Plymouth restaurants, bars and pubs reopening inside from May 17 - latest updates
No more wrapping yourself in a thick blanket - Plymothians will finally be able to have a bite to eat and a drink (or two) inside a restaurant or bar from next week
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Restaurants and bars across England will be permitted to reopen their indoor areas from Monday - and we can t wait to get back inside at some of our favourite boozers in the city.
While dozens of restaurants, bar and pubs opened their beer gardens and outdoor patios as soon as restrictions allowed on Monday, April 12, businesses without outdoor areas were unable to open - while some business owners decided to hold-off reopening until they could welcome people indoors.
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.
Winners are grinners: we review the Comedy Festivalâs shortlisted shows
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April 13, 2021 â 5.00am
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The nominations are in for most outstanding show at the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Hereâs what our reviewers thought of the acts.
Nominees for most outstanding show
Luke Heggie,
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Is there an award for Most Improved Player? Last time I saw Heggie he was solid, now heâs utterly extraordinary.
The deadpan Sydney stand-up gets straight into it and delivers as many jokes per minute as fellow blue chip performer Rhys Nicholson, targeting police, vegan-haters and unisex toilets: âThis is the future weâve all fought for.â
âDisillusioned feministâ wins next-gen comedy crown
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Melbourne Town Hall, April 11
After 64 heats and finals and a record 1183 entrants, Australiaâs largest open mic competition had finally whittled down the shortlist to 12 aspiring comedians to see who would join the RAW Comedy alumni such as Hannah Gadsby, Ronny Chieng and Celia Pacquola.
Prue Blake, winner of RAW Comedy.
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Hosted by the jovial Dane Simpson, Mathew Hespe kicked things off and set the bar with material on a reciprocal problem-sharing psychologist and Tiger Woodsâ infidelity; Kelly Gulliver followed with more commonplace stories of the problems of being of a single mother; and Jayde OâBrien (one of two acts to receive a special mention from the judges) floored the room with a blistering set of growing up ignorant of her familyâs poverty, li
Shafar gives 110 per cent, while Ballard roasts the Liberals
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Michael Shafar.
You think that your 2020 was rough? Try going through a global pandemic coupled with four months of chemotherapy for testicular cancer. For the second time.
That said, due to all of his shows getting cancelled, Michael Shafar was eligible for JobKeeper and finally made some money from comedy. So, you know, swings and roundabouts.
It may only be his fourth MICF show since leaving his career in law, but Shafarâs effortless stage presence and radiant command over his audience rings reminiscent of a 10-year veteran.