Alex Keen and Tess Birch Words By Kyra Gillespie Tess Birch and Alex Keen’s show, Smart Casual, was proof there are plenty of diamonds in the rough when Melbourne International Comedy Festival rolls around every year. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, some may argue, is defined not by the big headliners, but the up-and-coming acts that take you pleasantly by surprise. One such act was Smart Casual by Tess Birch and Alex Keen. Upstairs at Melbourne’s Campari House, Birch talked about how in school, her mum would always lecture her about her social media intake, yet now it’s her mum who spends hours on Facebook, sending her videos of unlikely animal friendships, captured by the endless social worm-hole.