The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, or Oxfam Gala, is a comedy show run annually as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Billed as Australian comedy's 'night of nights', it is held one week before the festival opens, and acts as a fundraiser for the charity Oxfam Australia. [1]
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Host: Shane Bourne
Host: Gerry Connolly and Ernie Dingo
Host: Wendy Harmer
Host: Andrew Denton featuring Magda Szubanski
Host: Julia Morris featuring Bruno Lucia
Host: Judith Lucy and Shane Bourne
Host: Paul McDermott
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Host: Rove McManus
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Host: Lano & Woodley
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Host: Jimeoin
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Host: Wil Anderson
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Host: Dave Hughes
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Host: Magda Szubanski
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Host: Dave Hughes
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Host: Adam Hills
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Host: Peter Helliar
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Host: Paul McDermott
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Host: Shaun Micallef
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Host: Kitty Flanagan
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Host: Josh Thomas
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Host: Dave Hughes
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Host: Eddie Perfect
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Host: Joel Creasey
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Host: Celia Pacquola
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Host: Wil Anderson
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Host: Matt Okine
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Host: Tom Gleeson
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William James Anderson is an Australian comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) is the largest stand-alone comedy festival and the second-largest international comedy festival in the world. Established in 1987, it takes place annually in Melbourne over four weeks, typically starting in March and running through to April. The Melbourne Town Hall has served as the festival hub, but performances are held in many venues throughout the city.
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Under Melbourne Tonight was a weekly live variety hour television program produced by RMITV that broadcast on C31 Melbourne. Reaching a weekly viewership of 55,000 people each week, the show was reviewed in The Age's Green Guide by Jim Schembri on 22 December 1994 as "Sometimes funnier than Letterman". Under Melbourne Tonight was hosted by Stephen Hall and Vin "Rastas" Hedger and featured regular segments with 3RRR's Tony Biggs, Merrick and Rosso's Merrick Watts and Tim Ross, Corinne Grant, Peter Helliar and many more. The show included segments ranging from live music, stand-up comedy, movie reviews, music reviews, video game reviews, sports, news, current affairs, science and sketches. In 1998 the show was rebooted as Under Melbourne Tonight Presents...... What's Goin' On There? and Whose Shout at the Stumpy Arms in 1999.
Behave Yourself! is an Australian comedy game show which premiered on 4 July 2017 on the Seven Network. The series was produced by Eureka Productions and hosted by Darren McMullen. It featured comedians and celebrities competing to guess human responses and behaviour, based on experiments of behavioural expert and author Dan Ariely.
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