What's so funny!?

Taken from Lou Sanz on facebook:

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Hi guys,

If you haven't bought your ticket yet for the Skirt Network's "Skirting Around" this FRIDAY 25th SEPTEMBER @ 8.45pm at The Lithuanian Club, Errol St, North Melbourne...for the price of only $24...then you should - because we have some amazing acts!

Claire Hooper (Good News Week, Channel 10)
Claudia O'Doherty (From the award winning 'Pig Island')
Karin Muiznieks (World War Wonderful)
Poet Laureate Telia Neville (Best Comedy Writing, Short and Sweet)
Isabel Hertaeg (La Petite Mort)
Nelly Thomas (Winner: National Triple J Raw Comedy Competition 2003)
Kate Boston-Smith (a new little treat)
Felicity Ward (Best Newcomer, Melbourne Fringe 2008)
The Cloud Girls (Triple J)
Super Girly (BBC UK)
Andrea Powell and Geraldine Hickey (you'll just have to wait and see)
Lou Sanz (Moosehead Award Recipient 2009)
Kate Mclennan (Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Award and the Most Outstanding Newcomer for her critically acclaimed one-woman show “The Debutante Diaries" 2006)
Kelly Fastuca (...she wants to go the logies, we really can't ellaborate more)
Bron Batten (The Last Tuesday Society)
Geraldine Quinn (2006 Green Room Award WINNER - 'Best Emerging Cabaret Artist)
Celia Pacquola (Age Critics Award 2009)

Ok, so it's a lot - but what a great way to kick off your fringe festival.

Tickets can be bought here: http://tix.melbournefringe.com.au/session.asp?s=168

Look forward to seeing you there.

The Skirt Network
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While I'm not that fond of Dave Hughes, I know lots of people out there are. Whether it's his 'agro' episodes, his voice or his everyman appeal, it's up to you. Check out his comic talent in his new DVD:

[From the press release]
Dave Hughes is perhaps one of the most important and significant talents to have emerged from the Australian comedy scene in the last ten years. A natural and un- mistakably Australian comic, Dave’s laconic style thinly disguises one of the fastest comic minds this country has ever seen.

It was at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1999 that Hughesy was forced to move from a tiny upstairs city bar into a 300-seat room at the Melbourne Town Hall. Word had started to spread about this impossibly laid back guy from Warrnambool.

Since 1999, the word has spread even further and Hughesy has become one of the biggest and most loved names in Australian stand up comedy. Honest and imperfect is how Australians like their comedy and Dave Hughes delivers exactly that in spades.

Along with Kate Langbroek, Hughesy makes up Mel- bourne’s Nova 100 breakfast team. He can be seen on Network Ten’s Before the Game during the AFL footy season, and on the highly successful light-entertain- ment program, Rove. And if that’s not enough, he can now also be seen on the new Channel 10 news enter- tainment program The 7PM Project.

His very first DVD, aptly titled Dave Hughes LIVE was released in September 2006 through Liberation Music. It quickly went on to go 7 times platinum.

The most powerful testimony to Dave’s talent is his enduring popularity with audiences. He has over the course of the last five years become one of the highest selling Australian comedy acts in the country. He hit the road in 2009, with his latest solo show offering, Dave Hughes is Handy. And now Liberation Music is proud to release the DVD of that show, Dave Hughes Is Handy. Featuring all brand new material, this new DVD cements Dave’s position at the top of the Australian comedy pantheon.

The DVD features a full length show recorded at the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, along with bonus features including exclusive backstage footage and ‘At Home With The Hugheses’, an intimate and personal look at Dave’s family life in his Melbourne home.

