The slideshow below displays some posters for shows happening over the next week or two.

You can examine a poster in more detail, either
• mouse-over the top of the slideshow to pause it or slow down its speed
• click on a thumbnail (mouse-over the bottom of the slideshow) to view only that poster
• click on an poster to be given an option to visit a separate photo-page with larger sizes to view

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

To have your show’s poster added to the poster parade, please contact Viv for instructions.

Tags: A Regular One Night Stand, Busting Out, Comedy @ BBs, Comedy @ Marble Bar, Comedy Manifesto, Comedy on the Rox, Comedy Store, Comedy@Spleen, Comicide, Cranston Cup, Jamie Kilstein, Laugh Aid, Quest For The Best, Sackville Hotel, Taming the Devil, Tom Middlebrook, Wild West Comedy Fest

UPDATE: The technical issues with the slideshow are now resolved.

The posters in the slideshow below promote shows taking place next week. Click on one to stop the slideshow and give you the option to go to an image page where you may examine details more closely.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

If the slideshow above is not displaying for you, please follow this link instead. [slideshow]

Comedians/Promoters: If you have a show on next week and want to add it to the Poster Parade slideshow above, go to the Gagging For It Flickr group and follow the instructions. Your poster could be included within minutes! Send me an email, and I’ll give you instructions. My original plans for the Flickr Group display need to wait for Flickr to review the new group, so in the meantime I’ll need to rely on a workaround.

Everyone: please share links to any photos/videos of comedy shows that you have recently published online in comments. Please add a NSFW alert (Not Safe For viewing at Work) where appropriate due to language/content.

Tags: A Regular One Night Stand, Comedy @ BBs, Comedy @ Marble Bar, Comedy on the EDGE, Comedy on the Rox, Cranston Cup, Flickr group, poster parade, Pulp, Taming the Devil, technical problems, Wild West Comedy Fest

Last week saw the first Preliminary Final of the 2008 Quest for the Best, Australia’s richest comedy competition ($5000 Grand Prize) at Comedy on the Rox. Congratulations to the first two comics to go through to the November 26th Grand Final, Emo Willis and Amanda Gray!

Who will be the next 10 comics to make the Grand Final line-up? The next four weeks at Comedy on the Rox will tell! (If you want to catch any of the remaining preliminary finals, you can find the links on the Comedy on the Rox website (scroll down).)

But the biggest night is always the Grand Final, isn’t it? Last year’s Quest for the Best Grand Final’s 350-strong audience outgrew the Quest home, the Roxbury Hotel. So this year the Grand Final is on at a larger venue: the 600 seat St Scholastica School Hall down the road in Avenue Road, Glebe. (The Roxbury Hotel has been granted a temporary liquor license to serve alcohol at this event, but as with the regular shows the bar is separate from the performance area, so minors may still attend.) It starts early (6pm) to ensure that it’s all over by 10:30pm.

So, don’t delay (as they say), book today! A lot of people were disappointed last year, make sure it doesn’t happen to you this year.

Tags: Amanda Gray, Comedy on the Rox, contest, Emo Willis, Grand Final, Quest For The Best, Roxbury Hotel

Red Card Comedy
Roxbury Hotel, 182 St Johns Rd, Glebe
Next Show: Saturday 25th October 8pm
Tickets: $22.00 via Moshtix

I’m going along to see this one! Perhaps I’ll see you there - an excerpt from the Comedy on the Rox blurb is quoted below:

There’s no comedy night like Red Card Comedy. The audience surprises start from the moment they pick up their tickets till the final gong clangs. Book now to avoid desolation.

An Australian first, it is a sophisticated gong show with 16 up-and-coming comics trying to keep their audience laughing for five minutes.

Last man (or woman) standing is the winner.

Jacques Barrett will be the night’s “referee”.

To help Jacques keep control, three random audience members will be given red cards.

When two of the three judges hold up their red cards, the comic is gonged off.

Other audience members will be encouraged to get involved, urging the judges to put up their cards, or if the comic is a favorite, to take them down.

