| Big Joke 2008 Program & Tickets |
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Big Joke 2008 Program / Poster |
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Big Joke 2008 Gold Pass |
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Gold Pass: Entry to all events at the 2008 Big Joke Festival EXCEPT workshops (Gold passes are non-transferable & strictly limited in number) |
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GOLD PASS: $220 - To purchase a gold pass online from NORPA, click here! |
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Shooting From My Hip Replacement
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A dynamic stand up comedy performance by some very edgy elderlies! Mandy Nolan has lent her comedy guidance to seniors from Byron to Lismore to create a show that smashes the stereotypes around ageing. Growing old doesn't mean getting boring. You just have so much more to laugh at. Come and hear your Nanna dish the dirt! MC: Mandy Nolan |
| TIX: $15 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303. |
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Braindate
Thursday 14 Feb, 7pm at Bangalow Bowling Club |
| Join your dating game show host The Gold Brain for this titillating St Valentine's Day treat as BrainDate throws six singles into the mixing pot of game show love and finds out which two brains bubble to the surface. Singles will be in the running to win a romantic dinner date at restaurant Fresca at the Bangalow Hotel after the show. BrainDate has just finished its first hit series on Brisbane 31 television, now see the show live. Let The Mind Games Begin! For more information, check out braindate.com.au. MC: Gold Brain |
| TIX: $15 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303. |
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Funny Faces - Official Opening Drinks
Thursday 14 Feb, 5.30pm at the Bangalow A&I Hall |
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Who can pull the funniest face? Mandy Nolan and photographer Jules Ober have scoured the community for the best gurn (old english tradition of face pulling). The exhibition captures our community spirit of fun and proves that we really can laugh at ourselves! Audiences are asked to place a vote for the People's Choice for Big Joke's Funniest Face with a basket of goodies and the honour of being the face of Big Joke 09!!! For more, check out our funny faces page.
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| TIX: FREE!!! |
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My Funny Valentine.
Thursday 14 Feb, 8.30pm at the Bangalow A&I Hall Julia Morris, Vanessa Wagner, Amelia Jane Hunter, Lola the Vamp, Tina Trash |
     Find out just what love really has to do with it with some of the biggest hearts and sharpest tongues in the business. International performer, Julia Morris shares how it is, the glamorous Vanessa Wagner gives us a peek as to how it isn't & Lola the Vamp dons her feathers and shows us how it should be. Also featuring the hard edged sledge of Amelia Jane Hunter and the risque hoops queen Tina Trash. Love me, Love me not, it doesn't matter, because by the end of the show you will be totally & absolutely in Laugh!
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| TIX: $37.50 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303 or to buy tix online from NORPA, click here! |
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Mad Dogs & Englishman
Friday 15 Feb, 7pm at the Bangalow A&I Hall Anthony Morgan, Gordon Southern, Jonathan Atherton |
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   Jonathan Atherton is a global raconteur who deconstructs the very nature of Australian identity, he's irreverent, relentless & gloriously reckless. Anthony Morgan is a Tasmanian dwelling hermit, a laid back larrikin with a chicken under one arm and a joke under the other, when they are joined by the eloquent & eclectic Gordon Southern, it's like Fear & Loathing Bangalow style.
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| TIX: $37.50 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303 or to buy tix online from NORPA, click here! |
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Burlesque Show
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In just two days International Queen of Seduction, Lola the Vamp can turn a mild mannered secretary into a red hot burlesque performer! Dancers & lovers of burlesque present their graduation performance complete with feathers, fans and fun! With the shy, retiring, undie flashing Mandy Nolan as MC, you will see your friends & associates as you have never ever seen them! |
| TIX: $15 at the door or pre sale on 02 6687 2000. |
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Laughter Yoga with Milli O'Nair. FREE
Saturday 16 Feb, 9am at the Bangalow Showgrounds |
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Laughter Yoga has been credited with having significant health benefits, as it is a simple and innovative technique based on the philosophies of activating happiness and Yoga. If your body acts happy, your mind will follow! This is a mind and body workout that will get you all warmed up for a very funny weekend. This is FREE open air event. BYO laughing gear. |
| TIX: FREE!!! |
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The Night I Died
Saturday 16 Feb, 12pm at the Bangalow A&I Hall Festival Bar Mandy Nolan in conversation with feature comedians from the Big Joke (Surprise!) |
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Every comedian has a war story about the night they went on stage and died. Comics all over the world have died in the name of their craft, whether that be at Biker's Clubs, Theatres or live broadcasts. For some unexplained reason, it all wasn't alright on the night. For new comics, a stage death can be devastating. Established comics are more battle savvy. Find out how four comics at the peak of their craft have coped with stage 'death' and lived to kill again! |
