Yawp Mag ISSUE 20: The Festival that Was | Page 23

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Photos: Jim Lee
a night over the 22(ish) nights of the festival; if
an average ticket is $25, that’s $3950 into the
common good.
(Not to take anything away from the win, but
his run is dye to his being a MICF website reviewer, a comedian without a show this year, a
to shame some pals of mine who lodge annual
leave for MICF)
The Sweetest Plum podcast host Declan Fay is
next up, announcing the winner of the Golden
Gibbo award. In memory of Melbourne comedienne Lynda ‘Gibbo’ Gibson, the award recognises out-there comedy that pushes the envelope in
the name of artistic integrity and no aversion to
limited commercial success.

the nod. The crew amble onstage in their skinny-legged jeans and brash sensibilities, and under a rallying cry for us to regroup for Kony 2012.
It’s all to the applause and howls from the mezzanine section, proving that comedy groups can
trade blows with those doing the regular standup format.
Next, comedy management whiz Andrew McClelland provides the back story for the Piece
of Wood award: that Greg Fleet never won an
award so he introduced his own, that it’s a piece
of wood and named accordingly too. He also
explains the essence of it: the award is the paton-the-back from one comedian to another and,
essentially, marks the winner as “the comedian’s
comedian,” a hard notion for non-comedy diehards to understand.

For 2014, it’s been a neck-to-neck race but it’s Last year’s winner David Quirk falls into that
Fancy Boy and their Variety Show that gets
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