8 of the best shows at MICF without stepping foot out of your favourite uni pub

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MICF 2024 @ The Oxford Scholar

  • All Aces Comedy Showcase

    After a stunning Festival debut in 2023, the hottest new brand in Australian stand-up returns to Melbourne International Comedy Festival. With a mission to Make Australia Funny Again, All Aces Comedy presents some of the hottest comedians from Australia and the UK. By comedians, for audiences, free of diversity quotas, industry politics and woke censorship, we bring pure unadulterated top shelf stand-up, not suited for Karens or Darrens. A perfect show to catch after work with colleagues to have a drink and share in the laughter from jokes that will definitely get you in trouble with HR.

    "Best value entertainment since Alan Joyce's time at QANTAS." ★★★★★ Richard Goyder AO

  • The Comedy Crawl

    Five comedians. Four bars. One hilarious night. Sure fire sell out! The most hilarious pub crawl in town... laugh and drink your way around town with some of the best comedians the Festival has popping up at each venue! Drink and prize giveaways a plenty!

  • Corey White - Charmed & Dangerous

    From criminal lawyer to Australia's most controversial comedian, Corey White is the bad boy with a kind heart. Exiled from the Left for daring to criticise sacred cows, he refuses to camel toe the party line of a cultural elite who are neither cultured nor elite. An hour of swashbuckling satire completely unsafe for Karens and Darrens.

    'Corey White’s risque jokes and witty remarks poke fun at Australian culture and characters. White is a sharp comic with quick fire timing - hecklers beware! Corey has a natural presence on stage and his incisive social commentary will make you burst out laughing! Keep an eye on Corey in the comedy scene! ★★★★★ Fringefeed

  • Ğeorge Zacharopoulos Greek Comedian of the Year 2024 - Ğreek In The Sheets (GRE)

    Brand-new show!

    From the 2023 International Comedian of the Year comes a brand-new show about love, sex and his fear of death.

    Jim Jefferies tour support.

    'A masterclass in comedic storytelling.' ★★★★★ The Quintessential Review

    'Wicked sense of humour.' ★★★★★ Reviews Hub

    'This is accomplished stand up at quite a frenetic pace.' ★★★★★ One4Review

  • Jojo Sutherland - I Wish You Were My Mum! (Careful What You Wish For) (SCO,UK)

    Winner Best Solo Show 2022 Scottish Comedy Awards

    Last year Jojo Sutherland was Growing Old Disgracefully and now she’s back

    with a new show that is ridiculing and revelling in the role of motherhood

    'Jojo is bloody bloody brilliant.' The Scotsman

    'Effortlessly funny.' Entertainment Focus

    'Will unnerve and mesmerise in equal measures.' Broadway Baby (UK)

    'This Grande Dame of Scottish comedy will be entertaining packed out audiences for a long time to come.' One4review

    'A Scottish comedy legend. I could watch Jojo for hours, funny, cutting, honest, sarcastic, rude and very Scottish. She is a treat.' Pick of the Fringe Reviews

    'Like watching a maestro conduct an orchestra.' On The Mic

  • Nadine Sparks - Teacher, Queen of The Yard

    Nadine Sparks spent a staggering 20 years working in education and she's saved the very best bits for you. Her charming, honest, and energetic nature transforms chalkboard confessions and yard duty anecdotes into an hour of hilarity. A show for anybody who went to school and especially those who've worked in them!

    Nine shows only of this hilarious holiday treat for you and your best teacher mates!

    Nadine has been a stronghold in the Melbourne comedy scene for over a decade and has performed to sold-out audiences in major festivals and comedy clubs in Australia and overseas.

    ‘Hilarious.’ What's My Scene

    'Sparks huge stage presence helps her launch into some physical comedy with belly-laugh-inducing gusto.' Rip it Up

    'Absurdly funny'. The Music

  • Nicky Barry - Proclivity

    The road to ruin is paved with the bodies of those who couldn't last the distance. Comedy powerhouse Nicky Barry presents a rollicking comedic tribute to the grandest mistakes she keeps making over and over again on her journey to oblivion.

    Lauded by audiences and comics alike, Nicky was most recently nominated for Best Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe 2023. Described as:” frighteningly funny” in her first review, she is one of those acts that many comics are reluctant to follow. Her razor- sharp wit and brazen delivery are always a hit.

    “She’s warm, funny, unpretentious and relatable” – Arts Hub

    “The joke of the night belonged to Barry” – Australian Stage

    “Quality filthy stand-up with heart” – Lily Fish

  • Comedians of Europe

    Comedians of Europe is a collaboration across some of the best European comedians who perform in English. We have been on Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC, Hulu, as well as sold out shows across the world.

    Now we are in Australia to give you our jokes... and take your jobs!