In Joke

In Joke called up Alex Ward to talk about her debut MICF show 'QUIET'. Sharing an origin from Brisbane with Merryn, another weird coincidence during an interview has yet again happened to Merryn. Gill and Merryn also discussed first stand up gigs with Alex and the best techniques to get started in stand-up

Phoebe and Steen Raskopoulos discuss Steen's 2017 festival show 'The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess'. Talking about his fear of chess fans being confused by his show's title, and his improv past, Phoebe and Steen get into comedy's nitty gritty.

Performing two entire shows in this year's comedy festival, 'Bee Boo' and 'MotherFather', Tom Walker's feeling, supposedly 4/10 levels of tired. Tom discusses his MICF 2016 achievements and learning from past experiences with Phoebe! 

Presenting two full shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this year, Merryn, Immie and Em chatted to ex-Get Cereal presenter, Marcus Ryan! Performing one charity show every Monday 'Lights Out Laughs' and another show '¿Hablas Inglés?', Marcus discussed how different each show is and what it's like doing two shows at once. 

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The amazing and hilarious Alice Frasre dropped into the SYN studios to discuss her MICF show 'Empire'! Talking about her Buddhist upbringing and how to deal with bum audiences, Merryn, Immie and Em also grilled Alice on her show's brilliant costume, which must be seen to be believed...

While Marcus was in the studio, he also just easily whipped out a Banjo Paterson poem to read for us. Read in a funny voice, the Paterson classic has been transformed into a Stephen Fry-level of audiobook. 

Ex-triple J Breakfast presenter, comedian, writer, food officianado, rapper and general raconteur, Matt Okine dropped into the SYN studios to chat with Paul and Ez. Matt talked about his rap project, The Boilermakers becoming less of a hobby and more of a full-time pursuit. He also revealed some behind the scenes secrets about his new Stan show 'The Other Guy' and reflected on his different MICF show 'We Made You'. 

Also during our coverage of the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Opening, Andrew spoke to another member of the fantastic-five that is Comedy Zone Asia, Neeti Palta. 

Comedy Zone Asia is running at the Town Hall every night except Mondays from the 30th of March to the 23rd of April.

As part of our excluisve coverage of the Melvourne International Comedy Festival 2017 Opening at the Forum Theatre, our man on the ground Andrew spoke to two stars from the variety show, Comedy Zone Asia: Rizal van Geyzel and Sumit Anand. Have a listen here. 

Comedy Zone Asia is running at the Town Hall every night except Mondays from the 30th of March to the 23rd of April.

This absolutely devine rendition of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' will excite all people alike. Apparently inspired by Antonio Banderas, this reading of the iconic children's book is sure to make any commute a scintillating one.