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Geraldine Hickey nabs Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s top gong We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Comedian Geraldine Hickey has taken home the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s top honour thanks to her latest offering, What a Surprise. The award, which up until two years ago was named after veteran satirist Barry Humphries, recognises each festival’s most outstanding show. This year, Hickey gave audiences a hilarious snapshot of her relationship with her now-wife. The sh...

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 an...