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No laughing matter So, over the last month Melbourne emerged from a year of misery and lockdowns to resume one of its great cultural institutions: the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (minus the international element this year, for obvious reasons). And yet, to read one of the city s two daily papers you d barely know it was going on.
We had a look through the
Herald Sun for references to the MICF and we found only two stories mentioning the actual festival one an intro to the event, and one a combination of two reviews. But this is a major event in the city the
I ve been off the booze lately. I m not Eat Pray Love-ing my life or anything like that. In fact I ve not even seen that movie so I m not sure if that reference checks out but it feels right doesn t it? As a result I closed my show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on the weekend and instead of heading out on the town to celebrate with a glass or two of personality, I found myself tucked up in bed by 9pm watching the funeral of Prince Philip. As I ve stated before I am pretty on the fence on all things Royal. Seeing the Queen sitting alone in the chapel did tug at even my normally impenetrable heart strings (IÂ always say that to sound cool but I m really a blubbering mess in real life). As the BBC commentators kept mentioning the Duke had planned every last detail of this funeral. All the decisions were his .
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Huge congratulations to Geraldine Hickey, who took out the award for the Most Outstanding Show at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We’re so happy for you, Gez. What a massive achievement! You can tune in to hear Gez on the
Breakfasters, each weekday between 6am and 9am.
Congrats also to
Breakfasters regular Friday Funnybugger Nat Harris, whose comedy show with Hannah Camilleri won the Golden Gibbo Award!
Onya, you two!!!
Tuesday 20th April / presented by Jeff Bullen
Comedian, writer and actress
Nina Oyama started out on stage at 19, and counts being a possum mascot on ABC music show The Set in her previous experience. She has also worked on The Chaser, The Project, and Utopia, and was a Best Newcomer Nominee at the
2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
She chats via phone with
On The Record about her previous work, and about her upcoming new show Nina Oyama - Is Doing Me Right Now at the
Perth Comedy
Chaser sent out a second press release on Thursday afternoon.
The Chaser even noted how the top search result for fairy bread at the time was still Fordham calling the whole thing a sham.
“We thought it had fallen through when nothing went out that afternoon, but instead it turns out
News had held it off for their lead 8am headline across all their digital mastheads the next morning,” Caz continued. “Not a single journalist from our press release the next week got in contact. News Corp just went and ran the story without even the most basic journalistic checks.”