Melbourne Comedy Festival 2010
Melbourne is a city of many things. Coffee. Excellent Food. Prized Grafitti. Sport (yawn). Trams. The ‘Yellow Peril’ (don’t ask, it’s a long story). Shopping. Daggy cruises down the Yarra. Arty precincts. Laneways. And Laughs.
Well at least in April. For almost the whole month, very funny people from far and wide (and some from just up the street) have a crack at making Melbournians (and our guests) laugh. And the people they love it. Last year attendance almost hit 500,000, and with the continued gloominess precipitating a need to be amused, there are predictions that this year’s comedy crowd will be mammoth. Just for the record, according to ‘look forward’, Melbourne’s Comedy Festival now officially outranks The Grand Prix and The Melbourne Cup as one of the biggest events of the calendar.
So, where to go and what to do, to score yourself one of those laughs. Ot at least a little snigger/giggle/shoulder shake. First stop should be the Comedy Festival Website. But if you’ve feeling spontaneous and want to court serendipity, you can just rock up to the Melbourne Town Hall (corner of Collins and Swanston) or the Halftix booth slightly to the north of the fancy Town Hall building, and see who’s on. Melbourne’s daily paper “The Age” is worth checking out too – as a major sponsor, it gives the festival a good guernsey. Off you go. Giggle your way to a new tomorrow.
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