Warehouse Comedy Festival

WARNING: This show does not contain, nor promote, the practice of hasty lip contact for sugary reward. It does contain the trademark droll, heart-breakingly funny, self-deprecating observations about Hannah Gadsby and her family that have delighted audiences all over the world. Tasmania's favourite daughter first wowed the mainland by winning the national final of Raw Comedy. She went on to be runner up at Edinburgh's So You Think You're Funny, nominated for Best comedy Performer at the 2010 Helpmann Awards, and winner of the Directors' Choice Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

You've seen him on Good News Week, The 7pm Project and Thank God You're Here. But then again you've also seen him on The Spearman Experiment and 20 to 1. So you win some, you lose some. Now the panel-ho is getting up from behind the desk and doing it live in Get It into Ya! So if you think he lights up the box, you’re going to love him live. On video.

text•book noun. A book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject. id•i•ot noun (informal). A stupid person. Archaic MEDICINE a mentally handicapped person. This is Felicity Ward. Award winning stand up comedian and 1992 Walk-A-Thon Participant, Felicity Ward, shines a floodlight on the thoughts that should have stayed in her diary; about growing up in a small coastal town, having a Mother named Trevalyn and a pan toilet until she was 11; about BETA Videos, cat hatred, sweat moustaches and peri-peri chilli charts… but mostly, it’s a show about Felicity discovering she’s the last person to realise she’s a Textbook Idiot. (As seen on The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Thank God You're Here, Good News Week and Spicks and Specks.)

Tom is a gay. He is from Warrnambool. He is a comedian. In Is What He Is, Tom Ballard gives a candid account of coming to terms with his private bits in the 21st century. Tom's debut solo show is a hilarious hour of personal storytelling that will make you laugh, think, squirm and come to love your fellow human. But not in a gay way. Winner of Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Tom is one half of the triple j breakfast show Tom and Alex, has made jokes at the Prime Minister's face on Good News Week and is seen regularly on The 7PM Project. On the other hand, he also has quite bad eczema.

Sammy J's earned his gig among the cream of Australian stand-ups winning the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Best Newcomer award. His '58kg of pure entertainment' set in the Warehouse Comedy format is a piano-based mix of popular songs and some new surprises, a testimony to his reputation for being one of the most exciting and inventive comedians on the circuit. He has gathered an army of fans from appearances on Spicks and Specks and Good News Week and also become somewhat of a fringe legend. Whip-thin, he's fast, furious and very funny.

"I’ll never forget the first time John and I saw number twenty-six. We just knew it was going to be ours. It was so awful and ugly and repulsive in every way, we knew we had a great chance of getting it at auction." So begins Denise Scott's highly-acclaimed memoir. In the process of writing it, Denise spent two torturous years reflecting on her life and she’ll be buggered if all she ends up with is a book. So here, at last, is the sold-out stage version of Number 26, captured live. Eczema! Poverty! Affairs! Alzheimer’s! It’s a show that promises something for everyone. Denise Scott is a comedy legend, a key player in landmark Australian TV such as The Big Gig, Full Frontal and Tonight Live, and now a regular on shows including Spicks and Specks, The 7PM Project, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation and Good News Week.