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 .
Come on William and Harry, let s hug it out
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Come on William and Harry, let s hug it out
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And Daniel Sloss takes People s Choice
Geraldine Hickey has won the top prize at the the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The comic scooped the prize for most outstanding show for What A Surprise, which told how she had found happiness in life at 40 with a job and partner she loved.
It received a slew of glowing reports including five stars from Melbourne newspaper The Age and four from Chortle.
Accepting Hickey award she said it took her ‘many, many years,’ to get where she was, adding that she would dedicated the accoade to ‘anyone who’s in the middle of their career and at the tipping point of, Is this working? Should I keep going? No one notices me. Keep going. ’Cause I did. And look at me now.’