After a huge month packed with shows, our team of reviewers has come together to pick out the best (and strangest) moments from this year’s comedy festival.
For the past month our team of reviewers have immersed themselves in everything the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has to offer – from odes to sad earthworms to the aggressive pulverisation of fruit. Here are some of the moments and jokes that stood out the most.
When He Huang classifies backpacking as a “white person thing to do”, retorting that Asian and Chinese people prefer to “travel with suitcases and dignity”.There’s a moment in Tom Walker’s show when you wonder if his entire hour is going to concentrate on strange men who are obsessed with auto-fellatio.
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