Four time nominee for Best Comedy in Just For Laughs in Montreal, Critic’s Pick in the 2014 San Diego International Fringe Festival, and 2015
Melbourne International Comedy Festival nominee for the Golden Gibbo
award, Jon Bennett has been described as ‘the patron saint of storytelling’, ‘a joy to watch’, and ‘bold, honest, engaging and different’.
Bennett mentions that he admires the
work of Mike Birbiglia his storytelling
career, naming him as one of the “most
popular story-telling guy”. Birbiglia was
at the Melbourne International Comedy
Festival a few years back, as well as appearing on This American Life.
Bennett notes, however, that he was
doing storytelling before he knew about
Birbiglia and that he isn’t necessarily influenced by him, but admires him greatly; “I don’t know that, before I started
doing stuff, if I had any influences. I kind