The legendary Northern Hotel’s Backroom opens its doors to laughter when it welcomes The Byron Comedy Fest with eight big headline shows.
With audiences packing out shows every year, Festival Directors Mel Coppin and Zara Noruzi have decided a new venue with increased capacity was in order. It also means the festival is an all-weather event – expect all your favourites!
With perennial sell-out shows, Best Of British is headed up by UK comic Dan Willis. Willis welcomes his favourite British funny people, this year’s crop include Bob Franklin, Matt O’Neill and Gillian Cordiner.
Sri Lankan-born comedy superstar Dilruk Jayasinah left the world of finance as a sit-down accountant and started working as a stand-up comic. While his parents may have been a little dismayed at first, Dilruk has become an award-winning face on Australian TV. He’s guested on Network Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention?, Would I Lie To You, and Hughesy, We Have a Problem, ABC’s Spicks and Specks and Question Everything, and showed off his mercurial acting abilities on Channel Ten’s How to Stay Married and ABC’s Utopia. Dilruk has also appeared as a contestant on renowned reality shows including I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Celebrity MasterChef and the Amazon Prime comedy game show Last One Laughing hosted by Rebel Wilson.
Bringing bites of the Bold and the Beautiful is Bev Killick. A non-stop joke-fired power plant of comedy gold. Newly Australian insights come from Venezuelan-born comic Ivan Aristagueita – performing comedy in a second language more expertly than most would do in their first.
With his critically acclaimed show Weed C#nt full of drug references and suitably strong coarse language, John Cruckshank is funny in a way that is raw and sometimes brutal.
Byron Comedy Festival is also featuring two of Melbourne Comedy Festival’s finest, Lewis Garnham and Scout Boxall. Unique, insightful, and pushing into the zeitgeist of the younger gen.
And for those who prefer not to choose, there’s the Comedy Showcase: Gump’s Big Box of Comedy Chocolates.
Shows can to be bought as single tickets, or one-day or three-day passes.
Don’t miss a relentless weekend of laughs with Byron Comedy Fest.
May 30, 31 and June 1.
byroncomedyfest.com for more info.
