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Premium Content Subscriber only Mackay residents are spoiled for choice this May Day long weekend with a social calendar chock-full of events.   When: 7.30pm, Sunday May 2 Where: Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre, Alfred Street, Mackay What's happening: Renowned Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated artist Toni Childs will perform in Mackay to support the Daily Mercury's Hub for our Heroes campaign. Toni Childs will appear at Tanks Art Centre. Picture: supplied. Inspired by her father and her own mental health struggles, Toni Childs backs PTSD Frontline's mission alongside Sir P...

Premium Content Subscriber only Carl Donnelly is a British comedian who has luckily been allowed to return to Australia to tour the land down under as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. The new father, whose wife is from Melbourne, said he was over the moon to be let back into the country. The double Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee will tour the country as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow where he'll head north to play to audiences in Greater Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, and Toowoomba, among others. And he's heading through Central Queensland to Gladstone on April 29 and...

Deadly Funny final beats the dross from Sloss We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Tyson Wray Normal text size Forum Melbourne, April 17 For 15 years Deadly Funny has been unearthing Australia’s finest First Nations comedians – alumni include Steph Tisdell, Kevin Kropinyeri, Andy Saunders and Sean Choolburra. Jahmarley Dawson at Deadly Funny. Credit:Jim Lee Hosted by Dane Simpson (who participated in the competition in 2015), 2021’s grand final saw 16 acts from around the country sparring on stage with their best five minutes. Jay Wyma...

Melbourne Comedy Show to hit Pilbeam Theatre Kirsty Weback, Dane Simpson, Matt Ford, Mel Buttle and Carl Donnell are in the line up for the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow at the Pilbeam Theatre later this month. Entertainment Staff writers Premium Content Subscriber only The Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow is about to hit the road and Rockhampton is on the schedule, pinned for April. The stellar lineup features Australian and international acts. More than any year before, the comedians are champing at the bit to break out from the barriers, sha...

Meet Melbourne’s rising stars set to battle it out at the RAW Comedy National Grand Final Prue Blake Like superheroes, stand up comics have their own unique origin stories. For Prue Blake, it was two years ago when she was in a pizza cafe in Copenhagen, by chance listening to a Danish cover of Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’, when a text came through. It was her ex-boyfriend, after they broke up only a few days earlier. “Something about that just clicked something in me,” she recalls. “We broke up on a Friday. I booked flights that day, left on the Sunday, went to Co...