The set-up has begun at Byron Bay Surf Life Saving Club for the town’s three-day Comedy Festival.
Audiences will be treated to some of the nation’s best performers including Glenn Robbins, Fiona O’Loughlin and Jean Kittson.
“Most of the 20 artists that are coming basically didn’t work last year so that’s something that gives us great pride,” Festival Director, Mel Coppin, said.
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The Byron Bay Comedy Festival has announced its 2021 program, with a long list of comedy stars coming to the area next month.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki proves he’s more than just an incredibly knowledgeable source on all things he’s also a comedy scientist.
After presenting at schools during the day, Dr Karl will open the festival with a blistering brain-boggling set. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki brings his comedy side to Byron Bay.
Comedy superstars Glen Robbins and Dave O’Neil have developed one of those off stage comedy friendships that comes to life on the stage.
Happily, if not surprisingly, she nails it, starring as the frequently brusque Helen Tudor-Fisk. A lawyer whoâs relocated to Melbourne following a marriage break-up â her husband left her for an older woman â she fibs her way into a job with an unprepossessing firm of suburban solicitors.
Gruber & Gruber specialises in probate and will cases. Sexy, no? No. This is not a show that has any interest in the potentially glamorous side of the law: no headline-grabbing criminal cases or courtroom grand-standing here.
And, in keeping with the milieu, its quietly grumpy protagonist mostly gets around in shapeless dust-brown pantsuits and clumpy shoes. She canât do small talk, is uncomfortable about hugging and dislikes the word âmoistâ.
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Kitty Flanagan owes it all to the ‘Whip-Around.’
Being invited to summarise Sydney events in a weekly segment on
The Project reignited her popularity in Australia and led to new work opportunities.
“
The Project put me on the map,” she tells
TV Tonight. “I left Australia for 8 years because I wanted to be a stand-up. So I had to go to the UK just because there were more gigs, because I needed to work every night to get good.
“I’d done
Full Frontal but no-one really knew me from that. When I came back
The Project gave me a TV profile. Suddenly it meant I could go on tour and do an hour show. You can’t tour without that kind of recognisability, I don’t think. It’s very rare.”