Melbourne International Comedy Festival reveals 2021 award nominees Ivan Aristeguieta, Luke Heggie and Geraldine Hickey
Words by Tom Parker
After weeks of festivity and hilarity, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival award nominees are here.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has just announced their 2021 award nominees, with shortlists for Most Outstanding Show, The Golden Gibbo and Best Newcomer awards now here.
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The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has revealed its 2021 award nominations
There are shortlists for Most Outstanding Show, The Golden Gibbo and Best Newcomer awards
The award winners will be announced on Saturday April 17
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Melbourne Town Hall, April 11
After 64 heats and finals and a record 1183 entrants, Australiaâs largest open mic competition had finally whittled down the shortlist to 12 aspiring comedians to see who would join the RAW Comedy alumni such as Hannah Gadsby, Ronny Chieng and Celia Pacquola.
Prue Blake, winner of RAW Comedy.
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Hosted by the jovial Dane Simpson, Mathew Hespe kicked things off and set the bar with material on a reciprocal problem-sharing psychologist and Tiger Woodsâ infidelity; Kelly Gulliver followed with more commonplace stories of the problems of being of a single mother; and Jayde OâBrien (one of two acts to receive a special mention from the judges) floored the room with a blistering set of growing up ignorant of her familyâs poverty, li
Science is all about questions â but how many of these can you get right?
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Is this a beaker full of science and comedy quiz questions? No, it s microalgae.
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Science is all about questions. What is the sun? Why is gravity? I wonder what would happen if we made this thing go super fast and then smashed it into little bits?
Quiz shows are also, in their way, about questions, although even the best ones rarely come close to science s potential to create a black hole that destroys the universe. What they do have over science, though, is a hard time limit to actually get answers.