June is when most comedy tours finish up here in Oz for a few months as flocks of comedians head north for the comedy festivals of Edinburgh, Montreal and various smaller summer comedy festivals in the northern hemisphere. So the next few weeks are your best chance to catch top comics putting those finishing touches to the shows they’ve been working on all this year. (Of course their absence in July/August means that our winters are the best months to go to your local comedy room to see emerging talent alongside the veterans who’ve done their festival rounds years ago.)

Update: The QPAC In Stitches Comedy Festival 17-29 June at the Queensland Performing Arts Festival - see new post with full details.

Touring now:

• Frank Woodley: Possessed
  Playhouse, Sydney Opera House until 29th June
  Ticket agent:
  Box Office, Sydney Opera House: (02) 92507777 [link]
• Rachel Berger: Hold The Pickle
  June 18th – June 29th
  La Mama Theatre 205 Faraday street Carlton
  Bookings: (03) 9347 6142 | Email: bookings@lamama.com.au
• Scared Weird Little Guys
  Tweed Heads 14th June, QPAC Comedy Festival 23rd-29th June
• Eddie Ift - heading back to the US for July
  13 Jun 2008 Perth
  16 Jun 2008 The Fringe Bar Sydney
  17 Jun 2008 The Harold Park Hotel Sydney
  18 Jun 2008 Oatley Hotel Sydney
  20 Jun 2008 The Gold Coast Arts Centre Surfers Paradise
  20 Jun 2008 The Laugh Garage Parametta
  23 Jun 2008 The Manly Boatshed Manly Beach
  24 Jun 2008 The Gaelic Club Sydney
  25/26 Jun 2008 The Comedy Store Parramtta
  27 Jun 2008 Carlingford Bowling Club Sydney
  28 Jun 2008 The Comedy Store Parramatta
• Garry Who, Ross Daniels, Austen Tayshus, Elliot Goblet, George Smilovici: Legends of Australian Comedy National Tour
  Saturday 14 June 8pm NSW Blacktown RSL Club
  Friday 20 June 8pm NSW South Sydney Juniors
  Friday 27 June 8pm NSW Revesby Workers Club - Whitlam Theatre
• Heath Franklin’s Chopper: Make Deadshits History Tour
  This tour’s season was originally meant to end this last weekend, but there’s certainly at least one further show announced:
  Mackay 21 June [link]
• MICF Roadshow: top Aussie acts touring the regional centres (and the occasional urban agglomeration too), selected from the performers at this years Melbourne comedy festival.

  NSW
  Bathurst Bathurst Memorial Ent. Centre 10 June 02 6333 6161
  Parramatta Riverside Theatres 11 June 02 8839 3399
  Canberra Canberra Theatre Centre 13 & 14 June 02 6275 2700
  Nowra Bomaderry Bowling Club 15 June 02 4421 2733
  Liverpool Casula Powerhouse 17 June 132 849
  Penrith Evan Theatre - Penrith Panthers 18 June 02 4720 5555
  Enmore Enmore Theatre 19 & 20 June 02 9550 3666
  Revesby Revesby Workers Club 21 June 02 9772 2100
  Castle Hill Castle Hill RSL Club 22 June 02 8858 4800

  WA
  Perth His Majesty’s Theatre 10 - 15 June 08 9484 1133
  Kalgoorlie Goldfields Arts Centre 17 June 08 9088 6900
  Esperance Esperance Civic Centre 18 June 08 9083 1566

  VIC
  Wycheproof Wycheproof Shire Hall 28 June 03 5493 7455

  SA
  Port Lincoln Nautilus Theatre 20 June 08 8683 5088
  Whyalla Middleback Theatre 21 June 08 8644 7300
  Roxby Downs Cultural Precinct Auditorium 22 June 08 8671 2001
  Port Augusta The Institute Theatre 23 June 08 8641 9176
  Port Pirie Keith Michell Theatre 24 June 08 8633 8500
  Renmark Chaffey Theatre 26 June 08 8586 1800
  Noarlunga Noarlunga College Theatre 27 June 08 8225 8888

Please plug other touring shows that haven’t blipped my radar yet in comments.

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