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Airdate: 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala

The Gala, hosted by Matt Okine, is the first of multiple MICF events on ABC.

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ABC has again partnered with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for multiple events to screen from late March, many with familiar ABC faces.

Lavish, loud and full of laughs, The Gala, hosted by Matt Okine, and the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow raise the curtain on ABC’s MICF programming. These two premiere nights of laughs showcase a stellar line up of the best comedians from across the globe, Festival legends, and the brightest new stars on the comedy circuit.

The Great Debate returns in 2018, this year moderated by the brilliant Magda Szubanski. Magda will do her very best to keep our feisty bunch of debaters in line as they try to sway the audience to their point of view. Upfront: The Queens of Comedy sees the fiercest and funniest ladies of comedy join forces to deliver a night of outstanding wit, charm and lip; and Comedy Up Late, hosted by Susie Youssef, brings the Festival’s breakthrough performers to a new national audience.

Exclusive to iview, Three Minutes with… is a 20-part series featuring a variety of comedians answering relevant – and some irrelevant – questions!

The Gala
Hosted by Matt Okine, The Gala is Australia’s premiere night of giggles and giving, showcasing a star-studded line-up of local and international comedians to raise funds for Oxfam.

8.30pm Sunday 25 March on ABC, iview and simulcast on ABC Comedy.

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  1. I can’t believe the saturation coverage the ABC is giving to this event. The ad they ran last night talked about simulcasts on 2 TV stations and on iView. Come off it, does it warrant this extensive coverage? The public isn’t interested. The ABC’s obsession with comedy is stupid, there seems to be someone high in their hierarchy hell-bent on forcing comedy onto the public.

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