An amazing line up including but not limited to Ridiculusmus, Greg Fleet, Doppelgangster, Yobbo The Clown, Sofie Prints and much more. Really “much more” not just “more”. Read on…..
Two days only!
Saturday 29 November + Sunday 30 NovemberMelbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey Street East Melbourne.
On the Saturday we begin at 2pm with Sofie Prints’ show Apophenia on the strange world of meaningful coincidence
Then some preliminary remarks by legendary comic Greg Fleet on comedy and Melbourne.
Then at 3:30 the extraordinary Doppelgangster with A Sound Like Thunder. Their show goes for 82 minutes and will be an experience.
The groundbreaking and acclaimed Ridiculusmus follow at 5pm with A Tragic Blip
Ross Purdy Murders God is the next show….which kind of says it all. What else would Ross Purdy do in a Peace Church?
Then at 7pm we have In the Comedy Hot Seat presnted by Creativity’s Midwife with popular comedians Duff, Pauline Sherlock and Louis Nicoll.
Then at 8pm someone called Des Netanyahoo Tuddenham sets a whole new benchmark for sharp yet tasteful satire with Colonisation is Fucking Awesome, Cunt
Then at 9pm or thenabouts Brendan Atherton will put the mockers on Artificial Intelligence, with AI Are People Too?
At 9:30pm until close Marc Ozshka will give us Mamblings of a Rad Man. Marc describes himself as “one of one”. It mightn’t be modest but neither is it wrong. A funny and disturbing man.
And that was just the Saturday.
On Sunday at 1:15pm the musical Louis Nicoll raises the question How Many Loyalty Cards Can One Man Have and Still Consider Himself Loyal? There will be songs and pizza references, and possibly the Memento Mori.
Then at 2pm we go Down the Back of the Couch with Liz Skitsch Poetry and comedy together as they should be.
Kerry the Poet follows with a short burst of bush poetry and humour. She has seen pigs have sexual intercourse and can vividly describe it. You may never eat bacon again or you may relish it all the more, no judgment.
At 3pm we have Yobbo The Clown delving into the dark heart of clowning. His show is called Trigger Warning and that is serious, folks. He is a very funny man, though. Laugh, or else.
Shiralee Hood at 3:55 or there abouts gives us No Added Sugar. You better believe it, she is amazing and confronting and funny,
Then at around 4:30, Justin Mclean with The Big Issues. Not the magazine.
At 5pm we have A Tragic Blip reprised. Worth seeing twice.
At 6pm Tristan Haze explores the comic side of set theory with On the Functional Completeness of Certain Sets of Boolean Connectives. A whole new field of comedy opens up.
And finally Greg Fleet of famed wit and charm tells us Greg Fleet is Really Sorry This Time. Sometimes it is hard to be a comic. It will be poignant, it will be enlightening, and it will also be very funny.
We have decided to run this as a free event but encourage you to give us money. Suggested donation $70 for the weekend (higher income) or $35 (lower income) or half that for a single day. Or free.
You can turn up on the day, sure, but even better to book:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/festival-of-critical-comedy-2025-tickets-1741080862729?
