MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL SPECIAL!!!
8pm
Tuesday 25th May 2010
The Parrot pub
1-9 Church Lane
Canterbury
CT1 2AG
The extraordinarily fun and fantabulous Melbourne International Comedy Festival is one of the THREE BIGGEST comedy festivals in the world, the other two being the Edinburgh Comedy Festival and the Montreal Just for Laughs Fest! This month Chatback Comedy are bringing you The Best of the Fest, featuring extracts from three of the top shows at this year’s festival.
JAMES DOWDESWELL
in his Melbourne Comedy Festival 2010 show:
MY GRANDAD WAS A CLOWN AND THOSE ARE BIG SHOES TO FILL
Count F*ckula in 'Extras' (BBC)
The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy Channel)
Edinburgh and Beyond (Paramount Comedy Channel)
****Three Weeks
**** Chortle
'Intelligent and inventive' The List
'like Eminem rapping Shakespeare' Venue Magazine
'lean, well-written comedy' Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard
'feel good comedy with a capital F' Three Weeks
'It is a genuine pleasure to be in the company of this master gag smith for an hour, an experience that few should really pass up." Chortle
SARAH BENNETTO
in her Melbourne Comedy Festival 2010 show:
THE KING & I
Credits Include:
Take the Mic (ITV)
Edinburgh Fringe (2002 & 2003 & 2005 & 2007) and Melbourne Comedy Festival and End of the Road Festival (2006-09)
Host, Co-Presenter & Peformer: (Sky's Soundtrack Channel), Laugh Radio (Australia). Stephen Merchant's BBC 6 Music show (BBC 6 Music), Live segments with Christian O'Connell (London's Xfm), Festival FM, Vox Radio
Narrator and Creator: Experimental comedy collective 'Storyteller's Club'
**** Three Weeks
"Feisty" -Time Out, London
"A storyteller par excellence." Time Out, London
"Sarah Bennetto is a winner. And now she can add a corker of a comedy festival show to her list." The Groggy Squirrel
"Effervescent, confident and well-structured stand-up." The Age
"she is such a skillful raconteur, not only coaxing big laughs but also those moments of poignancy and inspiration to which so many performers don't even get close." ThreeWeeks (UK)
"But the undeniable star of the show is the scintillating storyteller who is our hostess, narrator and raconteur, Sarah Bennetto." Broadway Baby
"Her amusing anecdotes highlighted the importance of locking toilet doors, and why quiche and misogyny are inextricably linked." Three Weeks
in his Melbourne Comedy Show:
96 AND ONE HALF THINGS THAT @#$% ME OFF
The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy Channel)
Grand Finalist- Take the Mic - (ITV)
Raw Comedy Grand Final (ABC TV, AUS)
End of the Road Music Festival, Salisbury – 2006-07, 2009
Leeds Music Festival 2005-07
Reading Music Festival 2005-06, 2008
Four one man comedy shows at the Edinburgh Comedy Fringe Festival 2006-09
'A sparklingly intelligent and very funny man' Chortle
'Smart, pacy and above all very very funny' Chortle
'An accomplished and charming performance' Three Weeks
‘Sharp Social Commentary' Chortle
'The most memorable act' Comedy Down Under.com
'the best comedy writing that clarifies and crystallises your own views' Chortle
