Bangalow will be funny this weekend
Need a good laugh? If so, head out to Bangalow this weekend for the inaugural Bangalow Big Joke Comedy Festival.
It’s being organised by well-known local comic Mandy Nolan, who says: “We have a comic panel with Greg Fleet, Jonathon Atherton and JJJ’s Dave Callan and stand-up performances by some of the country’s best: Fiona O’Loughlin and Scared Weird Little Guys.
“In putting this program together we tried to appeal to a variety of comic tastes as well as involving local emerging comics in the Village Idiot Cup, and Funny Kids!
“In my years of promoting comedy I have had incredible feedback from national and international comics, remarking on what an enthusiastic, informed and intelligent audience we have on the North Coast. We are a community that loves to communicate.
“Stand- up comedy is about having opinions. It’s about laughing at yourself, at your vulnerabilities and failures. Comedy asks us to question our values, our behaviour, our government and our world.
“In a world that is beginning to favour electric and impersonal communication, stand-upcomedy is an immediate and human conversation, where the shortest distance between two people is always a laugh.”
A novel event will be the Big Joke Breakfast at Frescas at the Bangalow Hotel, featuring Sandi Gandhi, pictured, and David Eastgate. Sandi is well-known around the traps not only through her performances, but her En-lighten Up column each Thursday in The Northern Star.
For information on ticket sales, the schedule and performers, visit the Big Joke website.
