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25.01.2022 TONIGHT 8.30 PM Free Comedy @highlanderbar "The best room in Melbourne" #freeeventsmelbourne #freethingstodomelbourne... #melbournetodolist #melbournetodo #melbournecomedy See more

25.01.2022 Free Comedy @ Highlander is back! From Wednesday 17 February from 8.30 PM (yep, new night, NOT on Tuesdays)... Go to the Australian Free Comedy Forum to book a spot. More info coming soon. Since 2011. This is the original and, by far, the best Open Mic comedy night in Melbourne. Everyone says so. Avoid cheap imitations. Check out these genuine and in no way fabricated reviews. "I couldn't get a gig there. It's that good. Or maybe I never asked. I honestly can't remember" - K. Chandler "You can say whatever you like at Free Comedy and the worst that can happen is you end up being judged by a Joke Tribunal run by an actual lawyer" - I. Milat "I expected more cliques but nobody at Free Comedy could be bothered starting any" - D. Somers

24.01.2022 Granma Nazzi is a on a mission to rid the world of bad grammar, slang and other text related crime.

24.01.2022 TOMORROW NIGHT Tuesday 15 December, 7.30 PM A Post Lockdown Free Comedy Open Mic Xmas Extravaganza! Featuring... Blaise White (MC) Carey Joy Grant Cater Damien Vosk Joel Temperly Thomas Banks Judy Stutz Warrick Sutton Aditya Gautam Andrew Forsyth Joel Smith-Rainey Andrew Iles Rhys Halliwell Liam Radi Richard Meneses Peter Kyprianou Shanjay Perinpanathan Alex Cross Paul Tucker Katman Eckz Kieran Butler Free finger food and limited complimentary drinks courtesy of Awkward Giraffe.

23.01.2022 The High Definition version of Episode One of Troubadour Tunes will premiere this Sunday night at 7.30 PM (AEST) at dvomediatv on youtube. It will be available to watch on demand at approximately 8.17 PM! Tune into Troubadour Tunes! We're working on Episode 2 right now! ... https://youtu.be/lKanQ_fc5ZM

22.01.2022 Granma Nazzi - Episode 2 - "Redundant" Featuring Donald Trump "As subversive and satirical as you'll find on the internet. Makes you check you're spelling and syntax" - Grammar Weekly (available monthly)

22.01.2022 Get down and support our big comeback show tomorrow night (Wed 24 Feb). This room is clearly important in the scheme of Melbourne comedy and Blaise and I are committed to keeping it going as best we can. Don't take it for granted. It's more tenous than you think. Get down and support it even when you aren't booked in. See you tomorrow night. Cheers, Kieran.

21.01.2022 Episode 2 of The Skinny has some great advice on how to navigate the madness of the Melbourne Open Mic comedy scene as a beginner. Gavin Sempel is one of the hardest working comics in this town. Have a listen. https://anchor.fm/gavin-sempel

21.01.2022 It was packed out at @highlanderbar for Free Comedy Australia. Accept no imitations! Check out our 2020 MICF line up at www.freecomedy.com.au

21.01.2022 Hey everyone. Please note that date for this has moved to next Tuesday night, December 15... https://fb.me/e/1OQmljaB8

21.01.2022 Closing night for the Free Comedy @Highlander 2021 Rebel Festival

20.01.2022 Another huge night @highlanderbar freecomedy.com.au

20.01.2022 TONIGHT 8.00 PM Free Comedy @highlanderbar Happy Hour from 5-7 PM Food and drink specials all night The original and the best! ... Avoid cheap imitations #melbournetodo #melbournetodolist #freethingsmelbourne #freeeventsmelbourne See more

20.01.2022 Free Comedy @Highlander - 2021 MICF

19.01.2022 Join the Forum for all the details related to Free Comedy @ Highlander... https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeComedyAus/?ref=bookmarks

19.01.2022 This should offend a lot of idiots so expect it to go quite well. You can hear them now. "Exploitation of children... Anti-semitism... Blah blah fucking blah" https://youtu.be/ZH_HO8rdQ9A

