Another one of festival favourite from last year Clara Cupcakes is back! Join her for a party celebrating four years for her in the comedy circuit, where you’ll walk into the cutest gathering of the festival. Balloons, pass the parcel, piñata and more await you in Clara’s burlesque cabaret wonderland.

An enlightened, charming and empowered look at aging and growing up too fast, Amity Dry brings her 39 Forever show back to Chapel off Chapel for her comedy festival debut. We loved it last year and this year is no different: it’s still a sparkling, enthralling, fun, laugh out loud night of cabaret and song.

Fresh off his run at Brisbane Comedy Festival last year and playing a variety of venues across the festival, Rhys Nicholson is a clever, insightful and sassy comic in his latest show Seminal, which it is.

One of my fabulous festival favourites is back with a darker but equally as funny show, Let’s Hang Out, Jude Perl is know for her fantastic voice, excellent skills on a piano, her magical, awkward comedic timing and her witty way with words, composing fantastic, savage or observant songs about her life.

Ladies, gentlemen, and all those yet to make up there mind, it’s time to roll up for the quirkiest cabaret circus in town- the Briefs boys are back! On their third visit to Melbourne and lighting up The Famous Spiegeltent at Arts Centre Melbourne, they’re as loud, proud and funny as ever, presenting cabaret, dance, drag, circus tricks… it’s RuPaul’s Drag Race meets an Aussie Cirque du Soleil.

It’s Gillian Cosgriff’s 10th anniversary of song writing, and where better to celebrate it than the basement of Melbourne Town Hall! With four solo shows, 25 festival seasons, and crowds of all sizes under her belt, she returns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to play her favourite original songs from her varied career and rework some old songs in new ways.

A self indulgent but witty media reel welcomes you to Joel Creasey’s show Blonde Bombshell, where he will take you on an hour of laugh out loud celebrity stories, awkward tales and stories from his life.

I never thought I’d coin the term ‘opera dominatrix’ and yet here we are, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018 and BK Opera are presenting Pirates of Penzance, only this isn’t the version your grandmother took you to see when you were a kid, it’s the everyone in your undies, whips and bondage kind of adults only show… except it’s much more tame than that.

One of the best things about seeing improv performers as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is that no performance will be the same, leading to completely brand new, never seen before shows performed every night. The Big Hoo Ha light up the festival again this year following a sell out run at MICF 2017 and 8 years on the scene in Melbourne as a beloved weekly improv group. Non stop fun and adventure is in store!

He’s come a long way from performing in the lunch room but Tom Gleeson has been an Australian house hold name for some time.

For his second offering at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Ben Knight is back to share with you what teachers really think about parents, kids and the education system.

The RAW Comedy events are a real opportunity to support growing comedians in Australia, and the Grand Final Event as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival is no different. 

One of the stand out shows of the festival, Green Room award winner Jude Perl returns with her latest show Roommates the Musical

The critically acclaimed performer is on her latest tour de force, following a Golden Gibbo nomination and two previous and well received shows, her big hair and magical flair is back. 

You know his voice from KIIS FM and he’s been on plenty of Australian TV shows, but Dave Hughes is back with his latest show, Deluded as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Tommy Little has a 4.8 Uber rating, a range of stories that will make you cringe and the audience roar with laughter in his latest show, Good Talk. 

Frank Woodley appears to have lost his way and lost the funny, but lucky enough that’s exactly why his new show, I Woodley, is about.

I must have looked like the strangest, and keenest person in the room taking notes at a female masturbation seminar, but I promise you I am a journalist.

And now, something to entertain the kids these school holidays. Meet George, ‘Cleaner to the Stars’ and explore his world of theatre, life and cleaning up after the show, features costumes, props and laughter.

The 1980s apocalypse cabaret is back to rock your Monday nights at Comedy Festival, featuring Geraldine Quinn and Cameron Thomas on keys.