It promises to be a great night of fun, frivolity and audience interaction.

The large assortment of rising comics taking part in the melee is as follows:

• Jay Sullivan
• Emo Willis
• Paul Warnes
• Michele Mar-Belle
• Oliver Phommavanh
• Ray Cashman
• Evin Donohoe
• Lachlan Williams
• Daniel Connell
• Matthew Wells
• Ron Marriott
• Amanda Gray
• Mick Bradley
• John Cruickshank
• Darryl Cooper
• Dave Henningham

Red Card Comedy has sold out the last three shows - book now to avoid disappointment at the door! (And add our Coming Shows RSS feed to your feed-reader to make sure that you don’t miss being notified for the next one)

Tags: Amanda Gray, Comedy on the Rox, Daniel Connell, Darryl Cooper, Dave Henningham, Emo Williss, Evin Donohoe, Jacques Barrett, Jay Sullivan, John Cruickshank, Lachlan Williams, Matthew Wells, Michele Mar-Belle, Mick Bradley, Oliver Phommavanh, Paul Warnes, Ray Cashman, Red Card Comedy, Ron Marriott, Roxbury Hotel

If you can’t be arsed to be annoying to WYD pilgrims, why not at least have a giggle at the OTT Happy-Clappiness of it all? You can probably boo Iemma as well.

• Comedy on the Rox - Pope Benny’s Big Day Out
  Wednesday 16th July, 8pm @ Roxbury Hotel, 182 St Johns Rd, Glebe. Admission: $15/$12.
  A special World Youth Day heat of the Quest for the Best Open Mic contest - 12 young comics head to head, MC’ed by Josh Thomas (youngest ever winner of the Raw Comedy competition in 2005 aged only 17).
• Ragged Comedy - Mad, Mad Sydney week
  Wednesday 16th July, 8pm @ Lord Raglan Hotel, 12 Henderson St, Alexandria. - Free Entry
  Sydney’s gone mad, and so has Lord Raglan. It’s Christmas in July, with Santa and Yuletide going head to head with the Pope and Mass at the racecourse. MC Peter Green, headliner Barry Hamilton, and a whole bunch of comics wrestling in tinsel for the July “Lord of Comedy” title.
• Mic in Hand
  Thursday 17th July, 8pm @ Friend in Hand Pub, 58 Cowper St, Glebe.
  $10 suggested donation, $8 students
  Lineup - special guest The Pope (possibly in disguise), headliner Tommy Dean, MC Matthew Kenneally plus open mic
• Scared Scriptless
  Thursday 17th July, 7:30pm @ Harold Park Hotel, 70A Ross St, Glebe - $10 entry
  Their first night at new venue the Harold and it’s World Youth Day - who knows what might happen?

Enjoy!

Tags: Comedy on the Rox, Mic in Hand, Pope, Ragged Comedy, Santa, Scared Scriptless, themed comedy nights, World Youth Day, WYD

• Tonight it’s Heat #12 of the Quest for the Best open-mic contest. Ben Ellwood MCs, while Darren Sanders headlines and Nicky Talacko from Melbourne makes a guest appearance. 8 new comics will contest to progress from this heat.
• Next Wednesday it’s an escape from the footy as the Wicked Women go up against the State of Origin match in the 3rd Round for 2008. Mandy Nolan MCs, the headliner is Geraldine Quinn, and the following wicked women will also take the stage:
  * Kathryn Bendall
  * Donna Zhou
  * Ande Maddox
  * Marie Helou
  * Vanessa Ballard
  * Claire Dawson
  * Jodie Ekert
  * Linda Grasso

Tags: Ande Maddox, Ben Ellwood, Claire Dawson, Comedy on the Rox, Darren Sanders, Donna Zhou, Geraldine Quinn, Jodie Ekert, Kathryn Bendall, Linda Grasso, Mandy Nolan, Marie Helou, Nicky Talacko, Quest For The Best, State of Origin, Vanessa Ballard, Wicked Women