Museum Comedy
As part of his continuing mission to marry science and comedy, in 2008 Ben McKenzie launched the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour: an after-hours walk round some of the museum’s exhibits conducted by comedians with a flair for finding the funny in the factual. It returned in 2009 to sell-out crowds and now, in 2010, the idea of Museum Comedy has spread to include a programme of Saturday lunchtime comedy lectures, and in May will reach out to its first non-Melbourne audience, at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney.
All of this is too big to be contained by the Man in the Lab Coat, and so in 2010 Ben launched the the Museum Comedy web site! Click on the title below to visit the new site and find out all about the humour potential hidden in every institution of learning. As Indy might say: comedy belongs in a museum.
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[...] title pretty much says it all: tickets are now on sale via the Comedy Festival web site for the 2009 Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour, featuring Ben McKenzie (the Man in the Lab Coat), Janet A. McLeod (Quiz Internationale) and Andy [...]
[...] words, a friend gave it to me and happened to bring it along when we all went out to a show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival last Saturday night. Thanks Graham! Minolta [...]
[...] It’s also nearly time for Shaolin Punk’s other Comedy festival project, the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour. If you thought it was inappropriate to laugh in a museum, get ready for a shock! You can find out more on the Man in the Lab Coat web site. [...]
[...] Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour kicks off at 6 PM tonight, conducted by A Record or an OBE star and “Man in the Lab [...]