Come one come all to our final show for 2011! It's our year-in-review event as we laugh about both the latest and greatest political gaffes of the past 12 months. Any audience members caught holding hands will need to provide a valid marriage certificate or risk expulsion from the venue.

Featuring:
Aamer Rahman
Tommy Little
Gerard McCulloch
Toby Halligan
Watson
Danny McGinlay
Stella Young
Xavier Toby
and Mathew Kenneally as your MC

Sunday 11th December @ 7:30pm
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
Cost: $10 Full, $5 Conc. at the door.

Join the Facebook event here.

It's summer season at Political Asylum, which means a later start time (7:30pm) and lots of big summer laughs. Our massive lineup this month:
Dave O'Niel
Kate Mclennan
Mathew Kenneally
Telia Neville
Scott Abbot
Dingo & Wolf
Morven Smith
Jennifer Wong
and hosted by Ben McKenzie

Join the Facebook event here.

Sunday 13th November @ 7:30pm
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road Brunswick

$10 Full / $5 Conc. at the door

See you there!

Come one, come all, to the third annual appearance of Political Asylum at the Melbourne Fringe Festival!

That's right, Fringe organisers have once again (foolishly?) handed the keys to the Fringe Club over to the Political Asylum crew for another night of satirical tomfoolery. This year on the main stage we offer you the following razer sharp lineup of talented wits:

• Multiple Barry nominee and character comic Damian Callinan!
• ComFest Critics Choice Award recipient and door fetishist Asher Treleaven!
• Former Fringe Best Comedy Award winner Mathew Kenneally!
• QandA alumni Stella Young!
• Amazing Race funnyman Mohammed El-Leissy!
• 2011 ComFest Best Newcomer nominee Toby Halligan!
• Sydney's satirical son Scott Abbot!

Wednesday 5th October, 9pm
Fringe Club, North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne

Join the Facebook Event.

This is a FREE EVENT (yay!) and a very popular one. Last year the room reached capacity before the show even got underway, so head in nice and early to grab your spot. The jokes aren't as funny if you're stuck in a queue in the foyer.

The High Court has ruled that Political Asylum this weekend will be hilarious.

Your court appointed lineup:
2011 Piece of Wood award winner Harley Breen
Q&A alumni Stella Young
Ex world racer Mohammed El-Leissy
PLUS Mathew Kenneally, Gerard McCulloch,
Mick Neven, Xavier Toby
and hosted by 2011 Best Newcomer nominee Toby Halligan

Take that, Government!

Sunday 11 September @ 5:30pm
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road, Brunswick
$10/ $5 at the door

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August brings one of the best lineups we've ever wrangled for Political Asylum. Join us for much laughs!

Lineup:
the always amazing Rod Quantock
Poet Laureate Telia Neville
ASRC's Kon Karapanagiotidis
Scienceologist Ben McKenzie
Jon Brooks (Adel)
Dingo & Wolf
James Bramwell
plus Mathew Kenneally
and Scott Abbot as MC (Syd)

5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sunday 14 August
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road, Brunswick
$10 / $5 at the door
Facebook Event

Senator Bob Brown and his Green Lantern Corps imprint their fists of fury on the Australian Senate this week, as we once again head to the Brunswick Green for a big show of topical political laughs.


Your fun-filled lineup of comedians:
Toby Halligan (MC)
Daniel Hall
Stella Young
Mick Neven
Gerard McCulloch
plus 2011 Raw Comedy Winner Dayne Rathbone
and the amazing Damian Callinan!


Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=244613165549324


Sunday 10th July, 5:30pm
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road, Brunswick
$10 / $5 at the door

Join us this Sunday at the Brunswick Green, as a fabulous cackle of comedians deliver their latest topical gags, fresh from brain to stage, for your listening pleasure. Included in the lineup are a Best Newcomer nominee from this year's comedy festival, a multiple former Barry Award nominee and Critics Choice winner, a former Fringe Festival Best Comedy winner, and (drum roll) one half of the only funny contestant team from The Amazing Race Australia. Beat that!

Lineup:
Rod Quantock
Kate McLennan
Asher Treleaven
Mathew Kenneally
Mohammed "Mo" El-Leissy
Toby Halligan
And all the way from Sydney, your host, the fantastic Scott Abbot

Sunday 12 June @ 5:30pm

Comedy Festival may be over, but Political Asylum rolls onwards with topical gags aplenty this Sunday afternoon at The Brunswick Green. Expect humorous critiques of two highly overrated institutions that have seen leadership movement in recent days: the British monarchy and al-Qaeda. Fun times!

Note: early winter start time of 5:30pm

Political Asylum
Sunday 8th May @5:30pm
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road, Brunswick

Lineup:
Jon Brooks (MC)
Stella Young
Simon Taylor
Ben McKenzie
Dave Bushell
Jack Druce
Tommy Little


Facebook event here.

