Posts Tagged “stand-up”
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Political Asylum's 2010 Election Extravaganza |
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
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Corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets
Carlton, Victoria, Australia
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| Other Info | We've pulled together all our best comedians with all their best topical material to completely blow the lid off this election, live on the big stage. Not only do we have an amazing lineup of Political Asylum regulars, but check out this guest list: ROD QUANTOCK. DAMIAN CALLINAN. CATHERINE DEVENY. We've never had a show this big before. It's going to be AWESOME.
On top of this, Mathew Kenneally will be launching his new run for federal office during the show. The last time Mat sought the top job was before the previous election in 2007, and he picked up the BEST COMEDY award at Melbourne Fringe for his efforts. Three years on, he's back with a host of new policies that promise to be even more ridiculous than before.
One show only! Don't wait to get your tickets, this event will sell out. |
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Political Asylum |
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
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The Brunswick Green ( map)
313 Sydney Road
Brunswick, Victoria, Australia 3056
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| Other Info | With new gags from regulars Mat Kenneally, Courteney Hocking, Toby Halligan, Scott Abbott and Ben McKenzie, plus the return of crowd favourite Stella Young and guest hosted by the fantastic Matt Elsbury. Tickets $10/$5 at the door. |
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Political Asylum: Comedy Caucus 2010 |
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Friday, April 9, 2010
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89 Flinders Lane
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000
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| Other Info | Political Asylum showcases the finest political comedians in Australia, locking them in a room until they've delivered two hours of cutting, up to the minute political stand-up.
If you love The Daily Show and The Chaser, and wish Hey Hey It's Saturday had stayed dead, then don't miss this one-off special event.
Featuring:
- Mathew Kenneally (BEST COMEDY Melbourne Fringe 2007)
- Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain from Fear of a Brown Planet (BEST NEWCOMER Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2008),
- Courteney Hocking (BEST POLITICAL SHOW Trades Hall 2008)
- the irrepressible Rob Quantock
and many more, including SURPRISE SPECIAL GUESTS who we hadn't organised yet at the time this blurb was written.
Oh yeah, and Ben McKenzie! |
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Political Asylum |
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
7:30pm
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Melbourne's monthly political comedy room
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All Ages
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The Brunswick Green ( map)
313 Sydney Road
Brunswick, Victoria, Australia 3056
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| Other Info | Political Asylum is Melbourne's premier political comedy room - all new topical material every month from a regular stable of sharp-witted locals, plus special guests!
March 2010 features Michael Chamberlin, Anyone for Tennis?, Courteney Hocking, Mathew Kenneally, Ben McKenzie, Paul Culliver, Toby Halligan, Stella Young and Scott Abbot.
See the Political Asylum blog for more info. |
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Posted by Ben in Uncategorized, tags: +1 Sword, Comedy Festival, Dungeon Crawl, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour, Melbourne Museum Lunchtime Comedy, Political Asylum, sketch, stand-up
So said the Melbourne International Comedy Festival iPhone app. It seems they truly have embraced the way of the geek – if not entirely successfully.
Anyway, the Man in the Lab Coat will be out and about a lot this year, and while a new solo science show is still a little way off – there is one in the making, I promise! – there’s no shortage of opportunities to see me be funny.
The biggest news is that the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour is back and bigger than ever! For the first time we have international tour guides, not six but nine performances, and no Ben McKenzie. Yes, it’s true, I am producing but not performing this year, but that just means someone else will be writing new dinosaur jokes for your edification! As well as the tour, there’s also Melbourne Museum Lunchtime Comedy, a Saturday lunchtime series science and history based comedy from some of the smartest stars of the Comedy Festival. The whole thing’s so big now that it deserves its own web site – so I’ve given it one. Head over to museumcomedy.com to find out who’s on when and where!
The main reason I won’t be doing jokes about dinosaurs is because I’ll be too busy doing jokes about dragons. Yes, the sell-out, literally underground hit of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, +1 Sword, returns for another season at Caz Reitops Dirty Secrets in Collingwood. If you’ve ever wondered what Dungeons & Dragons is all about, now’s your chance to wield a wand and swing a sword and learn everything you never knew you could know about the world’s first and most popular fantasy role-playing game. And if that’s not enough, for three nights only you can watch some of your favourite comedians from around the festival go on the archetypal monster-killing, treasure collecting adventure in the improvised show, Dungeon Crawl. You can find out lots more about the show over at my production company web site, Shaolin Punk.
Plus, I’ll be doing a few guest spots around the festival, including the comedy festival special edition of Political Asylum and the second Annual General Meeting of my old sketchtastic friends, the Anarchist Guild Social Committee. Details in the new and improved gigs list to the right, and on the Where and When? page.
So yeah – it’s a big festival for the Man. And there’s more news to come, so stay tuned!
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