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Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour

As part of his continuing mission to marry science and comedy, in 2008 Ben McKenzie launched the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour. He returns with new companions in 2009 to show a whole host of new tourists that comedy, as Indy might say, belongs in a museum…

The Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour

Melbourne Comedy Festival 2009

The Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour The tour returns! This year, Ben McKenzie returns to Melbourne Museum for more laughter, science and natural history, joined by Melbourne comedy scene stalwart, trivia queen and State Library tour veteran Janet A. McLeod, and comedian, entomologist and host of ABC1’s Collectors program Andy Muirhead. It might be the same Museum, but the Science and Life gallery has been redesigned and the jokes are all new!

The 2009 Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour will run at 6 PM, Thursday to Saturday, on April 16-18 and 23-25. Tickets are now on sale! Get them online via the official page for the show on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival web site.

Melbourne Comedy Festival 2008

The first tourists joined the Man and his initial team of intensely interesting comedians – including Sue-Ann Post, Tommy Dean, Kent Valentine and Bec Hill – for an evening of science, history and laughter wandering the spooky silent halls of Melbourne Museum after closing time.

Tourists met such amazing inmates as CSIRAC, a room-sized computer which couldn’t beat your mobile phone at chess, and Amargasaurus, the vegetarian dinosaur with a mohawk who pre-dated punk and the straight edge movement by 120 million years.

The first season of the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour ran for six sessions during the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Reviews

‘a winning mix of fact and funny’ – Chortle (UK), 2008
‘9/10, ‘an informative and often hilarious tour … not to be missed!’ – The Funny Tonne (Barb), 2008
‘a wonderful way to see the institution … greatly entertaining’ – The Groggy Squirrel, 2008

4 Responses to “Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour”
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  4. Shaolin Punk » Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour tickets now on sale says:
    07/10/2009 at 10:57 am

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