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Melbourne International Comedy Festival

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Comedy review: Anisa Nandaula: You Can't Say That, The Victoria Hotel

What's it like being a black girl in Australia?

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Comedy review: Ting Lim: What I Really Think, QT, MICF 2025

Cheerful comedy from a stand-up on the rise.

Against a yellow and orange backdrop a woman is carrying a hobby horse. She is also wearing horses ears hat.
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Comedy review: Elf Lyons: Horses, Malthouse Theatre, MICF 2025

Elf Lyons is definitely horsing around.

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Comedy review: Lewis Garnham: Stream of Contentedness, Spleen Bar, MICF 2025

Lewis Garnham shows why the world really is a strange place.

A blond bespectacled (trans) man surrounded by a pile of jeans.
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Comedy reviews: Lou Wall: Breaking the Fifth Wall, Eddie Pattison: Dad Genes, MICF 2025

An award-winner questions the veracity of everything, while new talent Pattison shares their experience of losing a father, just as…

Against an orange backdrop, two men are holding up books. One is wearing a red t-shirt, the other one a blue one. The letter 'J' is printed on the white overalls.
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Comedy review: Jon & Jero: The Forgotten Tales, ACMI, MICF 2025

Fun improv comedy for the kids.

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Comedy review: He Huang: White Man's Burden, Portrait Room, Town Hall, MICF 2025

An edgy, confrontational and often hilarious slap in the sociocultural face.

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Comedy review: Jenny Tian: Jenny's Travels, Supper Room, Town Hall, MICF 2025

Finnish-Chinese-Australian returns from London with a great new show as a souvenir.

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Comedy reviews: Asian Allstars Gala, Cameron James: Broken Record, MICF 2025

A mixed assortment of comics and a muso storyteller.

Two Caucasian women side by side from the waist up with their elbows in leaning on a surface in front of them. The one on the left haas shoulder length dark hair, black rimmed glasses and a dark striped jumper, the one on the right has long fair hair, 60s eye make-up and is cradling her chin with her hands.
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Comedy review: Flo and Joan: The Joan and Flo Show, Lower Town Hall, MICF 2025

'I Drank Too Much' is as brilliant as ever but, happily, the seasoned comic duo have plenty more extremely funny…

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