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Garry Starr wins Most Outstanding Show award at Melbourne International Comedy Festival

A one-man clown show about Penguin Classics has won MICF 2025's Most Outstanding Show award; a range of other comedians were also awarded.
20 Apr 2025 13:54
Richard Watts
MICF 2025 award winners group photo; Garry Starr (aka clown Damien Warren-Smith) reclines at the front.

MICF 2025 award-winners group photo; Garry Starr (aka clown Damien Warren-Smith) reclines at the front. Photo: Supplied.

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Garry Starr: Classic Penguins, which ArtsHub awarded a coveted five stars, describing it as “hilarious, in-your-face and flawless“, has taken out Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s (MICF) highest honour.

On Saturday (19 April), Starr’s one-man clown show (created and performed by Damien Warren-Smith), received MICF’s 2025 Most Outstanding Show award.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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