Can we survive the Abbottalypse? With Tony Abbott waging big battles against Medicare, universities, jobs, barrier reefs, heritage listings, small furry animals and large chunks of young people under 30 many are asking...can we survive this Abbottalypse? Following on from last year’s comedy night Welcome to the Abbottoire Green Left Weekly presents a chortle-filled comedic spectacular Abbottalypse Now. With Abbott on such a savage offensive political satire is a mighty weapon! All funds go to Green Left Weekly and its campaigning against Abbott’s attacks on our precious planet and everybody except the rich. Featuring the comic talents of: *Alice Fraser * Carlo Sands - from Green Left TV’s “Carlo’s Corner” * Hanny - Newcastle-based stand-up comic *Jon Brooks * Shayne Hunter Saturday August 23rd Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville, Hut no. 9 (Theatre). Doors open at 6.30 for a 7.30 start. Food available. Book: 8070 9331. Tickets $15/$20/$30 For more information or arrange interviews with comedians, phone Rachel Evans on 0403 517 266 or Carlo Sands on 0413 194 712. The comedians: Alice Fraser: Alice is a writer, performer and comedian. Shes also a thought nerd, word geek and deed doer, an ex academic, ex-corporate Lawyer and bad musician. During her Masters in English Literature (Rhetoric) at Cambridge, she carried her love of sketch comedy writing and performing into the Cambridge Footlights. Alice is a writer for the satirical news radio show A Rational Fear, and hosts Tracksuits weekly on FBi radio. She has debated Julian Assange at Splendour in the Grass and made her feature length movie debut in Jim Minns Never Hesitate. Her cult weekly podcast Tea With Alice was featured on iTunes New And Notable page. She is a member of the all-star girl comedy troupe Aggressively Helpful, and writes regularly for television, radio and on anything else anyone will let her. alicecomedyfraser/bio.html Hanny: Hanny has been performing stand up since 2008. Her comedy is a mixture of the absurd combined with observations, relatable anecdotes creating an atmosphere of intimate and funny scenarios for the audience. Her ultimate goal is to create comedy spaces for queer and women comics. Enjoy the left bias, enjoy the family anecdotes, enjoy the jokes. Carlo Sands: Sydney-based stand-up and Green Left columnist described by veteran comic Rod Quantock, with whom he has performed, as a sharp, well-informed political comedian who crafts laughter from the absurdities of Left and Right. Carlo performed his show The Yucky Country: Just Make Clive Palmer PM at the Brisbane Fringe Comedy Festival in September. As well as a NSW Raw comedy semi-finalist, Carlo has performed in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin. Jon Brooks: A former journalist and political staffer, Brooks is based in Adelaide because the beer is “heaps gooderer” and his band, The Guantanamo Bay City Rollers, is based there. He is an Australian political comedian. Intelligent and opinionated, yet self-deprecating and accessible, he’s been described as “the child of a drunken tryst between Rodney Rude and Germaine Greer” and “the balance between hope and a shocking warning to us all”. A former journalist and political staffer, Brooks is based in Adelaide because the beer is “heaps gooderer” and his band, The Guantanamo Bay City Rollers, is based there. He has won many awards, too many to mention so check them out here politicalasylum.au/p/bios.html#jon Shayne Hunter: Takes the world on, one joke at a time. Starting his career in mid 2007, he got in a few well received rehearsals before rising to attention of the organisers of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He made it to the state final in Raw Comedy 2008 in the and was later chosen to showcase his talents in the well sort after ‘Comedy Zone 2009′. Shayne works regularly for the Sitdown Comedy Club, QLD Casinos (Jupiter’s and Treasury). Shayne travelled all over the country, appearing at comedy venues in Perth, Victoria and Canberra, as well as being the highlight of the Folk Rhythm, Life Festival and the Woodford Folk Festivals.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:23:13 +0000
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