Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
Michelle Brasier doesn’t mean to be rude, she’s sure that all of our funerals will be a hoot – but her dad’s was the funniest.
Brasier – previously best known as half of the award-winning cyclone of whip-smart sketch that is Double Denim – has returned to the solo arena with a deeply personal song-fuelled show that involves the deaths of two immediate family members and her own experience of a gruesome accident and grim health prognosis.
It’s a lot to put on a room of strangers, but far from leading a grim march Brasier takes her audience by the hand and steps us through a consistently hilarious journey from a safe and unremarkable youth – when an unrequited crush on a fictional character was as tough as things got – to an adulthood with more than its fair share of the ‘life experience’ she had yearned for.