The Warehouse Comedy Festival Season 1
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The Warehouse Comedy Festival
2011
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Sam Simmons, one of the world's most original and daring comics features his show Fail, at the warehouse showcase of Melbourne Comedy festival's brightest and funniest.
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Dave Thornton has been described as one of the hottest rising stars of Australian comedy, hence his inclusion in the Warehouse series, showcasing the best and brightest of the Melbourne International Comedy event. His engaging set, A Different Type of Normal is full of hilarious anecdotes of family life, mostly his own. He thought his family was normal, he says, until he turned 19. A hit at the world's biggest comedy festivals, including Edinburgh, Melbourne and the invitation-only Montreal Just for Laughs festival, Dave has also been on Talkin 'bout Your Generation, Rove and The 7pm Project. He recently played a straight acting role in ABC's Bed of Roses.
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Taken from comic legend Denise Scott's highly-acclaimed memoir, Number 26, this is the stage version of her hilarious tales of moving into her first house with her husband, John, his circus equipment, a king-sized futon sans base, a ventolin inhaler, no savings and a new baby. After two years' hard slog writing, Denise says she was buggered if all she ended up with was a book. So the stories move to a live venue where she tells them as part of the warehouse of brilliant comedy, coming from the cream of the stand-ups at last year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She opens her skit saying the first time she and John saw Number 26, she just knew it was going to be theirs. It was so awful and ugly and repulsive in every way, she knew they had a great chance of getting it at auction.
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Sammy J's earned his gig among the cream of Australian stand-ups winning the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Best Newcomer award. His '58kg of pure entertainment' set in the Warehouse Comedy format is a piano-based mix of popular songs and some new surprises, a testimony to his reputation for being one of the most exciting and inventive comedians on the circuit. He has gathered an army of fans from appearances on Spicks and Specks and Good News Week and also become somewhat of a fringe legend. Whip-thin, he's fast, furious and very funny.
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Hilarious personal storytelling from comedian Tom Ballard at the Melbourne sawtooth warehouse venue that housed the Warehouse Comedy Festival. Ballard is one of the festival's brightest acts. He is gay, from Warrnambool and his gig is a candid account of coming to terms with his private bits. Titled 'Is What He Is', Ballard's act will make you laugh, think - and squirm. Winner of the Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival last year, Tom is one half of the triple j Breakfast show, Tom and Alex. He has made jokes at the Prime Minister's face on Good News Week and is also seen regularly on The 7pm Project.
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Award-winning stand-up comedian Felicity Ward shines a floodlight on the thoughts that should have stayed in her diary in this third episode of the smartest and brightest of the Melbourne comedy series, filmed at a pop-up venue in an old Collingwood sawtooth warehouse. Introduced by Adam Hills as someone who kept him in stitches for hours at their first meeting, Ward waxes about growing up in a small coastal town, a mother named Trevalyn and a pan toilet until she was 11, BETA videos, cat hatred, sweat moustaches and essentially about discovering she is a textbook idiot. Ward will be familiar from appearances on Good News Week, Spicks and Specks, Thank God You're Here and The Ronnie Johns Half Hour.
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Tom Gleeson features in the second part of the best and brightest of the comedy festival stand-ups on the circuit, filmed at the Warehouse Festival's sawtooth warehouse venue. Aptly named, the festival is an attempt to store the laughs and brilliance of the performers from the festival circuit, normally lost forever once the gigs are over. Gleeson has performed at all three major comedy festivals in Melbourne, Edinburgh and Montreal and the 'invite-only' Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland. He has performed at every capital city in Australia, in London, Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Jakarta and also in Iraq and Afghanistan. He seems to be everywhere on television, from Good News Week, to The 7pm Project and Thank God You're Here and is the cool, calm funny man behind the desk on many a panel show doing the rounds. But it is performing on stage where he really shines.
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Hannah Gadsby features in the first of the best and brightest of the comedy festival stand-ups on the circuit. She is one of the sharpest and funniest of Australian comedians who pour blood, sweat and tears into the circuit every year, then have their shows disappear at the end of the season. This series, introduced by Adam Hills, was filmed in an old sawtooth warehouse in Melbourne, and captures their brilliance, and laughs, before they are lost forever. Gadsby, whose set is called Kiss me Quick I'm Full of Jubes, has her trademark droll, deadpan, self-deprecating observations about herself and her family that has delighted audiences everywhere. A former winner of the Raw Comedy event, she is now also a regular on Adam Hills Live in Gordon Street Tonight on ABC1.
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