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[10 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Comedy for Christmas? By now many of you will have already had your workplace's festive night out, and maybe (just maybe) it wasn't that crash hot watching the office clown do the same routine as for the last five years. So why not go out for a night that you'll really enjoy, with professional comic entertainers? Continue reading

Sydney, contest, reviews, stand-up »

[29 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
Quest for the Best Grand Final: a great night for comedy This article has been updated since first publication

Like nearly everybody else who is interested in comedy in Sydney, I was at the Santa Scholastica College Auditorium on Wednesday night to see 12 rising comics strut their stuff for the chance to be the night's winner of a cheque for $5,000. Having had to turn hundreds away from last year's Grand Final at the normal Comedy on the Rox venue at the Roxbury Hotel, this year Kathryn Bendall decided to rent a larger space and see if she could fill it with a capacity crowd. An audience of 750 people proved that she could.


The crowd was full of the contestants' friends, family and supportive work colleagues, as many as possible there to vote for their favourite, because the contest goes to the comic who gets the most audience votes. Continue reading

poster parade »

[21 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
The slideshow below displays some posters for shows happening over the next week or two. Continue reading

Melbourne, Sydney, musical, open-mic, stand-up, video »

[16 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
Manchoir: who knew there were this many blokey comedians in Sydney who can sing (acapella, too)? The video below was recorded at this year's Celebrity Theatresports(R) at the Enmore Theatre. Manchoir are doing a few shows over the next two months (details below video). Highway to Hell - Performed by Manchoir from Manchoir on Vimeo. Performances in November: (see the Manchoir Facebook group for updates… Continue reading