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Katie welcomes her first flesh-and-blood guest to the studio for over a year! It’s comedian, speaker and author Mandy Nolan, who is in town for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to do a show with Irish-Australian singer-songwriter Áine Tyrrell. Mandy and Áine live in Mullumbimby, near Byron Bay, and have been performing their Country Witches Association show around Australia since late 2019. Katie gets Áine on the phone and the three women have a yarn about feminism, politics, music, comedy and more. There’s also music by Áine, Valerie June, Hot Potato Band and Charm of Finches! Here is the playlist:
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.
What you need to know
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
Get all the latest comedy news and reviews
Pants on Fire Melbourne
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Pants On Fire, live on-stage at Andrew Kay’s brand new venue Brunswick Ballroom.
Two teams of well known showbiz types from comedy, television, film, music and more; compete to see who is the greatest bullshit artist of them all.
Pants on Fire is a live on-stage panel game, which started as a way to stay sane during lockdown and now explodes live onstage.
Host Karen Davitt (Blue Heelers, Skirts, All Day Fritz) is joined every Wednesday evening (starting March 24) by headliner performers from the Melbourne Comedy Festival and beyond including:
Jane Clifton, Geraldine Hickey, Brian Nankervis, Derek Guille, Dave O’Neil, Anna Go-Go, Adam Zwar, Fiona Scott Norman, Russell Fletcher, Alison Ferrier, Dan Witton, Fahey Younger, Dylan Lewis and more to be announced, not to mention surprise kamikaze guests from the audience itself.