John-Luke Roberts

Cult favourite JLR returns to Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a brand-new stand-up show. 

What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking, is his most stand-uppy stand-up show yet (although it’s also got poems and songs in it). A four-laughs-a-minute (which is pretty good actually) meditation on mortality, human complexity and maybe also JL’s bulletproof theory that the UK’s (and Australia’s, come to think of it) monarch should be replaced with a tortoise as head of state. 

Winner of the Besties Edinburgh Fringe Legend Award and one of The Telegraph’s (UK) 50 funniest comedians of the 21st Century. The Guardian have also said nice things about him and, tbh, he’s much more in their wheelhouse politically. 

★★★★★ Fest

★★★★ The Telegraph (UK)

★★★★ The Times (UK)

★★★★ The Guardian