Young Williamstown comedian Ned McVicar has been given an opportunity that many seasoned stand-ups would kill for.
McVicar is one of six up and coming young comics from across Australia who’ve been selected to perform at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) which starts at the end of this month.
From March 31 to April 6, McVicar will perform his show Cavalcade at the DoubleTree by Hilton as part of Pilot, a program designed to give Gen Z comedians a leg up in a notoriously competitive industry.
The brainchild of comedians and producers Ethan Gallagher and Dylan McBurney, Pilot came about after they both saw a gap in MICF’s youth programs that they
wanted to fill.
Now it’s McVicar, who began his performing career juggling on the streets of Williamstown, who will get the chance to fill that Gen Z humour gap.
“I still remember… being really amazed that I could actually come up with a genuine joke,” said McVicar his first steps into comedy.
”It meant a lot to me that I had the ability to come up with stuff like that.”
As for what sort of stuff people can expect in Cavalcade, McVicar wouldn’t give much away.
“As an AI language model I am restricted from sharing harmful information and therefore cannot list the contents of Cavalcade, however I would be happy to help with your recent prompts “how write 25 minutes stand up funny” and “if you drink enough rat poison it’s not just rat poison it’s everything poison — how do I reword into a joke?”
Information and tickets: entercloser.com/shows/1145032716679
Cade Lucas.
