The Sydney Comedy Festival have dropped their first line-up announcement for next year, featuring a slew of local and international acts who are destined to make you laugh so hard you spit out your Thatchers.
The list of acts is lead by young Scottish lad Daniel Sloss, whose 2016/17 show So? – renamed Jigsaw for this year’s Netflix special – has so far played a part in more than 10,000 break-ups, 34 canned engagements and 38 divorces. We caught X, his 2018/19 show which comes to SCF next year, at the start of its run in Edinburgh in August and can vouch that it’s fkn funny, and also confronting – probably the best male take on sexual assault we saw over the festival. Just watch the Netflix specials if you need convincing about Sloss’ comedy chops.
Meanwhile the Australian contingent is led by the likes of Nazeem Hussain and Demi Lardner. Hussain, who you may remember from I’m a Celebrity! last year, now helms sketch show Orange Is the New Brown on Channel 7, which kicked off last week to much applause. He’ll be returning to SCF with his new show Basic Idiot.
Demi Lardner meanwhile is part of SBS‘ The Feed team, and we paid tribute to her masterful work last week. If her show next year, Ditch Witch 800, is anything like the madcap absurd comedy of this year’s I Love Skeleton – it will be – then it’s a must-watch. We’ve never been more delighted to hear the phrase “It’s a me, Mario!” as part of a gag.
Joel Creasey, Akmal, Tahir and The Stevenson Experience round out the rest of the Aussies announced as yet.
Meanwhile Arj Barker, Stephen K. Amos and Ross Noble head up the list of other internationals on the bill so far, as joined by Jimeoin, Georgie Carroll and Melanie Bracewell, who writes for NZ What We Do in the Shadows spin-off Wellington Paranormal.
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— Melanie Bracewell (@meladoodle) October 31, 2018
Sydney Comedy Festival, whose full program drops in February, runs from April 22 to May 19. You’ll be able to cop all your tickets from this Friday November 16 HERE.
