Comedy At Midsumma!
- 17 January 2025
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Midsumma starts in Melbourne this weekend, and there's no shortage of comedy across the program! Here are some of our suggestions of what to catch over the next three weeks.
If you like your comedy musical, check out Tina Del Twist's show, Tina Lets Loose.
'Tina Del Twist is Australia’s much-loved nightingale. With a comedic wit that could shred brie and a voice as smooth as honey, her talents hug all around the globe to wild acclaim and applause, garnishing her iconic. Accompanied by the musical perfume of the esteemed Cameron Thomas.'
Looking for a high-energy line-up of cracking queer comedy? Check out Queer Factor.
'This, is Queer Factor. Five of Melbourne’s sharpest queer comics come together for a jam-packed hour of stand up. Covering topics from dating and love to families, work and all the scary things in between. This line-up will get your heart racing and who knows, maybe someone will eat something gross. Strap in baby.
Featuring 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Best Newcomer nominees Maddy Weeks and Laurence Driscoll, and Melbourne comedy mainstays Maren May, Carmelo Costa and Chris Demos.'
If improv is more your style, Les Improvisé is for you.
'After a SELLOUT season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Les Improvisé is back (with their queerest cast members!) to make up a musical right before your eyes!
Will it be a nail-biting whodunnit, a wild western slapstick, a spicy romance...or maybe all 3?! Grab a date, a mate, or your mum for a perfect night of laughter and music in one of Melbourne's most iconic comedy venues!'
For comedy and burlesque all in one, grab a ticket to Lauren Bok's Boklesque.
'A hilarious burlesque variety show in which the acts and the host are all performed by one woman, the award-winning comedian and burlesque jester Lauren Bok.
Be delighted and devoured by a stunning array of the finest vaudeville acts from all around Lauren Bok's brain! It's Dita Von Teese meets The Muppets in this ridiculous, raunchy, rollercoaster of a show!'
For a stellar line-up of Festival faves, Golden Gate-time with Luka Muller is not to be missed.
'Join triple j breakfast host and asexual icon Luka Muller as he takes the hosting reins with Alex Ward, Kirsty Webeck, Nick White, Aurelia St Clair and Tom Ballard. Expect big laughs, some razzle dazzle and a Golden Gate-time.'
Why not catch an encore of the 2024 Golden Gibbo nominated Dead To Me: A Comedy Ghost Tour?
'Join comedian and confirmed bachelor Matt Bell for a walking ghost tour through Melbourne’s storied streets and fabled haunts where you will encounter terrifying tales inspired by single life.
Get the gory details about the horrors of running into exes in the street, being literally ghosted, and having dates miraculously return from the dead. Hunt down old flames, visit historic sites of abandoned romances and bask in the conspiratorial glow of a love life in jeopardy.'
For the theatre lovers, you've gotta see Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen.
'A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up finally meets his Mr Right and then does everything wrong. But is Mr Right quite what he seems? And how far will the comedian go to get a laugh?
A dark new comedy about vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth from the Olivier Award-winning Producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer. Starring Tony and Olivier-nominated actor Samuel Barnett.'