Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  By far the loosest, most fun episode so far for 2023. Someone was late, a lot of chocolate was consumed, there's chat about sharks then whale noises start. Amongst all of that there are some great stories and also, a bit of chat around reviews and why they don't really matter anymore.  Grab tickets to the shows! Ivan Aristeguieta - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/ivan-aristeguieta Kirsty Webeck - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/kirsty-webeck Heath Franklin - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/heath-franklin Frankie McNair - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/an-intimate-evening-with-tabatha-booth

Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  Have you come across Vegeta? As in the delicious stock not the Dragon Ball character. Do you know how to pronounce it? If not, you'll learn how in this episode plus hear about Grandma's telling dirty jokes. Speaking of dirty, what is it like for comics to perform saucy content in front of family members. Grab tickets to the shows! Suren Jayemanne - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/suren-jayemanne Bianka Islmailovski - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/like-godzilla Bianka Islmailovski & Maryellen - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/open-bike

Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  If you're a huge fan of comedy, you'll love hearing about Edinburgh Fringe and the documentary Aidan made while there. They also chat about how great the diverse line up shows are at MICF this year as well how it might sound good to perform in a stadium when in actual fact it's not.  Grab tickets to the shows! Aidan Jone - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/the-morning-after Steph Broadbridge - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/ignatia Amna Bee in Brown Women Comedy - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/brown-women-comedy

Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  Team Effort with Ed Kavalee, Tony Martin, Ash Williams and Lehmo has been running for 8 years and has over 2 million downloads. Now they’re getting ready to welcome a cavalcade of comedy superstar for a staged reading of their comedy screenplay: The Effort: The Movie Live. While Ed tells SMC all about it, who also shares some great tips and advice for anyone else writing comedy – so this is an episode not to miss. Grab tickets to Team Effort with Ed Kavalee, Tony Martin, Ash Williams and Lehmo https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/team-effort

Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  This episode covers a lot: death books (and finding out what a death book is), love of sushi, how to look after yourself (or not), the dark web and also turns into the Sam Campbell appreciation society. Grab tickets to the shows! Lizzy Hoo https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/woo-hoo Lewis Garnham https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/lewis-garnham Blake Freeman https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/blake-freeman

Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  If you've seen Mike Goldstein on channel 9's show The Hundred, you might think he's a nice guy but you'll hear his real side in this. We strangely learn about pilonidal cysts and how close these three comics really are (it's REAL close).  Check out the links to their shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival below.  Ben Knight - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/the-parent-teacher-interview Mike Goldstein - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/mike-goldstein Nick Capper -https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/nick-capper-hold-me-closer-tiny-cancer Nick Capper & Brett Blake - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/brew-dudes-froth-zone

MIC DROP: David Quirk, Nicolette Minster, Steph Teitelbaum and Steve Hili (UK) Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  Ever Googled yourself? Of course you have! The comedians chat about what you find during that exercise. Also they solve the age old question "should family members get free tickets to the show?".  Check out the links to their shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival below.  David Quirk - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/cobra Nicolette Minster - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/nicolette-minsters-net-worthSteph Teitelbaum - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/steph-teitelbaum Steve Hili - https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/steve-hili-the-sexy-environmentalist

Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Presenter Sarah Maree Cameron.  In this episode with Shad Wicka, Peter James and Joe White we hear about meeting your comedy heroes, how to disarm a racist heckler, pushing through a gig with pokie machines going off next to you and why Brisbane is producing some of the best comics in the country. Shad Wicka – How I Almost Killed a Guy https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/how-i-almost-killed-a-guy Peter James – It’s All Happening https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/it-s-all-happening Joe White – Ethiopian and Still Not Hungry https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/joe-white-ethiopian-still-not-hungry-2023 Shad Wicka and Peter James – Shad and Pete Save The World! https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/shad-pete-save-the-world

Triple M's Mic Drop returns for 2023! Celebrating great acts from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in their own voice, with plenty of laughs along the way, all hosted by Stand-Up Comic and Triple M Announcer Sarah Maree Cameron. Joining SMC for the first episode of this year's Mic Drop is Andrew Hansen, fresh from winning the weekly 'Best Comedy' award at Adelaide Fringe (although he's not happy about it), James Clark who rocked up straight from the bank plus Sam and Rosie who educated us on a lot and right at the end of the episode, gift us with a new term to use in life. Andrew Hansen "Andrew Hansen is Cheap" just got the weekly "Best Comedy" award at Adelaide Fringe https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/andrew-hansen-is-cheap ​ James Clark "Comedy for Corporates, Work-Life Balance is for Losers"  https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/comedy-for-corporates-work-life-balance-is-for-losers Tuck Shop Ladies with "In Real Life" ​folk festival darlings, they are making their comedy festival debut after everyone telling them how hilarious they are! https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/in-real-life-tuck-shop-ladies

One of Australia's comedic gems, Felicity Ward, is back in Australia to do a handful of shows of "She's Back Baby!" before jetting back to London. Sarah Maree got to chat to her about life in the UK and got a peak into what she'll be writing about in her next show. Hint: It's about renovations gone wrong. 

