Are you funnier than a small dog?

In a quintessential Fringe performance, a group of alternative comedians will try to avoid being upstaged by a dog.
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In a quintessential Fringe performance, a group of alternative comedians will try to avoid being upstaged by a dog.

The Experiment, premiering at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, aims to discover if some of Australia’s best alternative comedians can be more entertaining than a small hound.

Alongside comedians such as Madeline Tucker, Xavier Michelides, Josh Earl, Sabrina D’Angelo and Barry Award winner Randy, each performance will feature a ‘best small dog’ competition, with a cash prize of $15 awarded to the winning pooch; if no dog is present or all are too enormous then the prize will jackpot.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts