirty Secrets
Lady Sings It Better - The Butterfly Club
Late Night Letters and Numbers - Melbourne Town Hall
Laura Davis - ACMI
Laura Dunemann - Trades Hall
Lawrence Mooney - Athenaeum Theatre
Lehmo - Melbourne Town Hall
Lessons with Luis - ACMI
Liam Ryan - Trades Hall
Love Bites - Melbourne Town Hall/Hairy Little Sista
Luisa Omielan - Victoria Hotel
Luka Muller - Imperial Hotel
Luke Heggie - Melbourne Town Hall
Lynn Ruth Miller - The Butterfly Club
Magicsports - Melbourne Town Hall
Matt Ford - Trades Hall
Matt Okine - Melbourne Town Hall
Mel Buttle - Melbourne Town Hall
Michael Hing - Greek Centre
The Mighty Little Puppet Show - Upstairs Lounge at Little Sista
Mr G Singalong - Comedy Theatre
Music, Mirth & Mayhem - Max Watt's (formerly Hi Fi)
Natalie Harris - Trades Hall
Nath Valvo - Melbourne Town Hall
Nazeem Hussain - ACMI
Neal Portenza - Melbourne Town Hall
Neel Kolhatkar - Roxanne
Nick Cody - ACMI
Nish Kumar - Melbourne Town Hall
One Night Stand: A Musical Comedy Showcase - Chapel Off Chapel
Pax Assadi & James Roque - Greek Centre
Peter Helliar - Comedy Theatre
Peter Jones - Greek Centre
Political Asylum - Melbourne Town Hall
Radio Variety Hour - The Butterfly Club
Ray Badran - Greek Centre
Rama Nicholas - Trades Hall
Reuben Kaye - The Butterfly Club
Rich Hall - Melbourne Town Hall
Rob Caruana - Downstairs Lounge @ Grand Mecure Hotel
Rose Matafeo - Victoria Hotel
Ross Noble - Hamer Hall / His Majesty's Theatre
Sam Simmons - Forum Theatre
Sammy J & Randy - Athenaeum Theatre
Sara Pascoe - Melbourne Town Hall
Sarah Gaul - The Butterfly Club
Sarah Millican - Melbourne Town Hall
Shannan Lim & Vidya Rajan - Trades Hall
Soothplayers - Trades Hall
3 States of Comedy - Swanston Hotel
Steen Raskopoulos - Swiss Club
Susie Youssef - Melbourne Town Hall
Tahir - The Comics Lounge
Tanyalee Davis - Little Sista
Tegan Higgenbotham - Greek Centre
Tessa Waters - Melbourne Town Hall
The 5:30 Show - Melbourne Town Hall
The Big Hoo Haa - Cliffhanger - The Butterfly Club
The Time Machine - The Retreat Hotel
Thomas Jaspers - Greek Centre
Toby Halligan - Imperial Hotel
Tom Ballard - Boundless Plains To Share - Trades Hall / Melbourne Town Hall
Tom Ballard - The World Keeps Happening - Melbourne Town Hall
Tom Gleeson - Comedy Theatre
Tom Green - Athenaeum Theatre
Tommy Dassalo - The Downstairs Lounge
Tommy Little - Forum Theatre
Tommy Tiernan - Hamer Hall
Troy Kinne - Swiss Club
True Australian Patriots - Melbourne Town Hall
Umit Bali - Downstairs Lounge @ Grand Mecure Hotel
Urzila Carlson - Swiss Club
WATSON - Melbourne Town Hall
Wil Anderson - Comedy Theatre
Yeti's Demon Dive Bar - Roxanne
Yianni - Downstairs Lounge @ Grand Mecure Hotel
You Only Laugh Twice - The Butterfly Club
Zoe Coombs Marr - Victoria Hotel
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