| TIX: $15 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303. |
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Two Minute Noodles - Kid's Performance
Saturday 16 Feb, 12.30pm at Bangalow RSL Hall |
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Stand up comedian and circus performer, Dolores Homann presents 15 kids performing a show that they created from the 10am - 12pm morning workshop. It's where chaos and genius collide!!! The show will also feature a 15 minute cameo by High Priestess of the Hula Hoop, Ms Tina Trash. |
| TIX: $5 at the door on the day. |
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Funny Kids
Saturday 16 Feb, 3pm at the Bangalow A&I Hall |
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Hear what kids have to say about life, love, school & family in their own words! Mandy Nolan has taught over 20 kids the gentle art of stand up comedy, and this is their very first performance. If it's anything like last year, this is an extraordinary experience - hysterical, touching & empowering. This year Funny Kids is presented in association with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with one of the kids being chosen to compete at the Class Clowns Final in Brisbane. For more information about "Funny Kids", click here! MC: Mandy Nolan |
| TIX: $15 at the door or pre sale on 02 6687 2000. |
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Kids Cartoons on powerpoint with Brendan Lovechild
Saturday 16 Feb, 7pm at A&I Festival Bar |
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Comedian/Cartoonist, Brendan Lovechild presents kids cartoons from the Saturday morning cartoon workshop. See the workshop page for more details. |
| TIX: FREE!!! |
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Think, Thank, Thunk: Sun Berner & Ozborn
Saturday 16 Feb, 8pm at the Bangalow A&I Hall Peter Berner, Nick Sun, Joel Ozborn |
   Dark, untraversed, rapid fire comic assault on your senses. The thinking men of Aussie comedy perform a comic autopsy on the societal cadaver. It's Comedy CSI, and you won't know until you really and truly know WHY!!!
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| TIX: $37.50 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303 or to buy tix online from NORPA, click here! |
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Cracked Eggs
Sunday 17 Feb, 9am at Bangalow A&I Hall - Cafe/Bar Fiona McGary, Elissa Hawke, Dolores, Ellen Briggs, Anna Log, Lou Sanz, Cath Styles, Elle Sejean, Kathryn Bendall |
       
Stand up comedy has always been a man's world where only the bravest broads dare to tread. These days more and more women are taking the plunge and deciding to give stand up a go. After participating as a mentor with the Jeez Louise Women's Workshop at Melbourne Comedy Festival last year, Mandy Nolan has invited some inspiring new women performers from Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney to come and strut their stuff. The performance also features women at the top of their game: the brilliant Fiona McGary and Elissa Hawke.
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| TIX: $32.50 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303 or to buy tix online from NORPA, click here! |
| The Village Idiot |
   The Village Idiot is the Big Joke's search for the newest & hottest stand up talent. With 4 heats running at the Urban/Bang Thai from Friday to Sunday culminating in a Grand Final at the Bangalow Pub on Sunday at 1pm. First prize is $500 from the Bangalow Chamber of Commerce. All heats are FREE. So who will be the Festival Idiot? The Village Idiot Final brings together the winners of the cafe heats over the course of the weekend to battle it out for the $500 and their name engraved on Perpetual Idiot Trophy! Mc'd by UK comic, out for the Melbourne Comedy Festival: Gordon Southern.
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TIX: All heats are FREE !!!
TIX TO THE FINAL: $15 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303. |
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The Comedy Debate: Bigger is Better
Sunday 17 Feb, 3pm at Bangalow A&I Hall Anthony Morgan, Nick Sun, Jonathan Atherton, Fiona McGary, Greg Sullivan, Elissa Hawke, Brendan Lovechild |
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In a World poised on the brink of destruction, can we still say that Bigger is Better? The Comedy Debate brings 6 comics head to head under the gracious chair of Anthony Morgan to discuss this very pertinent question: Is Bigger really Better?
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| TIX: $27.50 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303. |
| Amelia Jane Hunter is Keith Flipp Sunday 17 Feb, 5pm at Bangalow Bowling Club |
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Amelia Jane scored herself the coveted Moosehead Award from the Melbourne Comedy Festival for this one woman gender bending show. It has since wowed audiences in Edinburgh. In this ground breaking comedy performance Ameila Jane Hunter tells the story of Keith Flipp, the twin that vanished in utero and now appears one week every three months a year in a grungy drag queen bar. For more information, check out Amelias website. |
| TIX: $15 at the door or pre sale at Urban 02 6687 2000 or 02 6687 1303. |
| This year at The Big Joke we have extended the workshop program! We've targeted some fun and challenging activities for the kids with circus, cartooning & stand up and an exotic opportunity in learning burlesque performance for the adults alongside stand up for seniors! To find out more, please check out our workshops page. |
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