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The Melbourne International Comedy Festival wants to know -
Can they crack The Funny Tonne?
It's the Amazing Race of comedy, the world's premier competitive audience challenge, it's a race to see 100 shows in the 2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival.
In early February, we put the call out for anyone who reckoned they had the cojones to sit through an average four shows a night, every night, for four weeks. After sifting through literally some applications, we've selected these three hard-core laughers to take on the challenge:
The Final Official Tally was this:
Here's what they thought of what they saw – it's three different snapshots of almost the whole Festival. Many shows have been reviewed by more than one team and what one of them loved, the others hated! Happy blogging and may the best team win!
Lyn is a committed comedy fan who saw Jason Byrne 4 times last year, Wil Anderson twice, Danny Bhoy twice and has already bought for this year's Spamalot, Ross Noble, Jason and Rove. Brian is 19 years old. He is a comedy tragic, with a warped sense of humour!!
162 reviews . read
Barb and Fran also work together in an "intercultural communication and training company" they own. They have just finished writing a 620,000 word encyclopaedia of Asian sociology, and are massively getting into Melbourne's cultural life after living in the US for nearly ten years.
162 reviews . read
21 and 23 years old respectively, they have already scheduled their first week just for fun, as a fantasy exercise. The say, "we're way too unfit to participate in a real Amazing Race".
64 reviews . read
