Lizzy Hoo – Host of the 2024 Melbourne comedy festival gala. Hailing from Brisbane, based in Sydney and made from local and imported ingredients, Lizzy Hoo is a regular on the Australian comedy circuit. She made the NSW Raw State Finals in 2017 and a year later was invited to perform at Just For Laughs Sydney at the Opera House, which was later aired on Foxtel’s Comedy Central. In 2019, she performed her first solo show Hoo am I? What’s my name? to sold out audiences at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival where she performed two encore show due to overwhelming demand.
Becky Lucas is a writer and stand-up comedian. Becky quickly gained recognition by exploding onto the comedy scene in the 2013 National RAW Comedy finals and since then has been unstoppable. Becky has performed solo shows to sold out crowds across Australia & New Zealand and also overseas as Becky made her Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2018 and the same year went on to perform her solo show live at the Sydney Opera House as part of Just for Laughs Sydney Festival. Becky had another success with her 2019 show Um, Support Me?! rounding off the tour performing alongside some of the biggest names of comedy at the prestigious Just For Laughs Montreal.
“an hour of power” The Age, Melbourne
When she’s not on stage, Becky is all over the small screen. In 2019, Becky made her television debut in the United States of America on Conan O’Briens late-night talk show Conan, which also impressively makes Becky the first female Australian to feature on the show. Previous TV appearances include a much sought after spot on the ABC TV’s 2018/2019 Oxfam Gala and Comedy Up Late (both filmed live at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival), hosting ABC2 and Screen Australia's documentary Big Bad Love, as well as appearances on The Comedy Channels Best of the Sydney Fest, JFL’s The Stand Up Series, ABC’s Fancy Boy, Network 10’s Hughesy We Have A Problem, NZTV 7 Days, Seven Network's Orange is the New Brown, Comedy Centrals Share This (a popular online video series which amassed millions of views) and has been a guest on Seek Treatment, a popular podcast hosted by New York comic Cat Cohen and Pat Regan. In 2020, Becky appeared on the Australian Lockdown Comedy Festival on Stan, Drunk History on Network 10, ABC iView’s Home Alone Tonight hosted by Ray Martin and Amazon Prime’s Last One Laughing with Rebel Wilson.
Door Open 7.30pm
Show starts at 8pm