18.01.2022 This was filmed @ Highlander by Judy Stutz & Kieran Butler with Blaise White. Free Comedy represent! Check it out... A new website with some cracking live music and chat filmed in Melbourne last month. If you can, please donate via the links so we can keep making more of it. All donations to the artists and production crew. www.troubadourtunes.online

18.01.2022 Them: "Hey Blaise, are you worried that after your very successful rebel festival the Highlander will slow down and the open mics will become quiet" Me: HIGHL...ANDER HAVE YOU HAD FUN TONIGHT Come down and experience the Highlander for yourself next Wednesday at 8.30 with another cracking line up It's becoming the open mic night youre not too embarrassed to take your friends to

16.01.2022 Last night was more than likely the last hurrah at Highlander, where I have been running Open Mic comedy and curating MICF and Fringe seasons for the past 3 yea...rs. We kicked off proceedings with an AGM for Awkward Giraffe, a small not for profit charity I have chaired for the past 18 months. I was setting up the PA to get ready to play a few tunes with Michelle Wilson Butler at the conclusion of the AGM and discovered that the note 'C' on my guitar was causing horrific feedback problems. C is an important and oft used chord in many songs. Upon going to my guitar case get the trusty Feedback Buster one uses in these situations, I discovered I had left it at home... Panic ensued, so I raced upstairs to find anything to cover the sound hole with. Lo and behold, tucked away in a drawer, were a box of flyers from when we launched Awkward Giraffe in October 2019. The face on the flyer is Eurydice Jane Dixon, who is the sole reason AG exists. But I wasn't home and hosed yet. I had nothing to hold the flyer in place. I rifled through my bag of leads and pedals and found a home made violin bracket I made in 2007 at the Edinburgh Fringe that I keep with me for some strange reason. It hasn't been used in years I stripped the original gaffa tape from it and taped the flyer in place. It was still sticky after 13 years. Problem solved. No more feedback. We played a solid set with Eurydice standing sentry just beneath 6 resonating strings. Stories like this are what make show business the exhilarating ride it quite often is.

16.01.2022 On Saturday I went into my back catalogue of musical parody before handing over to the excellent Clinton Gin. I told the story of how my parody "Porn" was playe...d to Natalie Imbruglia. It is such a dumb story from so long ago that I am beginning it think is not true. It is. Here is what we used to call in the 70's, "proof". https://soundcloud.com/kieran-b/porn-feat-natalie-imbruglia See more

15.01.2022 TONIGHT 8.00 PM Free Comedy @highlanderbar Happy Hour from 5-7 PM Food and drink specials all night... Avoid imitations freecomedy.com.au #melbournetodo #freeeventsmelbourne #melbournetodolist #freeeventsmelbourne

15.01.2022 Last night at Highlander was one those shows that proves why this is the best Open Mic room in Melbourne. A couple of people who know their comedy and showed up... to watch last night said as much to me. The all pervasive culture that has grown up around other rooms over the past decade in Melbourne has not affected what we continue to do. We stand alone. We're the best by far. It's important work. Thanks for supporting it. Cheers, Kieran See more

14.01.2022 UPDATE - Free Comedy @ Highlander - Oct 25, 2020 While there are still strict limts on how many people can be in a public venue at any time, there are no plans ...to re-commence Open Mic comedy at Highlander. As soon as anything changes I will let y'all know right here. Kieran Butler "The Godfather 3 of Melbourne comedy" - Alan Driscoll See more

14.01.2022 Doing some of the comedy this Friday in Elwood. I used to live in Elwood across the road from Paul Hester. I played footy for Elsternwick, played tunes with Jam...es Manson, cabbed it back there with Anthony Morgan and Bryan Dawe one night, delivered pizzas to people off Neighbours and the Channel 7 news and got to front TISM at Elwood RSL. I also lived in a house called Kelvin. Yep, that should fill in 15 minutes... See ya, there. Thanks, Peter Murphy and Anna Murphy See more

13.01.2022 More crap from the archives... Stand up from 15 years ago...

13.01.2022 Free Comedy @highlanderbar TONIGHT 8.30 PM "The best room in Melbourne" $5 Beer & Wine from 5-7 PM #freeeventsmelbourne #freethingstodomelbourne... #melbournecomedy #melbournetodo #melbournetodolist #comegetnotfamous See more

