Brynley Stent - Bird of the Year

Brynley promised herself she'd try and write a regular hour of stand-up this year, but I'm so glad that she gave in to her theatre kid instincts instead.

With commanding monologues, painfully accurate character explorations, and inch-perfect physical comedy, Bryn is an entire sketch troupe confined within a single goofy entity.

I audibly gasped when she revealed that this was her first time ever performing the completed show, as it felt like it was already second nature for her to bite through the skin of a raw pineapple, mime spoon-feeding the audience for five unbroken minutes, and replace all the words of Akon’s “Smack That” with “Bat Facts”.

But don’t worry, she’s still got plenty of normal anecdotes about topics we can all relate to!  Like the best strategies for cock-blocking your parents, which Yowie should be considered the most fuckable, and what to do when your drama teacher locks you and your blindfolded classmates in a room and forces you to forage for punnets of blueberries.

This is only her second time in Melbourne, but please go see her a hundred times so she keeps coming back!