This week we highlight graduate and comedy enigma, Arwin Kraze. Arwin is a multi-disciplinary artist, with skills spanning painting, music and twenty years ago, stand-up comedy. It was comedy that he wanted to return to, but through his own admission, lacked the confidence and discipline of his former, younger self. That’s where the Hard Knock Knocks comedy school played it’s …
Three alumni of the Hard Knock Knocks comedy school have beaten close to a thousand amateur comedians to compete in the National Raw Comedy final at the Melbourne Town Hall on April 14, 2024. The three were chosen alongside nine others selected from all of Australia’s States and Territories, making up the final 12. What’s incredible is the speed at …
This week we highlight graduate James Pendrith James attended the Hard Knock Knocks Comedy School in February 2024, flying down from Brisbane to attend the five night course. He had dabbled in open mic comedy a couple of times, and had a goal of polishing his performance with the help of coaching, and performing to a big crowd. He got …
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) is the largest stand-alone comedy festival in the world, and the second-largest international comedy festival on the planet. Typically running for four weeks from March through April, it plays host to thousands of the best local and international comedians. A good chunk of those comedians are alumni from our very own Hard Knock Knocks …
