It’s funny season in the City

It’s Com­edy fest­iv­al time in the Cap­it­al.

Per­son­ally I think the tim­ing is always quite impec­cable as winter has just hit and with it comes the winter blues. There are loads of amaz­ing loc­al acts and also some bril­liant inter­na­tion­als.

Now nor­mally the inter­na­tion­al acts like to include a little loc­al con­tent to make the crowd love them more. Often it’s lim­ited to jokes about wind, jaf­fas and Aus­trali­ans. Sammy J is clearly the excep­tion to the rule, and to prove it he’s even been mak­ing some extremly cute videos.

You can catch him at Down­stage from tonight.

My hot loc­al tip is the The Comedi­ettes.  Emma, Jim and Sarah were amaz­ing at the fringe fest­iv­al with their stand up show. Sarah’s been win­ning a few com­edy com­pet­i­tions lately, so you now she’s going to bring the giggles.