MICF WRAP UP
- Over 200 people attended Political Asylum: Comedy Caucus 2011 at the comedy festival, and it went VERY WELL. Read the smashing reviews here and here.
- Mathew Kenneally, Fear of a Brown Planet, Ben McKenzie, Scott Abbot and Toby Halligan all survived their seasons intact, with strong crowds and almost uniformly brilliant reviews.
- Toby Halligan picked up a BEST NEWCOMER nomination for his debut solo effort. Congratulations Toby!

FEAR OF A BROWN PLANET THIS FRIDAY NIGHT
Whatever you thought you were doing tomorrow night, cancel it, and get on down to Prahran for the DVD filming of a BEST OF BROWN PLANET special. All their best material, going right back to their 2008 debut, now packed together into one amazing show. There are two filmings, at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. All the details are here.

NEXT GIG AT THE GREEN
Political Asylum's next monthly gig is Sunday 8th May at the Brunswick Green, at the winter friendly time of 5.30pm. Full lineup details coming soon.

Hey everybody!

I hope you're ready for a big April, as the crew at Political Asylum are revved up to deliver a sensational month of laughs as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 2nd - POLITICAL ASYLUM: COMEDY CAUCUS 2011
This is our annual showcase event featuring our absolute best new material. Last year's show was a sellout and a blast of a night. This year we have a bigger venue and an even bigger lineup.
Featuring: WIL ANDERSON, ROD QUANTOCK, AAMER RAHMAN, NAZEEM HUSSAIN, COURTENEY HOCKING, JON BROOKS, SCOTT ABBOT, TOBY HALLIGAN and MATHEW KENNEALLY (MC).

Date: Saturday 2nd April
Time: 11pm (90 minute show)
Location: Supper Room, Melbourne Town Hall, cnr Swanston and Collins Sts, Melbourne CBD
Cost: $25 Full, $20 Conc.
Bookings: www.comedyfestival.com.au, Ph: 1300 660 013


And don't forget to schedule yourself to see Political Asylum's regular performers do their own shows at the festival, starting this Thursday and running until April 24th:
Ben McKenzie's Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour
Fear of a Brown Planet Attacks
Mathew Kenneally and the Great Escape
Scott Abbot - Democracy: not angry, just disappointed
Toby Halligan - Electile Dysfunction

Lots of great comedy for you this weekend - if anything, come on down just to see the fabulous Dayne Rathbone, who moonlighted with Political Asylum last year on our election tour of Canberra and brought the house down with his on stage antics.

Sunday 13 March, 7:30pm
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road, Brunswick


Lineup:
Scott Abbot
Dayne Rathbone
Mohamed El-Leissy
Catherine Hall
WATSON (Adam and Tegan)
Ronny Chieng
Mathew Kenneally
Toby Halligan (MC)

P.S. Ticket sales are slowly ticking over for our Comfest special on April 2nd at the Melb. Town Hall. And keep your ears tuned for news of a special guest performer... Last year we sold out at ComFest so think about locking this one in. http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2011/season/shows/political-asylum-comedy-caucus-2011

Entry is $10/$5 at the door.

BIG show this weekend at Political Asylum. Much funny business to discuss.

And we have a bitchin' lineup for you, including one scienceologist, one 3-time Barry Award nominee, a swag of TV performers and writers, and even a 2011 OAM recipient. What more could you ask for!

Lineup:
Mathew Kenneallly 
Kate McLennan
Gerard McCulloch
Ben McKenzie
Toby Halligan
Kon Karapanagiotidis
and MC Courteney Hocking


Sunday 13 February @ 7:30pm
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road, Brunswick

Entry: $10/$5


Facebook event here.

See you there!


P.S. Political Asylum's Comedy Festival Special is now open for advance sales! More details coming soon, but it's gonna be big, people! Saturday April 2nd at the Melbourne Town Hall. Last year was a sellout, so mark it in your calendar forthwith!

2011 gets off to a massive start this weekend at The Brunswick Green as Political Asylum returns for our first show of the new year. We've invited along the barmy army as cheer support - the England cricket team clearly don't need their help anymore.

7:30pm, Sunday 9 January
The Brunswick Green
313 Sydney Road, Brunswick
$10 / $5 at the door

Lineup:
Rod Quantock
Mathew Kenneally
Gerard McCulloch
Adam Vincent
Catherine Hall
Toby Halligan
plus
Watson, featuring Adam McKenzie and Tegan Higginbotham
and
MC Scott Abbot (Syd)

Join us for laughs and beers during the show, and then more laughs and beers in the beer garden after the show. Summer - what a brilliant invention!

See you there,

Simon Barber, Producer