Melbourne Comedy Show to hit Pilbeam Theatre Kirsty Weback, Dane Simpson, Matt Ford, Mel Buttle and Carl Donnell are in the line up for the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow at the Pilbeam Theatre later this month.
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The Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow is about to hit the road and Rockhampton is on the schedule, pinned for April.
The stellar lineup features Australian and international acts.
More than any year before, the comedians are champing at the bit to break out from the barriers, shake off the seclusion and roll out the laughs.
With an all killer, no filler line-up of Australian stars and talented newcomers, buckle in for a night of stand-up, sketch, satire, silliness and song to satisfy all your comedy cravings.
Meet Melbourne’s rising stars set to battle it out at the RAW Comedy National Grand Final Prue Blake
Like superheroes, stand up comics have their own unique origin stories.
For Prue Blake, it was two years ago when she was in a pizza cafe in Copenhagen, by chance listening to a Danish cover of Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’, when a text came through. It was her ex-boyfriend, after they broke up only a few days earlier.
“Something about that just clicked something in me,” she recalls.
“We broke up on a Friday. I booked flights that day, left on the Sunday, went to Copenhagen for a week and then came back committed to stand up comedy,” she says.
After being cancelled in 2020, the RAW Comedy National Grand Final is finally here
Words by Arielle Richards
Australia’s biggest open mic competition will finally get its winner.
Every year, Australia’s finest comedy talent battle it out over five minutes of stand-up for RAW Comedy, Australia’s largest, and most prestigious, comedy competition. But after COVID-19 upended the 2020 Grand Final, last year’s contestants are yet to finish what they started.
Now that the contestants have hashed it out in heats and State Finals across the country earlier this year, the RAW Comedy National Grand Final has arrived, and only one can win.
On the new ABC-funded mini-series, Gourmet Lazy, culturally-diverse Australian performers and their mums take the audience through a family staple that their parents cooked for them as a child.
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THUNDER BAY – Looking to boost recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and spur improvements in its core business districts, the City of Thunder Bay has made it easier to access municipal grants for commercial property improvements.
Changes to the city’s Community Improvement Plan (CIP) approved unanimously by city council Monday will lower requirements such as the minimum amount that must be spent by the business in order to qualify for grants of up to $25,000.
CIP grants are meant to incentivize improvements such as renovations, façade improvements, and the installation of second-storey residential units.
Businesses in the north and south downtown cores, as well as commercial areas along Simpson and Frederica streets, are eligible for the grants.