Comedy
![Josh Thomas. Let's Tidy Up. Image is a young man on stage in a blue shirt and black pants, surrounded by bits of furniture and objects and with confetti falling from the ceiling all around him.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Josh-Thomas-Lets-Tidy-Up_credit_Daniel-Boud_040-e1712901323566.jpg?w=310)
Comedy review: Josh Thomas, Let's Tidy Up, Arts Centre Melbourne, MICF 2024
A comedy of distraction and divergence that delivers.
![Image is a man with a closed mouth smile/grimace at the camera and a slight upturn of the head. He is wearing a black jumper and has a grey mottled backdrop.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/MICF-2024-Tom-Ballard.png?w=310)
Comedy review: Tom Ballard: Good Point Well Made, Rydges One, MICF 2024
Fierce and funny, Ballard delivers a rock solid hour that even babies seem to love...
![Julia Masli. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Image is a woman dressed in traditional white clown costume with a conical hat. She is standing between two pillars. On her white suit is written the word 'ha' several times.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/MICF-2024-Julia-Masli-e1712886946639.jpg?w=310)
Comedy review: Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Chinese Museum, MICF 2024
So clever and so different – Julia’s performance in ha ha ha ha ha ha ha is a must see…
![Image is a pink/red background with a tonne weight on it, bearing the inscription Funny Tonne](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/funny-tonne-2021.png?w=310)
Funny Tonne – part two, MICF 2024
The second batch of top reviews from the Funny Tonne, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's fledgling reviewers for 2024.
![Jessi Ryan: Functional Bottom. Image is a topless young performer in fishnet stockings sitting on their haunches with a fur coat draped across their knee. They have heavy make-up and chest and arm tattoos.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/JS-e1712808650291.jpg?w=310)
Comedy review: Jessi Ryan: Functional Bottom, Club Voltaire, MICF 2024
An entertaining and shocking debut that takes you through a year in the life of medical drama, sex and relationships.Â
![Alex Hines. Putting on a Show. Image is a woman with long dark hair dressed in a long white dress on an old fashioned phone under an ornate arch. There are two smaller versions of the same woman, albeit with a blue bodice to the dress, one on each side of her.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/al.jpg?w=310)
Comedy review: Alex Hines: Putting on a Show, Malthouse Theatre, MICF 2024Â
Stand-up, sketch and musical comedy, this production has it all.
![Headshot of a middle aged smiling woman with head tilted to the left. She has short sticking up grey hair and is wearing a dark blue collar shirt. Geraldine Hickey.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Geraldine-Hickey.png?w=310)
Comedy review: Geraldine Hickey, Don't Tease Me About My Gloves, Arts Centre Melbourne, MICF 2024
Don't tease her and don't say 'oh yeah' when Hickey tells you why she's wearing gloves...
![Shakespeare Ghostbusters. Image is a group of people surrounded by swirling mist pointing weapons and looking out for ghosts.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ghost-e1712722405775.jpg?w=310)
Comedy review: The Ghostlight League - Shakespeare Ghostbusters, St Martin's Theatre, MICF 2024
If you liketh the bard and the busters of ghosts this is the comedy for you.Â
![Image is a wall with a neon sign saying HEADLINERS above a picture of an Asian man and a smiling Black woman looking up.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ze.jpg?w=310)
Comedy review: Headliners with Joel Kim Booster and Zainab Johnson, Melbourne Town Hall, MICF 2024
This unlikely pair of Americans dazzled at this year's MICF.
![A group of female comedians of Asian appearance photoshopped together.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/brown.png?w=310)
Comedy review: Brown Women Comedy, Trades Hall, MICF 2024
A different line-up of six South Asian comedians take to the stage each night.