"Hughes has become one of the most appealing, and most powerful, comics around." Sydney Morning Herald
"Dave Hughes is one of the funniest men in a city that has produced many of Australia’s funniest people." Sunday Telegraph, Sydney
"Hughes is skilled, appealing to all and always in control. Excellent." The Age, Melbourne

Dave Hughes Is Handy is released August 21
through Liberation Music

[Taken from facebook site for The Skirt Network]

Lou Sanz:

Hi guys,

If you're in Melbourne this Thursday night might be a good night to come down and show some support for the Skirt Network. Some local lady comics are being filmed as part of a story on women in comedy and the network.

There are a few skirts on as well as some other acts so it will be a good night!

It's 10 dollars, it starts at 8 and it's at Vibe Bar, 123 Smith st. Fitzroy.

Sounds pretty good, hey?
Website: http://www.amicinhand.com

Your line up includes...

Claire Hooper
Geraldine Hickey
Mat Kenneally
Xavier Michaelides
Mickey D
Lou Sanz and one or two more

On Tuesday I was lucky enough to get tickets to another festival show, showcasing some of the best acts that the festival has to offer. Comedy Bites is an annual event put on by ABC radio 774 in Victoria. Of the 23 acts, the best ones were country music artist Wilson Dixon, Irish comedian Neil Delamer, UK’s Gordon Southern, UK regular Jeff Green (so regular he married a Melbourne girl) and part of the Comedy Zone – Smart Casual.

Get out and see something funny!

The sMile High Club launches tomorrow night at The Society Restaurant and is on the last Thursday of every month.

Tomorrow night will be hosted by Lawrence Mooney with comedians Dave O'Neill, Celia Pacquola and Raw Comedy grand finalist Ryan Coffey.

$15 for the show or $45 with a two-course dinner. Enjoy!

8:30pm at The Society Restaurant
23 Bourke St Melbourne
Telephone: 9639 2544

Studio A is a weekly entertainment show filmed in Melbourne for Channel 31. This Thursday it is having a fundraiser (for funding for the second season), featuring host David Thornton, plus special guests including comedy DJs Hamish and Andy, Dave O’Neil, Adam Rozenbachs, Justin Hamilton and Fox Klein. Make sure you get there and have a laugh for a good cause.

7:30pm at the Corner Hotel on Thursday, February 19

Going to the St Kilda Festival? Like to find a laugh or two?

Might be worth getting tickets to the St Kilda Laughs Festival Gala which is on at the National Theatre at 8pm on the 7th of Feb.

I couldn't find any information on the line-up, but I'm assured that it'll be a great show. Enjoy!

Try www.ticketmaster.com.au for information

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is heading out way, with tickets being released for such comedy greats as Dylan Moran, Russell Brand and Rhys Darby (Murray from Flight of the Conchords). Expect more tickets to be released every week!

But of equal importance is the Raw Comedy heats. Raw Comedy is a series of heats that are done across Australia looking for the next comedian you’ve never heard of. So if you’re funny, sign up as there are still places available. Otherwise, head down to a place where the heats are going on, snaffle a few beers and sit down for a laugh.

I’d love to head down, but damn my weekend job! I’ll definitely be at the final in Melbourne on the 18th of April.

From the website
Raw Comedy is on right now!

Heats are taking place at the moment in every capital city, and the regional schedule has been locked away.

Registrations are full in Melbourne and Sydney already, and Adelaide is getting close.

Get onto the Raw website at www.rawcomedy.com.au and find out when the next Raw gig is on, near you.

Check out the website to see when the heats are on! www.rawcomedy.com.au

You may have recalled that last year, Cheech and Chong (who rose to fame on the back of ‘stoner’ films of the 1970s).

Well, true to their word, the pair (looking a little greyer) are touring Australia during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with shows on the 17th and 18th of April.

From ticketmaster
Cheech & Chong are back on the road for the first time in more than 25 years and ready to `Light Up Australia` with their wonderfully wacky humour this April at the Palais Theatre.

Having enjoyed amazing success over the past 25 years with nine hit comedy albums, one Grammy award and eight hit films, their live show is destined to be low-brow comedy at its finest! The show will also feature Chong`s wife Shelby as the opening act.

