Photo by Bri Hammond
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!!!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival announces 2021 award winners beat.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from beat.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.’
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
After the year we’ve had, we could all do with a laugh.
Stand-up comedian Daniel Connell has certainly seen a thirst for live humour with sellout crowds flocking to this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
“Everybody is rapt that it’s happening. There’s a spring in our steps.
“All the crowds are just happy to be out. They’re all excited and into it – they’re keen from the get-go.”
Connell is MC for the festival’s roadshow which is stopping in Dandenong on Friday 23 April.
The roadshow features a line-up including Connell, musical humorist Jude Perl, headline act Dilruk Jayasinha and other stand-ups from the festival.
Woah, Alyssa! Woah, Alyssa! 3
The award for best show was previously called the Barry Award in honour of Barry Humphries, but renamed in 2019 following comments the Dame Edna made about transgender people, and a growing sense that the award’s name should be more inclusive.
The 2019 award went to James Acaster for his show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999.
Winners will be announced on Saturday, alongside the recipients of the People’s Choice Award, the Directors’ Choice Award and the Piece of Wood, given to the comedians’ comedian.
Published: