The Cracker Comedy Festival officially ended last weekend, but there are still some shows completing their Sydney runs: Prequels & Sequels Impro (Sunday), Ross Noble (Thurs-Mon) & George Kapiniaris (Saturday). [website]

Eddie Ifft headlines at The Comedy Store in Sydney’s Moore Park Entertainment Quarter all week, while Greg Fleet heads the show at their new Parramatta venue from Wednesday night. [website]

Wednesday at Comedy on the Rox is headed up by Subby Valentine with MC Tom Oakley wrangling the line-up for Heat #8 of the Quest for the Best Open Mic Competition[website]

Thursday:
A Mic in Hand @ The Friend in Hand Hotel: MC Subby Valentine, headliner Tom Bristol, guests Wil Anderson and Tom Gleeson, plus open-mic [website]

The Sackville Hotel, Rozelle: Mick Meredith, Chris Radburn, Bruce Griffiths [website]

Friday:
* Scared Scriptless @ the Clarence Hotel Petersham [website]
* The Big Laugh Festival presents comedy cabaret at the Riverside Theatre with the Six Quick Chicks: rolling lineup from among Vashti Hughes, Liesel Badorrek, Annabel Lines, Celia Curtis, Lucy Suze Taylor, Christa Hughes, Jackie Loeb, Jessie Hobeck, Holly Austin, Jen Moore and Keely Jobe[book online]

Saturday: The Laugh Garage’s Parramatta Rafferty’s venue is showing Brett Nichols, Ray Badran, Keith Scott [website]

Next Monday
* Manly Boatshed: A-List Comedy Club with Eddie Ifft, Sally Kimpton, Seamus McAlary, Khaled Ph: (02) 99774443
* Paddington’s The Fringe Bar: Garry Who with Daniel Moore and Clint Paddison [website]

If I’ve overlooked your gig please do add it in comments.

Tags: Annabel Lines, Brett Nichols, Bruce Griffiths, Celia Curtis, Chris Radburn, Christa Hughes, Clint Paddison, Cracker Comedy Festival, Daniel Moore, Eddie Ifft, Garry Who, George Kapiniaris, Greg Fleet, Holly Austin, Impro Australia, Jackie Loeb, Jen Moore, Jessie Hobeck, Keely Jobe, Keith Scott, Khaled, Liesel Badorrek, Lucy Suze Taylor, Mick Meredith, open-mic, Ray Badran, Ross Noble, Sally Kimpton, Seamus McAlary, Subby Valentine, Tom Oakley, Vashti Hughes

SMH Stay In Touch:

• Wil Anderson’s new ABC-TV show The Gruen Transfer is generating buzz:
  

  The ABC’s resident rabblerousers have more tricks up their sleeve after spoof commercials prompted more than 250 complaints in the past week - and became YouTube hits.

• Lawrence Leung has been named the best local comedian at the Cracker Comedy Festival awards.
  

  Other winners were Ross Noble, who won the Time Out readers’ choice award, Mark Watson, who won the best of the fest gong, and Amelia Jane Hunter and Hannah Gadsby, who won the director’s special award for Meat the Musical. Winners took home Golden Chickens from the awards ceremony at the Enmore Theatre.

The Age’s Kate Duthie reviews the new SBS comedy show featuring Muslim performers, Salam Cafe. The show airs on Wednesdays at 10pm, and you can catch the first episode online via the SBS Salam Cafe page.

From The Australian, Michael Body discusses films featuring in the upcoming Sydney and Melbourne film festivals. The relevant comedy stuff:
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Tags: Amelia Jane Hunter, Barry Humphries, comedy festival, Cracker Comedy Festival, documentary, Enmore Theatre, film festival, Golden Chickens, Hannah Gadsby, Lawrence Leung, Mark Watson, MIFF, Oz-ploitation, Rhian Skirving, Ross Noble, Salam Cafe, SBS, Tim Minchin, Wil Anderson

It’s that time of year and I’m starting the site nearly at the end of it, with Sydney’s Cracker Comedy Festival ending on May 11. Oh well.

Check out the acts at the Cracker site by clicking on the image below:

Plenty of old favourites and some new faces too fronting up to the mic. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Andrew Stanley, Axis of Awesome, Brett Nichols, Chris Radburn, Cracker Comedy Festival, Dave Jory, Enmore Theatre, fresh ideas, fresh talent, George Kapiniaris, Impro Australia, Jimbo, Jimeoin, Julia Morris, Mark Watson, Ross Noble, Steve Patterson, Steve Philp, The Chaser, Yalumba Wine Bar