2011 NZ International Comedy Festival presents: Last Laugh

2011 NZ International Comedy Festival presents: Last Laugh

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN – THE GRAND FINALE
The pinnacle of excellence in kiwi comedy, Last Laugh rounds off an incredible three weeks of entertainment with a night of retrospection and celebration. It’s the 2011 NZ International Comedy Festival’s grand finale!

The awards ceremony will honour the crème de la crème of the 2011 Festival, with awards like Best International Show, Best Local Show and Spirit of the Festival to name just a few.

The big awards handed out on this night are the coveted towel and the sacred gumboot – the Billy T Award and The FRED.

Named in honour of comedy icon John Clarke’s legendary “Fred Dagg”, The FRED recognises and celebrates the achievements of our fine country’s comedy and sets about exporting it to the rest of the world.

The Billy T Awards’ yellow towel has become symbolic of the incredible growth of kiwi comedy, with previous winners (including Ewen Gilmour, Dai Henwood, Ben Hurley, Steve Wrigley, Rhys Mathewson and Justine Smith) having moved from the comedy circuit to the entertainment world. With the award’s objective to recognise and support up-and-coming kiwi comics with outstanding potential, this year’s nominees are no exception to that rule:

- Nick Gibb – Hailing from Palmerston North, “Nick Gibb has a knack for finding genuinely hilarious material in the unlikeliest of places” – The Guardian, UK

- Joseph Harper – Moving from Christchurch to Auckland to study, Joseph "willfully, and successfully, subverts the audiences presumptions... a supremely gifted performer and one of the leading alternative comedians working today." – coupdemainmagazine.com, NZ

- Urzila Carlson – Emigrating from South Africa four years ago, we now claim her as our own – and for good reason – she won the 2010 NZ Comedy Guild’s ‘Best Female Comedian Award’.

- Nick Rado – The ladies’ favourite happens to also be a UK favourite, where he received four-star reviews in Edinburgh. “On-its-toes comedy and crowd-pleasing buffoonery at its best”

– www.Threeweeks.co.uk

- Cameron Murray – He’s been referred to as Wellington’s most ‘cerebral’ comic and was crowned National Raw Comedy Quest Winner in 2008.

So ladies and gentlemen, if you will… charge your glasses with this year’s host Michele A’Court, let’s toast the 2011 winners and the whole damn Festival, and savour the Last Laugh!

For news, reviews and sweet deals, visit www.comedyfestival.co.nz

Last Laugh
Sunday 22 May, 7pm (duration: 2+ hours)
SKYCITY Theatre, Level 3, Corner Wellesley and Hobson Street, CBD
Tickets: Adults $45, Groups 6+ $39.50*
Bookings: 0800 TICKETEK www.ticketek.co.nz

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