Tickets go on sale 2nd of February
At Ticketmaster

Lynda Gibson was a great comedienne who succumbed to ovarian cancer several years ago. If you have a chance on Sunday in Melbourne, pop down to The Hifi and do your bit to support this worthy cause.

[From the website]
Doors open 4pm, Show starts 5pm

Some of Australia’s funniest comedians have come together again for the annual Lynda Gibson Memorial Comedy Event.

With the support of the comedy fraternity, this is the fourth annual event presented by Ovarian Cancer Australia. The gala comedy event aims to raise funds and awareness for ovarian cancer and celebrate the life of legendary Melbourne-based comedian Lynda Gibson. Lynda died in January 2004 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.

Join MC Alan Brough, Judith Lucy, Denise Scott, The Scared Weird Litte Guys, Brian Nankervis, Frank Woodley and many many more special guests including Stephen Cummings and Rebecca Barnard.

Sunday 9 November 2008 4:00 PM - 18+

Heath Franklin's Chopper is a tour de Force. If you haven't sat down with Chopper doing the weather, then you haven't had a great laugh at this great comedian. If you're looking for Aussie comedy, then this is a great example!

As part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Franklin will be on until the 11th of October, but dates continue in the rest of Australia till the end of the year.

Check him out now!

[From the website www.laughingstock.com.au]
Every 3 seconds, somebody, somewhere in the world is being a deadshit.

Now, look at the person to the left of you, now the one on the right, chances are one of the people you just looked at is also a deadshit. Now, if you looked right when I asked you to look left…yes, you’re a deadshit too.

After 2007’s record sell-out success, Harden the Fuck Up Australia, Heath Franklin's Chopper (Network 10’s The Ronnie Johns Half Hour) is back, head-butting his way across the country, tackling an issue bigger than world poverty or global warming - eradicating the terminally stupid.

In a world that is designed to protect people from their own stupidity, Chopper is worried that natural selection isn't getting a fair go. Bono, Chris Martin, Bob Geldof - all the songs and all the concerts in the world aren’t going to change the fact, the world has never been a safer place for total deadsh*ts. So, forget Band Aid, Live Aid, Whinge F*ckin’ Whinge Aid - finally there’s a cause we can all get behind, and a celebrity who has the moustache to pull it off.

From the creative mind who gave you cutting off peoples toes for money, headbutting mothers and lots of f-words comes a new show about deadshits and the people who hate them. So, donate today, help Chopper help you ‘Make Deadshits History’.

Together, we can do this.

Check out www.laughingstock.com.au for dates

Amongst all the great comedy that finds its way into Melbourne (e.g. Bill Bailey this weekend) there is always time to laugh for a good cause. This time it’s the ladies turn to make with the funny.

Short and Girly is a comedy show where some of the finest female comedians in Australia are raising money for the Victorian AIDS Council.

[From their website]
A brilliant lineup showcasing some of the finest comic talent in Australia. Big laughs for a great cause. Funny bones will be tickled. Socks shall be laughed off. Stomach muscles guaranteed to quiver with hilarity. Short and Girly is an all-gal comedy gala raising money for the Victorian AIDS Council.

Hosted by Rachel Berger. Featuring an all-star female cast including Judith Lucy, Cal Wilson (Thank God You're Here), Claire Hooper (Good News Week), Denise Scott (Spicks and Specks), Sue-Ann Post, Monica Dullard, Hannah Gadsby (RAW Comedy winner 2006) and Ethel Chop (aka Andrea Powell). Produced by Janet A. Mcleod

The National Theatre is on the corner of Carlisle and Barkly Street, St. Kilda - 20 Carlisle Street to be exact - Starts 8:00pm. Book tickets early to avoid disappointment! Tix $55/45 conc. Groups of 8 or more $50

October 3 at The National Theatre
Tickets available from www.ticketek.com