Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 14 April
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Stand up comedy in a sit down (and read the fine print) format. Talking Comedians Writing Books brings together a panel of comics, both professionally funny and professionally published. A veritable Comedy Book Festival that will contemplate the longevity, impact and legacy of live versus printed funnies. Featuring Denise Scott and Corinne Grant, and presented by Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Wheeler Centre as part of The Comedy ConFAB - A conference for people serious about their comedy.
Featuring
Corinne Grant
Corinne Grant is a comedian known for her appearances on TV including Good News Week, The Glasshouse and Air Ways.
Corinne began her TV career as a regular Good News Week panellist back in 1999. Corinne’s first full time TV gig was as an original cast member of Rove, first shown on Channel Nine, before moving with Rove Live to the Ten Network in 2000. In 2001 she took on a second job as a founding member of ABC TV’s The Glasshouse continuing with the show until it wrapped in 2006.
She has made guest appearances on everything from Spicks and Specks to Dancing With The Stars. She has co-hosted successful national radio shows, performed countless solo live shows and appeared everywhere from the Sydney Opera House to the Kalgoorlie Arts Centre.
Corinne is currently narrating the second series of Air Ways, while working on a book about hoarding for Allen and Unwin.
Denise Scott
Denise Scott first started working as a professional actor and comedian nearly thirty years ago, but it has been in the last six years that she has been selling out theatres, scoring herself a regular gigs on high rating national television shows and seeing her two books creep towards bestseller status.
Denise first started working as a professional actor and comedian nearly 30 years ago, but it has been in the last decade or so that Scotty has gone supernova – winning awards, selling out theatres, appearing on high-rating TV shows and writing two popular memoirs.
To wit: in 2009 Denise penned All That Happened at Number 26, a book which became a national best seller and a hit tour, with sell-out seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Sydney Opera House. Number 26 was also produced as a DVD for the Warehouse Comedy Festival series.
Scotty’s subsequent solo show, Regrets, was awarded the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Directors’ Choice Award, with Scotty winning a Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer. She then made her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and released her second book, The Tour.
Fittingly, 2013 was all about touring for Denise, hitting the stage with her dear friend Judith Lucy in The Spiral. Their stand-up-slash-book-tour debuted at the Princess Theatre during MICF and went on to sell well over 30,000 tickets across Australia.
Scotty has been and remains a favourite guest on many of Australia's favourite TV shows, including Spicks and Specks, The Project, and Talkin' ‘bout Your Generation, in addition to starring as Trish Gross on Channel 7’s high-rating drama Winners & Losers.
In 2014, Denise returned to the stage once more with a new, Barry Award-winning solo show, Mother Bare, at Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Opera House and the Brisbane Powerhouse. And in 2015, Mother Bare returned to MICF for a limited run at the Comedy Theatre and the prestigious Hamer Hall. Denise also guested in Please Like Me, Jack Irish and House Husbands.