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Melbourne International Comedy Festival, one of the world’s great comedy festivals and one of our largest & most loved cultural events. 26 Mar - 20 Apr 25 #MICF
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The winner of The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award 2019 for the most outstanding show is James Acaster!
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Vale Sean Lock, friend and inspiration to legions of comedians the world over and loved by a massive audience of fans. Thanks for the laughs!
Pic: Sean with friends Bill Bailey, Arj Barker and Phil Nichol, MICF 2005
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The winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award 2021 for the most outstanding show is Geraldine Hickey!
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It’s with great excitement that we announce the winner for the 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show is Rhys Nicholson!
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It's with a heavy heart we say, following the PM's announcement about non-essential mass gatherings, we have made the very difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Festival. We’re devastated by the news and look forward to sharing a laugh with you again soon.
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Celeb Five are here! Making a very limited appearance at the Festival, these YouTube sensations are not to be missed. An insane set at Upfront last night, a free show at The (Very) Big Laugh Out this afternoon, and then at Festival Club tomorrow night! Huge.
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And the 2017 Barry Award winner, with most outstanding show of the Fest, is
@Hannahgadsby
! A huge congratulations to all the nominees!
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And finally, the Barry Award for best show of the Festival goes to Sam Campbell!
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The news of Barry Humphries’ passing in the last 24 hours of the ’23 Fest was momentous. From today we re-group and start to plan a fitting tribute to his comic genius and leading role in creating a global platform for Australian comedy.
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We are so excited to announce the nominees for the 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show are Aaron Chen, Cameron James, Danielle Walker, Geraldine Quinn, Greg Larsen, Laura Davis and Rhys Nicholson.
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We are excited to announce the 2022 winner of The Pinder Prize is Danielle Walker!
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Melbourne, we did it 🧡🧡🧡
26 days of laughing, cackling, snorting and everything in between. Thank you to the comedians for sharing your stories and thank you to Melbourne for embracing us back into your arms. It feels good to be laughing again. See you next year!
#MICF
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Announcing the nominees for The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award 2019 for the most outstanding show are Anne Edmonds, Cassie Workman, Geraldine Hickey, James Acaster, Nath Valvo and Tom Allen.
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The People’s Choice Award for the most popular show of the Festival, as determined by the ticket buying public, goes to Urzila Carlson!
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Red-y or not, here we come!
We are so thrilled to show off our brand new 2022 look. With artwork by Melbourne-based David Booth, you’ll soon be seeing this ray of sunshine all over the place as we paint the town red ❤️ ☀️
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The Pinder Prize, honouring the late Comedy Festival co-founder John Pinder is awarded to Demi Lardner!
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The Barry Award nominees for 2018 are Natalie Palamides, Helen Bidou, Tim Key, Celia Pacquola, Lano & Woodley, Alex Edelman, Sam Campbell and Rose Matafeo!
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Big news for Aussie comedy! Judith Lucy, Tom Gleeson, Celia Pacquola, Alice Fraser, Dilruk Jayasinha, Lano & Woodley, Tommy Little, Anne Edmonds, Tom Walker and Zoë Coombs Marr are filming comedy specials for Amazon Prime! Huge 🙌
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Hey it's Becky Lucas here! I was banned off twitter for threatening the prime minister so really fun to be back! cc:
@ScottMorrisonMP
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It's with HUGE excitement that we announce The Gala proudly supporting Oxfam will be hosted by Becky Lucas (
@pleaseletmestay
), while the
@AuntyDonnaBoys
will take the reins of the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow. These legends are going to do us proud, we just know it 🙌
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It's with great excitement that we announce that the nominees for the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show are Michelle Brasier, David Quirk, Geraldine Hickey, Luke Heggie, Ivan Aristeguieta, Nikki Britton, Reuben Kaye and Aaron Chen!
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New year, new look! We’re excited to bring this bright and bubbly colour and character to the city next year. Massive thanks to
@JudyHoracek
– our illustrator for 2019/2020. Bring on
#MICF
2019!
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And just like that, we close the curtain on the 2023 Festival.
What a joy the last 26 days have been. Thank you to all the comedians for sharing your stories. To Melbourne for coming together to share a laugh. We giggled, snorted and smiled, but now, we’ll rest 💜💜💜
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And just like that, it’s over. It’s been an incredible 26 days of laughter. Thank you to all the comedians that shared their stories, thank you to the audience who attended, and thank you Melbourne for letting us take over your city for another year. Until next year ❤️
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And just like that, we finish. This year has been our biggest yet, and it’s been an absolute blast. Over 600 shows, across 26 days, in every nook and cranny around this beautiful city. Thank you for having us Melbourne. This has been fun, we should do this again sometime.
#MICF
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We’re delighted to announce a new collaboration with members of the Melbourne comedy community – Light The Way Home – an initiative for performers in need to access Uber journeys home at night – at no cost. More info at
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We are delighted to announce the Best Newcomer for 2022 is awarded to Frankie McNair!
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The Best Newcomer award goes to Danielle Walker!
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Coming off the back of their hugely successful Netflix special,
@AuntyDonnaBoys
Zack, Mark and Broden are back to host the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow, airing tomorrow night! The boys has put this list together of their Festival faves here:
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It's with great pleasure we announce the winner of the 2023 Most Outstanding Show is
@gilliancosgriff
for ‘Actually, Good’. ❤️🙌
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Our hearts go out to the friends, family and loved ones of Eurydice Dixon. It’s shocking that a promising performer went to work and didn’t get home safely. We’re deeply saddened by this awful news and send love to all close to her.
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And we're off 🎉Over the next 26 days, laughter will be taking over Melbourne, with over 300 shows right across town - so get out and get amongst it. It's time for a laugh Melbourne, you've well and truly earned it. 🧡🧡🧡
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YES
@auntydonnaboys
! YES! 🙌
Step inside the minds of
@auntydonnaboys
. From executive producer
@edhelms
comes Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun. November 11th!
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We’re thrilled to announce that the nominees for the 2022 Best Newcomer Award are Will McKenna, Frankie McNair, Bronwyn Kuss, Steph Broadbridge, Sunanda Loves Britney and Mish Wittrup!
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Next up is The People's Choice Award! As determined by you, the ticket-buying public, this year's People's Choice Award goes to Aaron Chen for having undeniably the most popular show at the Festival this year!
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HUGE NEWS!
Thanks to the Victorian Government's Entertainment Program that launched today at 3pm, you can claim back 25% of the cost of your tickets to shows right across the Festival!
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After a less than hilarious year, we’re back! The Festival kicks off next week! So get ready Melbourne, it’s well and truly time for a laugh.
#MICF
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Thank you all so much for a wonderful Festival! Shout out to all the comedians and audiences; to all the front of house, bar, tech, box office and venue staff; to the producers, publicists, Festival staff and everyone who worked so hard to make this Festival happen. ❤️❤️❤️
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Very pleased with the announcement of Stand Up! Grants, an Andrews Labor Government initiative inspired by the talent and promise of Eurydice Dixon, supporting a new generation of strong funny women serious about comedy. Congrats to inaugural recipients
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You Barry Award nominees are Richard Gadd, Damien Power, Anne Edmonds, Tom Walker, Sammy J and Hannah Gadsby!
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James Acaster returns to Melbourne with his brand-new show ‘Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999’! The five-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee will appear at
#MICF
for a strictly limited season. Tickets on sale now!
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We're so happy to also announce the nominees for the Most Outstanding show are...
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@Talldarkfriend
-
@gilliancosgriff
-
@guywilliamsguy
- Hannah Camilleri
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@lauradaviscomic
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@leoistired
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@lizkingsman
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@josierones
-
@TomCBallard
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A massive congratulations to the 2021 Golden Gibbo award nominees, Claire Sullivan, Nat Harris & Hannah Camilleri, Woah, Alyssa!, Ben Knight and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall & Andy Matthews!
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The People’s Choice Award for most tickets sold across the 2019 Festival goes to Urzila Carlson!
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We are thrilled to announce that the 2021 Best Newcomer Award nominees are Scout Boxall, Anna Piper Scott, Charlie Zangel and Chris Ryan!
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Tomorrow would’ve been the opening night of the 2020 Melbourne Comedy Festival. To celebrate the Festival we love and that brings Melbourne so much joy we will be sharing a clip each day from Festivals gone by.
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This year’s Directors’ Choice Award goes to Bronwyn Kuss and Wil Anderson!
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And we’re off 🎉 Over the next 26 days you’ll be able to find laughs in every nook and cranny of Melbourne! With over 600 shows right across the city, it’s going to be huge, hilarious and one hell of good time!
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Congratulations to Luke McGregor and Tom Gleeson for both picking up Logie awards! Big night for red heads 👏👏👏
#Logies2019
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This year's recipient of the Director's Choice Award is Ben Russell! This award is hand-picked by the Festival Director in consultation with industry peers for a show that deserves to be celebrated 😍
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The People’s Choice Award, for most tickets sold across the 2021 Festival, goes to Daniel Sloss!
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The sales have been counted... the Vodafone Peoples' Choice Award is a tie!
@Wil_Anderson
and Judith Lucy & Denise Scott!
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Anyone else's mother still making these sort of calls?
@mariabamfoo
Our Online Program: Winter Binge is only available for one more week! Tix at:
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And that’s a wrap 👏
What a massive Festival! It’s been 26 days packed with all the laughs, giggles, snorts and everything in between. Thank you Melbourne for sharing the past month with us. For now, we’ll get some rest, but we’ll be back before you know it ❤️❤️❤️
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Ahh
@Melbourne
, you're looking fine 🧡🧡🧡
We're heading into the last weekend of the Festival. So get amongst it everyone, book those tickets, there's still time for a laugh.
#MICF
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A big announcement for your Friday! For the first time since 2011, Queen of the US alt-comedy scene and celebrated TV star Maria Bamford returns to Melbourne for five shows only! Tickets on sale now
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The winner of the 2022 Piece of Wood, comics’ choice award, is Tina Del Twist!
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The 2017 Melbourne Comedy Festival Directors' Choice Award goes to
@DemiLardner
! Well done!
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.
@joelcreasey
was a brilliant Gala host. Who's going to be watching him next Monday night from 8.30PM on Channel 10?
http://t.co/cwfs44jKWZ
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HUGE news and a MASSIVE day for Tassie!
We’re delighted to announce that
@LukeWMcGregor
is hosting The Gala, proudly supporting
@OxfamAustralia
, and
@Hannahgadsby
will host the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow!
Tune into these special events on
@ABCTV
from 29 March!
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We raise a glass tonight to all the comedians, audiences, production, venue, box office and creative teams. Our hats off to you all, thanks for an amazing Festival - let’s celebrate!
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The nominees for Best Newcomer for 2018 are Paul Williams, Stephanie Tisdell, Garry Starr, Danielle Walker, Lewis Garnham and Nadia Collins.
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It's been a while, but here he comes, trotting back across the oceans to Australia with all the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad. We are THRILLED to announce the return of David O’Doherty! Brand new show, same ol’ keyboard from 1985. On sale 11am AEDT tomorrow!
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The nominees for the Best Newcomer Award 2019 are Blake Freeman, Dan Rath, Nina Oyama and Oliver Coleman.
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We are thrilled to announce
@anneedmonds1
as the host for this year’s Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow! Just like Anne, we’re dancing for joy! The big event has sold but you can catch the full show on
@ABCTV
on 1 April.
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We are thrilled to announce the nominees for the 2022 Golden Gibbo, in memory of the late, great Lynda Gibson, are Mel & Sam, Maria Angelico, Geraldine Quinn, Ashley Apap, Aiden Willcox, Ross Purdy and Alex Hines. Stayed tuned, we have more award announcements very soon…
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Honouring Festival co-founder John Pinder, we're delighted to announce Hannah Camilleri as the recipient of the 2023 Pinder Prize. This award will also support Hannah to travel to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. 👏
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The People’s Choice Award for most tickets sold across the 2018 Festival goes to Lano & Woodley!
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We are delighted to announce the nominees for this year's Golden Gibbo award are...
-
@gilliancosgriff
- Liam Sparrow-Gange
-
@woahalyssa_
-
@andyballoch
-
@ConCoutis
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To get a Festival done in 2021 was truly a blessing, and we want to do the same next year 🧡🧡🧡
In order to do that, we need to get vaxxed.
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oooh quick micf can I plug my podcast? it’s called bigsofttitty.png and its very bad
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For the second year running,
@UrzilaCarlson
is the People's Choice Award winner! This is her third time taking home this award, as determined by the ticket buying public. 🙌
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From over 1000, down to 12 and now we have our champion! Congratulations to our RAW Comedy winner, Prue Blake (VIC)!
Huge shout outs to runner-up Patrick Golamco (NSW) and specials mentions Dhruv Iyer (WA) and Jayde O'Brien (QLD) and all our national grand finalists 🙌
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This year’s Directors’ Choice award goes to Laura Frew and Michelle Brasier in Double Denim Adventure Show!
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And it’s a YES! We are delighted to see Australia standing up for marriage equality and respect for all. Love is in the air!
#loveislove
🎉 THANK YOU 🎉
This all happened because of you.
We did this together.
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Just announced - nominees for the 2015 Golden Gibbo - Watson, Ben Russell, Laura Davis, David Quirk, Clara Cupcakes & Jon Bennett!!!
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