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Hobart to host new comedy festival in 2024

Building on Hobart’s strong local comedy scene and presented by the team behind Dark Mofo, the new festival will run for three days in March next year.

14 Nov 2023 22:42

Richard Watts

Hobart Festival of Comedy. Image is of a man wearing a lot of makeup and sporting a huge open mouthed grin, while standing in a blue strobing spotlight.

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Reuben Kaye’s ‘APOCALIPSTICK’ will play the Hobart Festival of Comedy 2024. Photo: Hobart Festival of Comedy 2024.

The newly announced Hobart Festival of Comedy will run from 22–24 March, with headliners including a mix of international and mainland acts including South African-raised, New Zealand-based Urzila Carlson, Irish comedian Ed Byrne and Victoria’s Geraldine Hickey, winner of the award for most outstanding show at the 2021 Melbourne Comedy Festival.

‘Having the Festival scheduled between Adelaide Fringe Festival and before Melbourne International Comedy Festival means we’ve been able to program artists that might not usually consider a trip down to Hobart,’ she added.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts