I'm Not Joking

Wil Anderson is a comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster. Mostly, he is a comedian–one of those comedians who loves watching comedy.

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Laura Davis is a stand-up and comedy writer. She has won Comedy Channel Moosehead Award, Melbourne International Comedy Festival Golden Gibbo Winner, and Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy. Davis has appeared on SBS’s Stand Up shows and ABC TV. She is a writer for Sean Micallfes’s show Mad as Hell.

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Darwyn Metzger is the former star of America Now and an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, who began his career by asking MTV comedian Tom Green for a job live on the air of his talk show. Darwyn went on to become the founder and CEO of Phantom, a digital marketing and social media strategy firm that works with Brands, Political campaigns, TV shows, Films & Celebrities including Nike, Trident, DirecTV, AT&T, Fox, BBC America and primetime TV shows on virtually every major network in America.

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The secret to success that everybody knows but can’t do: Finding the part of you that wants to be a success and nurturing it.

Anthony Noack says it can be a hard thing to take yourself back to motivation, you just have to force yourself to do something. Playwrite, producer and filmmaker Anthony Noack works for Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He is an assistant producer at RAW Comedy and Festival Club. As a playwright and producer, his plays Brighter Whiter and The Gift premiered at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and Banana Republic made its premier at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. His novella, Eaglemont, was published through Ginninderra Press and his award-winning short film, Twenty Five Cents, premiered at the St Kilda Film Festival in 2007. Anthony says you just have to do small little things to start to create that movement, and then all of a sudden you find yourself working.

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Every job is problem solving. We solve problems, we design things, and everyone designs in their own way. Experience designer and writer Josh Kinal says design is in the intention from the start. If you’re not building something with intention, you are not designing. User experience design, in a nutshell, is creating products with a focus on providing quality and meaningful experiences to users and culturally relevant solutions. Despite his degree in Immunology and Reproductive Endocrinology, Josh headed into the world of entertainment journalism, broadcasting and screenwriting. He created the Boxcutters podcast, the first Australian podcast to be invited to perform live at SXSW. Nowadays, he designs experiences for people using technology. He is a Lead Experience Designer at ThoughtWorks in Melbourne and speaks eight languages well enough to order sandwiches in at least four continents.

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Zoo Worker. Comedian. Writer. Goblin. These are just a few of apt descriptions that barely capture Brianna Williams’ comedic brilliance – on and off the stage. Popularly known as one of the hosts for Channel Ten’s The Bachelor Unpacked, Brianna is also dedicated to her incredible profession as a zoo worker. Hailing from Perth, she left her full-time high school teaching role to come to a town filled with lattes and lemurs. She can be seen regularly as part of The Big Hoo-Haa! on Friday nights at the Butterfly Club; has performed as part of Melbourne Fringe, Perth Fringe World and the Melbourne Comedy Festival; and is now passionate in her mission of telling people in bars not to use straws. Brianna explores the hidden depths behind comedy and its important role in society, now more than ever.

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For Jami Gong, the greatest job in the world is making people laugh. Jami is dubbed as The Funniest Man in Hong Kong and is the founder and producer of TakeOut Comedy, the first full-time comedy club in Asia. His first dab at stand-up comedy was a comic competition in Syracuse University during his sophomore year in 1989. He fell in love with standup comedy watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Jami says fate or destiny helped him become who he is today, but watching The Tonight Show helped him realize the power of laughter. Celebrating the comedy club’s eleventh anniversary, Jami takes us through the origin story and shares his secret to crowd work.

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Jimmy Carr has too many credits to name. He is a stand-up comedian. His most recent special, Funny Business, can be seen on Netflix. He is a well-known host, perhaps best known for The UK show The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Pete met Jimmy when Jimmy was the presenter on a BBC special on the Science of Laughter. Jimmy’s book, Only Joking: What’s So Funny About Making People Laugh, was the first and most helpful one Pete read when he started studying humor. Jimmy joins Pete in Melbourne prior to Jimmy’s show The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits World Tour. Jimmy shares that being able to write jokes isn’t the skill, being able to laugh at jokes is the skill. He says laughter is the interesting part, not the material, because it defines humanity.

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For nearly twenty years, Ben McKenzie has done a little of everything: sketch, improv, standup, musicals, storytelling, theater, lectures, podcasts, and even late night museum tours. Ben marries comedy and science, such as his time travel comedy audio show, Night Terrace. He’s also designed and hosted dozens of live games, such as Small Time Criminals and city-wide romp Where in Melbourne is Carmen (or Diego)? He hosts the Terry Pratchett book club podcast Pratchat. Ben says that as much as he wants a performance he’s writing to be perfect by revising it over and over, it never gets to be perfect because nothing ever is, but that doesn’t matter because once it’s done and it’s out, that’s it. Ben shares about what he enjoys doing, what it means to be in the game design and comedy industry, and the value of collaboration because one-person show is not ever really a one-person show in theater.

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Lisa-Skye is Melbourne’s sparkle puppy muppet dominatrix comedian. Her uniquely positive and inclusive humor and her glitter-bomb high-energy delivery have made her a favorite on the International arts festival circuit. She is not for the close-minded…

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