12.01.2022 There is a meta comedy reference here. Can you spot it...

12.01.2022 After an 18 month Covid-induced hiatus #YesAllWomen Comedy returned to the Highlander Bar with a line up of fresh faces and experienced campaigners. With MC ...Pradeepa Timmermans at the helm, there was a notable diversity of both personnel and material from Becky Steepe, Rachel Unicomb, Carey Joy, Akemi Kawabata, Hannah Sainty, Aarti Vincent, Jess Pearman, Krutika Harale, Zoe Crawford and Lisa Sharpe. A capacity crowd were treated to fantastic night of comedy from newly minted rising stars and Melbourne comedy stalwarts alike. It is clear that many of the featured performers are destined for much bigger things. Not-for-profit Awkward Giraffe has presented #YesAllWomen comedy since 2019, but this all-female comedy project dates back to 2013. Awkward Giraffe chair, Kieran Butler, made mention that it is three years since Awkward Giraffe benefactor, Eurydice Dixon, was performing her 2018 debut show At home I feel like a tourist at Highlander Bar. Many of the photos of Eurydice Dixon performing that were etched into the public consciousness were taken at #YesAllWomen Comedy nights. It was a place where her unique comedic talents were nutured and continued to flourish. Awkward Giraffe will continue to support the platform for development that #YesAllWomen Comedy provides.

10.01.2022 Back in 1996 I wrote this parody to the tune of "Sorrento Moon" about David Boon. We gave it a lash on "Red Faces" and for 5 minutes there it looked like Greg Chappell was interested in releasing it. As per usual, nothing happened. A muso friend knew another fella who had brought back an ADAT from the US. It was a brand new 8 track recording machine that recorded in digital to a Super VHS tape. We used it to record this. I recently dug out the tape and using an old ADAT mach...ine managed to re-assemble the tracks on my computer. This is the remixed and mastered version of "Momento Boon". It is now 25 years old. That is just depressing.

09.01.2022 Here is an article that Clint and I wrote, comparing the Gender Pay Gap to the wealth gap between the average full time worker wage, and average top ASX 100 CEO wage. The comparisons are startling, begging us to ask: Gender Pay Gap - Is It A Red Herring? Check out the infographics that Clint whipped up to make the point very, very clear!

07.01.2022 Episode 2 of Troubadour Tunes will premiere this Saturday night at 7.30 PM (AEST) here - https://youtu.be/9DRhmxYnBBI It will be available to watch on demand at approximately 8.20 PM! Recorded live at the Highlander Bar, Melbourne with Jetty Road, Blaise White & Andrew Pattison. Also featuring Chris Smither & highlights from the 2020 Burke & Wills Folk Festival with Gina Jeffreys, Rod McCormack, The Weeping Willows & Khristian Mizzi.... More info @ www.troubadourtunes.online

04.01.2022 ***SPECIAL LATE SHOW TONIGHT*** Episode 25 of My Life Of Sport with One-Eyed Collingwood barracker, & Comedian KIERAN BUTLER ***10pm (Melb DST) tonight on ...Insta Live**** Details www.gavin-ingham.com Insta www.instagram.com/gavin_ingham_comedy

03.01.2022 Is that a fly on a white guy?

03.01.2022 Rachel Unicomb kicks off Free Comedy @highlanderbar to another full room. Melbourne's original Free Comedy Crew. Avoid imitations. 2020 MICF line up @freecomedy.com.au

03.01.2022 For all the cricket tragics... featuring Derek Randall, Gary Cosier, Gina Jeffreys, Rod McCormack, Tommy Leaonard and Andrew Pattison... https://youtu.be/98uVAnjLEk4

02.01.2022 Just another Beautiful Tuesday Night at the Home of Free Comedy Australia Make sure you get down and support the room, put your name down, or go the fourm and book a spot Thank you to everyone that makes The Highlander what it is ... -Blaise

01.01.2022 The best open mic comedy night in Melbourne is back! Now with typographical errors! This Wednesday (not Tuesday) from 8.30 PM. Get down and make it massive folks