Katherine Phelps

I was going to do a full-on review of Bruno Lucia’s performance on Thurday, BUT he took advantage of the open-micness of the evening and decided to trial new material. Open mics are about having the freedom to muck around and see what works without fear of failure. That sort of space is invaluable and [...]

I bought myself a ticket to Ross Noble’s 2009 Things Tour as a personal “birth-month” present. I had seen him do his stuff on Spicks and Specks on more than one occasion and enjoyed his humour. The show was at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre where Pink and ACDC had recently played. Those performers are well [...]

The Arkaba Craig Egan and Adelaide Comedy have only recently opened the Arkaba Hotel as a comedy venue.  I like this venue the best of any I have visited in Adelaide. The place is clean, well-kept, with good lighting and good acoustics. The seating has a nice open feeling and ensures that all audience members [...]

It’s almost sad wrapping up these festival reviews. That means I have to come to terms with inter-festival blues. Oh where, oh where is all that nonstop comedy? Well, I guess I shall have to make my own, which I am, but I will have to tell you about it in another posting. Jeff Green [...]

Well, I had all of three days in Melbourne during the comedy festival and had a chance to learn from, meet, and observe a number of very fine comedians. Of course it has now been more than a week since I’ve returned and my brain has been a mess of curdled mushroom soup in recovery [...]

I have a load of reviews up with which I need to catch. I shall start with my favourite show at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Songs from the 86 Tram was the only show for which I actually purchased a ticket last weekend. As part of the Jeez Louise conference I was given [...]

I promise I like comedians and sitcoms that come from other countries than Ireland, like Ed Byrne…oh, hang-on um, Maeve Higgins…no, that’s not right. I know, the show Black Books, that’s based in London. All I can figure is that this blog went up around St Pat’s day and he’s set the leprachauns on me, [...]