2023 Festival Award winners
- 22 April 2023
- · Awards
Pull quote or highlighted text. Max 3 lines. Gillian Cosgriff takes out two honours including Most Outstanding Show Award
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This is a text link. On the final Saturday of the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Australian comedy industry came together to celebrate the highlights of this year’s Festival. After 25 days – and with one to go, the Festival has seen over 636 shows with more than 7,000 individual performances and countless laughs
Hosted by Zoë Coombs Marr at The Famous Spiegeltent, the nominees were joined by special guests and past winners. Taking out the top award for the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show was Gillian Cosgriff – Actually, Good.
Nominees included: Emma Holland – Save The Orangutans; Guy Williams (NZ) – Comedy Plus Time Equals Tragedy (NZ); Hannah Camilleri – Lolly Bag; Jordan Gray (UK) – Is it a Bird?; Laura Davis – Well Don't Just Stand There Dancing; Leo Reich (UK) – Literally Who Cares?!; Liz Kingsman – One Woman Show; Rosie Jones (UK) – Triple Threat; and Tom Ballard – It Is I.
The Best Newcomer Award, for the best solo performer or group of performers doing their first Festival show, went to Aiden Willcox & Isaac Haigh – Songs from the Heart in the Hole of my Bottom.
Nominees included: Andrew Hamilton – Jokes About the Time I Went to Prison; Bron Lewis – Probably; Freddie McManus – Freddie McManus Is Stoppable; He Huang – Bad Bitch; Ray O'Leary (NZ) – Everything Funny All The Time Always; and Sashi Perera – Endings.
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