Our last episode of Mic Drop stand-up comedy podcast for 2022 comes with a language warning with Brett Blake, Shad Wicker and Pete James - But it's all in context, especially for the story of how Shad lost his job. Brett Blake discovers who Denis Walter is and Pete reveals that he had the best job in radio once but not in the department that you'd expect. Just some of the fun the boys had with Triple M's own stand-up comic Sarah Maree Cameron Thanks for listening to Mic Drop throughout the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2022.

Triple M's Mic Drop continues with three of the smartest brains in stand-up comedy. Andrew Hanson, Harley Breen and Aidan Jones. As we reach the last weekend of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sarah Maree Cameron chats with Andrew, Harley and Aidan about their stand-up and some of the hilarious experiences from their careers to date. This chat has it all; Politics, living in squats, the real story of Burke and Wills (it's wild) and stealing street signs. Strap in!

If you've ever wanted to get into comedy, this episode of Mic Drop with Jordan Barr, Scout Boxall and Aurelia St Clair is for you. During this year's Melbourne Comedy Festival, three stars of stand-up catch up with Triple M's own comedian Sarah Maree Cameron for the latest episode of Mic Drop. Jordan, Scout and Aurelia share with Sarah Maree how they got started in the scene and the differences between starting in comedy 'traditionally' and Aurelia being a TikTok star, which brings a different audience and different demands on creating and serving funny content. 

Superstars David O'Doherty (IRE), Mark Watson (ENG) and Carl Donnelly (ENG) are our British and Irish Lions on the latest episode of Mic Drop - Triple M's inside podcast about the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Sarah Maree Cameron. In this episode we hear about Mark Watson’s gig in a supermarket car park, David O'Doherty performing for a pair of shoes as payment, and Carl Donnelly gaining easy access to Australia during the pandemic because he’s married to an Aussie. These are three guys who have done enough Zoom Gigs for now and couldn't be happier to be here in Melbourne IRL and doing stand-up comedy to actual human beings again.

Comedians Ben Lomas and Sonia Di Iorio join Sarah Maree to chat about the comedy festival but end up talking about snot blocks (turns out Ben doesn’t like ‘em), finance and real estate and how one of their friends was tricked into buying a house.

Good friends of Sarah Maree, Maren Whittaker, Samuel Gebreselassie and Tim Young join her to chat about how tough it was to bounce back after MICF was cancelled in 2020, and discover who the champion-napper of the group and what life is like going to clubs when you're over 40.

There has been a big theme of gratitude with performers at MICF this year and it continues in this episode with Ivan Aristeguieta, Kirsty Webeck and Ella Lawry from sketch-comedy group Big Big Big when they join Sarah Maree. If you need ideas for cheap uni food - this podcast has got you. Also butt flaps becomes a big theme in this, too. You read right... butt flaps. 

Nick Cody joins Sarah Maree Cameron to chat about his show 'Classique Cody', his love of Luke Heggie plus they touch on defibrillators and discuss how much Werribee has changed since they were both teenagers. 

Melbourne International Comedy Festival has kicked off and Sarah Maree is catching up with a bunch of different performers across the festival. For the first episode she is joined by RAW Comedy winner from 2021, Prue Blake and from the UK the wickedly funny Fern Brady where they chat about Zoom gigs and quickly derail to MAFS Australia after Fern confesses to sliding into the DMs of one the guys. 

Triple M's Sarah Maree, herself a gigging stand-up comic, speaks to Aussie comedian Nick Capper whose world was rocked this year when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. As he came to terms with his illness, Nick decided he could turn his journey into a show.  As Movember wraps up, the work of reminding men to look after themselves never stops. Sarah Maree chats with comedian Nick Capper who was diagnosed with testicular cancer this year and has been sharing his story in his comedy sets around Australian - and funnily enough has another comedian to thank for getting what he thought was a minor issue checked out. 

So Soiree Festival is coming to Stonnington on 2–12 December, featuring eight days of performances across comedy, cabaret and circus, celebrating the local art scene. Presented in partnership with Melbourne Fringe, So Soiree takes place at the well-travelled intimate pop-up performance venue, The Parlour, located in Grattan Gardens, as well as at Chapel off Chapel. Some festival highlights are Dave Thornton, Cal Wilson, Wine Bluffs and Josh Glanc. Triple M's Sarah Maree had a chat with Dave about his show and he even drops a little nugget of a book that he’s writing. 

