MICF: Viggo Venn – Pepito
Pepito is a beautiful French idiot who will steal your heart. The charming alter ego of Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn (from MICF smash hit duo Zach & Viggo Thunderflop) is back at the Melbourne International Comedy F...
Category: Comedy
MICF: Mark Watson – I’m Not Here
I’m Not Here involves an account of Welsh comic Mark Watson’s last trip to Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2015. It might also hint at the circumstances that lead to his absence between then and now. Regardles...
MICF: Mel Buttle – Dog Bitch
The title of Mel Buttle’s new show references the reaction of some dude in a pub to her love of canines. She wasn’t always this way though, and this offering (sort of) sketches out her journey from pooch sceptic to Dog B...
MICF: Natalie Palamides – Laid
Laid is majestic anarchy. Whether audience or artist, Laid is compulsory viewing at this year’s comedy festival. Beyond superlatives, beyond the thesaurus, beyond any frame of reference that a show could be compared to, ...
MICF: The Kagools – Kula
Sometimes we all need a change of scene. English mime duo The Kagools have this in mind in their new show Kula. The result is a very funny expedition to the frontiers of physical comedy. Last in Melbourne with highly mem...
MICF: Dead Men Tell No Jokes
The title of this parody of the Pirates of the Caribbean series – Dead Men Tell No Jokes – doesn’t tell the whole story; the living can have some problems too. These were sometimes technical; some players had...
MICF: Sean Patton – Number One
In a programme of about 600 shows at MICF 2018, it helps to have a point of difference. Sean Patton has the hook of being from the ‘drunken voodoo pirate city’ of New Orleans. Given that upbringing, we might have expecte...
MICF: DeAnne Smith – Worth It
Just before the official start, Smith advised that Worth It wasn’t going to be about money, as the MICF guide indicated. Instead of being that show from the Canadian’s brain, this would be “the show from her heart”. I wa...