Tag: Berlin Fringe

Blake is a comedian, and a freak. Are all comedians freaks? No, some are normal, just like you. He is nothing like you. Come laugh, point and gawk at the freak.

As well as being a freak, Blake is a winner of the 2022 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Best Comedy, in his highly praised collaborative effort with Oliver Coleman in which they played two struggling shovel salesmen on the run from the Russian mob. Most recently, Blake was nominated for Best Music at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe.

“We loved whatever the f#%k that was.” The Umbilical Brothers
‘A young man with naturally funny bones.’ Chortle (UK)
‘Complete and utter mayhem.’ ★★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
‘A natural fit in comedy.’ ★★★★½ The Music
★★★★½ The Age
★★★★½ Beat Magazine

Funny Women Award-winner of 2023 Kate Cheka fleshes out an hour where she wonders why she is always trying to save everything.
Where does this messiah complex come from? That would’ve been a better title for the show but another (!!) comedian got there first so maybe it is also a bit about problematic predators in comedy and the burnout that comes trying to fix it and also my mother who has admitted to thinking she had and I quote ”birthed the messiah”. A show for anyone who is anxious about the state of the world and wonders what to do about it. While the birth of a man who thinks he’s god is not that rare event… behold a woman who thinks so too.
Expect thoughtful and sometimes filthy observations on politics, sex and (pop) culture.

Other accolades include being a BBC New Comedy Award regional finalist 2022, Berlin New Stand-up Award finalist 2019, Funny Women Award semi-finalist 2021 and 2022 one-to-watch. Having performed across in eight countries across four continents Kate has been described as having “stylish comedy delivered with a blend of joy and disdain”.

And some reviews:

‘She’s a smart operator, but wears it lightly, mixing opinionated stand-up with frank and relatable “what was I thinking?”-type personal anecdotes, all delivered with poise’ – Steve Bennett, Chortle

‘A confident set filled with surprising gags and to her ability to put a clever, unexpected twist on newsworthy topics… Kate is a multi-talented comic, with plenty up her sleeve and a lot more to share’ – Zoe Paskett, Funny Women Review

Two 30-minute solo comedies, in which Francesca Bussalai and Michaela ‘Oim’ Schwarzenauer try their best to figure out how to adult.

Salvatore, who is it?
by Francesca Bussalai

“When I grow up, I want to answer the phone like my Dad does. Basically, I want to know how not to waste water and how long 7 meters is.”
The 20-year-old Giulia is trying her best to become an adult, while feeling completely detached from her briefcase-carrying father and her neurotic mother, and everything they embody.

Leather Jacket
by Michaela ‘Oim’ Schwarzenauer

A 2010-teenager-cringefest, following the 13-year-old Lena, growing up between the influence of her oh-so-boring mother and her alcoholic neighbour. Between teenage crushes, self-harm and a constant worry about her non-existing-boob-growth, she slowly discovers what it means to be a person. A show for a good laugh, for a little tear, but ultimately for self-acceptance.

Winner of the 2023 Berlin New Stand Up Awards, Theo Mason Wood brings you an evening of his bizarre comedy, weaving together absurd poetry with electronic music and stories about a suspected yoghurt allergy.

After a sold out show at Berlin Fringe last year, and sold out shows at the Soho Theatre and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, offbeat Australian comedian Josh Glanc returns to Berlin. Don’t miss joyous onstage antics. Or do. I don’t really mind. I’m just the guy who works for CCB that writes all these blurbs. In fact, I can write whatever I want: Blaaa blaaa blaa. Ding dong da. Boing!

“You’ll wish you could live inside his head” ★★★★★ The Advertiser
“An extraordinary talent” ★★★★ The Scotsman
“Bonkers brilliance” ★★★★ The Sydney Morning Herald
“A master of craze” ★★★★ The Guardian

As seen on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival All Star Gala 2024.

Do you think comedy is boring? Are you tired of the same old cliché jokes? Have you had it up to here with comedians “trying”? Oh boy do we have a show for you.

NO JOKE is a stand-up comedy show where the performers are forbidden from using all but a single minute of their so-called “tried & tested” material. That means everything they say for the rest of their set has to be either fresh from their notebooks or, even better, straight off the top of their heads.

Don’t worry, though, as an audience member you’ll be able to directly influence the performance. Heard a joke before? Noticed a factual inaccuracy? Just want to provide unsolicited constructive feedback? Shout it out! Hold these clowns accountable!

Your hosts, esteemed comedy performers Lisa Frischemeier & Matthew Liam Healy, will also be on hand to help performers out with topic suggestions, and to step in if anyone tries to ask audience members what brought them to Berlin.

Total chaos. Big fun. NO JOKE.

Lifelong goody-two-shoes Titi Lee is breaking all the rules, and you are invited. With heartfelt humor and incisive wit, they confront their experience growing up as a first-gen Taiwanese American in the heart of Silicon Valley during the tech boom including coming out as bisexual and then non-binary to their immigrant parents, getting pandemic boobs, and renouncing their good girl ways. Good Girl Gone Baddie is an endearing take on trading in a desperate need to be good for the freedom of being yourself.

Not a work in progress. No progress will be made. This is a work in regress.
In an experiment that is kind of like Bagpuss except horrible, Frankie Thompson is collecting horrible things.

Things she’s picked out of her ear, found stuck to the bottom of her shoe, retrieved from the back of the sofa and unexpectedly found in a sandwich. She sniffs them, licks them and then puts them into a show.

This is part of her ‘I just need to get this out and see what shape it lands in’ season, around the theme ‘horrible’. At least 70% of the horrible things will have been created in the two days before the show, so please do not come if you’re expecting content, plot and/or structure. Any horrible things that are exactly the flavour she’s looking for will stay, all other horrible things will be recycled responsibly.

If you laugh it’s comedy, if you don’t it’s live art.

Praise for Frankie :

‘An epically strange clown show… Frankie is a born comedic talent’
★★★★★ Funny Women

‘Wonderfully, confoundingly funny’
★★★★ The Guardian
Guardian’s Top 5 Comedy Shows of 2022

‘Hysterically funny, deeply strange’
★★★★ Time Out

‘Thompson’s mesmerising… A remarkable and funny show’
★★★★ 1/2 Chortle