This week is Coward Punch Awareness Week. Aussie boxer Danny Green joined Sarah Maree to discuss the devastating impact the dog act has. Since 2000, 172 Australians have lost their lives to coward punches. CowardPunchCampaign.com is on a mission to eliminate the coward punch from our society and to save lives, starting with raising awareness right now. As Danny says "It's just unacceptable. And we're tired of it."

Rounding off this season of Mic Drop with Sarah Maree Cameron,  2021 Golden Gibbo nominee Ben Knight plus his mates Nick Capper and Mike Goldstein spoke a little about their shows and a lot about random things including nipple tassels, only fans and tasers. 

Each year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival hand-pick a bunch of comedians you need to fall in love with now before they're huge. Zoner alumni include Hannah Gadsby, Ronny Chieng, Josh Thomas, Celia Paquola, Tom Ballard, Sammy J, Aaron Chen, Becky Lucus... the list goes on. Three of this year's Comedy Zoners Tor Snyder, Floyd Alexander-Hunt and Andrew Portelli join Sarah Maree to chat about everything from the festival to IVF.

Rusty and John, aka 'Scared Weird Little Guys' announced with Sarah Maree that they're coming back to do their first show in Melbourne for the first time in 10 years! They also spoke about how they'd go in an apocalypse and how good a cup of tea after a gig is PLUS sang a few of their classics.

The Stevenson Experience aka Benjamine and James aka Beej and Jimmy show us what twins bicker over in this podcast with Sarah Maree. There's plenty of chat about MICF, a podcast that they used to do and one they want to do but if there's one reason to listen to this - it's just hear these two throw each other under a bus

Mates Simon Taylor and Jacqueline Mifsud chat with Sarah Maree about some of the weird gigs they've been doing recently like Silent Comedy, Jacqueline reveals she may need some help on Instagram and Simon shares why it's so fun getting to be part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 

After adding extra shows at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lawrence "Moonman" Mooney drops by to chat with Sarah Maree about going on stage as sober as you can, not being too conservative with your material and there's some talk of a bromance with fellow comedian Ivan Aristeguieta. 

Now that covid restrictions have been lifted, there's no stopping the crowd interaction between comedians Prue Blake, Donna Collins and Sashi Perera, who are part of the line-up for The Breast of the Fest. The ladies chat with Sarah Maree about pashing, there some humble brags about making it through for RAW comedy in previous years plus the perks of freebies being a comedian. 

Joining Sarah Maree in the studio today is singer-songwriter and comedian Angus Gill and much-loved member of the comedy scene, Bev Killick. The guys chat about the show they're doing together and how much of a medical marvel Bev is after suffering a stroke while on stage during the first week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 

Amos Gill and Daniel Muggleton dropped by to chat about the festival with Sarah Maree but it ended up being a safe space for Amos to share his grievances with some audiences, Daniel got to boast about wearing tracksuits and somehow the conversation transitioned to talking about architecture. 

Good friend of Triple M, Lehmo drops by the studio to chat with Sarah Maree about comedy after covid and how his show at the Melbourne International Comedy festival is a carthartic vent-sesh about what we went through last year. 

Melbourne International Comedy Festival is back and some of our favourite comics join Triple M's Sarah Maree to chat about life, love and the universe... actually they're coming into the plug their shows and some of their mate's. Alex Ward, Tim Hewitt and Brett Blake dropped by to chat about how artists can't flyer this year but they're working around it plus there's talk of a motorbike being brought into one of their shows.  Get details on where to see them at comedyfestival.com.au ____ Links to their shows: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/alex-ward  https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/brett-blake https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/in-conversation-with-hewy-taunts  

Australia’s national youth broadcaster tried their best to dominate the airwaves over the weekend with their annual Hottest 100 countdown but we bested them with our very own special countdown. Who could forget this iconic moment from Triple M’s Sickest 100?

We hope you're ready for a mouthwatering list of Simpsons episodes! Rudi, Will and Ethan talk you through 25-21 of Triple M's definitive list of the top 25 Simpsons episodes, including the Steamed Hams scene which gave birth to a million memes, a visit to the Big Apple and one of the best musical numbers in the series.

Sam and Will break down all of the stupid news from the week!  South Korean Soccer League Accidentally Uses Sex Dolls To Fill Stands, Ron Jeremy Fights To Save Tree Man Arrested For Exercising With A Sword

Woman Caught Masturbating In IKEA Bloke Forced To Buy Fiancé THREE Wedding Rings Famous Rockstar Injures Butt Gardening

Triple M's Sarah Maree, Rudi and Matt share our top tips for the best sports podcasts going around. Footy, soccer, cricket, fishing, motor racing, we've got the lot covered.