Get ready to ROFL!

The Melbourne Interntaional Comedy Festival pulled together an incredible line up of Australian-Malaysian comedians from the 2022 festival to celebrate our shared love of comedy at The Joke Factory in Kuala Lumpur.

The show Comedy Connections: Melbourne & Malaysia, was hosted by Lizzy Hoo and showcased:

• Suren Jayemanne
• Hannan Azlan
• Brian Tan
• Phil Wang
• Prakash Daniel
• Douglas Lim
• Joanne Kam Poh Poh

You can now watch the recorded show on the Festival’s Youtube channel.

For the past 35 years the Festival has been a cross-cultural celebration of the funniest people in the world. It has a proud connection with Malaysia and has enjoyed almost a decade of cultural exchange. The Festival has supported tours of Australian comedians to Malaysian cities and presented emerging and established artists from Malaysia’s dynamic comedy scene in Australia at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and beyond. A true intercultural alliance, the Festival looks forward to growing the collaboration between Malaysian performers and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival – the biggest comedy festival in the southern hemisphere and one of the top three comedy festivals in the world.

This show was produced with the support of the Australian Government’s flagship public diplomacy initiative, Australia now, which focused on Malaysia in 2021 and 2022, with additional support from Creative Victoria.