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Class Clowns is Melbourne International Comedy Festival 's development program for young people around the country.
After a competition has been held across the country, heats, semi-finals and then finals are run in each Australian state and territory , with the winners of the state finals competing in the Grand Final in Melbourne . The Grand Final is held during Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the Forum Theatre (previously held at Melbourne Town Hall and Malthouse Theatre ).
Professional comedians who have hosted the grand final include Tom Gleeson and Nath Valvo . Special guest comedians perform a headline set; in the past, these have included Peter Helliar , Tripod , Ross Noble , and Judith Lucy .
Notable comedians who have performed as entrants in Class Clowns include, Josh Thomas , Tom Ballard , Joel Creasey , Rhys Nicholson , Aaron Chen , Velvet Winter, Lauren Duong, Mia Timpano , and Imaan Hadchiti .
Class Clowns National Grand Finalists [ edit ]
Year
Winner
Other
2000
Fat Chicks Bite Back (Jess Shanahan, Hayley Robinson, Paul Saunders & Adam Weller)
Kane Baltetsch
The Shakespeares
Shane Jameson
Popsticles
Michael Connell (2nd Place)
Shane Stackpool
Josh Gurgiel
Danny McGinlay (3rd Place)
Michael Williams & Steven Watts
2001
Paul Saunders
2002
Goibon Hanastende
2003
Fred Sterer
Fat & Skinny (Ric Bourke & Travis Tyszkiewicz)
Scenes from a Supermarket (Kelly Bush, Jauren Jiear, David Messina, Marty Thomas and Nick Valois)
Arthur (Jordan Fogel)
Crispy Strip (Joseph McCarthy) Scotch Finger (Jouline Winter & Elise Dorian)
Short Suited (Tully Hansen & Evan Dowling)
James Meehan
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machine (Jeremy Laing and Scott Winterton)
Rebecca Gomo
Technically Challenged (Stefan Popovic & James Robertson)
Andrew Ryan
The Mike & Stan Trio (Tristan Lintern, Geoff Stone, Kye Elliot-Moyle)
2004
Stephen Brooks
Fraternity
Amelia Hester
Poison Palace
Dylan Cole
Story Sage
Tommy Starbucks (runner-up)
The Suicide Elevens
Lachlan Murphy
Catchy & Anna
Stirling Sam
News on Fire
2005
Imaan Hadchiti and Tobey Duncan
2006
Adam Knox
Luke Middleton
Emalee Mielsels
'A Lesson In Morals' (Chris Morecroft & Andrew Readman)
Mitch Lia
Dankee Tinyee
David Bakker
Jack Druce (runner-up)
Hannah Marlarksi (runner-up)
Stuart Harper
Dylan Cole (runner-up)
M to the Acbeth (Ben Stevenson, James Stevenson & Michael Byrne)
2007
'H2WOAH!' Jacob Machin and James Seamark
Serenade (James Stevenson, Ben Stevenson & Michael Byrne
Theo Harper
Maiji Hilakari (runner-up)
Heidi Stoll
Down n Dirty (Caderyn Gotiji & Lloyd Ninnies)
The Doners (Shane Halliwell, Gavin Hallam & Glenn Keane)
Sean Bailey
Finding Emo (Tim Hurd & Ruby Grant) (runners-up)
Lisa Mack
Daniel Nour
2008
Tom John
Ella Reed
Catherine Hall
Mitch and Max
2009
Neel Kolhatkar
Emmett Redding
Leon Osborn
Riti Rivita
Dominique Neal
Callum Stewart
Alexandra Gordon
Lock & Stu
William Brennan
The Red & The Black
Zach Drury
Jaelen Hurst
2010
Matthew Ford
Ned Hirst (runner-up)
Try Harder (Keiran Browne, Hayden Browne & Luke Carroll)
Mitch McCann
May Kavelin
Josh Roach
Felicity Purdue
Annie Louey
Sausage Fest (Alessandro Pennini, Lucy Pellegrino & Rohan Bruce)
Tasmin McFarlane and Polly Maudlin (runner-up)
Scratch Me Happy (runner-up)
2011
Tom Matthews
Velvet Winter (runner-up)
Stephen Power
Elaine Watkins (runner-up)
Ned Hirst
Patrick Collins
Madeline Lidbetter
Rowan Thambar
2012
Aaron Chen
Laura Stewart
Dan Tidswell
Alistair Baldwin
Jordan Sharp
Gianluca Noble & Jonathan Darby
Scarlett Groom-Ransom
Matt Wallace (runner-up)
Elyza Day (runner-up)
Blake Everett
Josh McKenzie
Amy Spurgeon & Niki Hrstic (ACT)
2013
James Warren
Edwards Gates
Holly Wulf
Daniel Borghesi
Freddie Young
Lachie Clarke (runner-up)
Luna De Lara
Emma Hogan (runner-up)
Rory Gillen
Sam Perry (runner-up)
Michelle Meng
Esther Doherty
James Warren
Brandon Boccola
2014
Gergor Tarrant
Elijah Fragomeni
Duke Howard
James Lleonart
Mabita Makwaza (runner-up)
Rachel Durand
Sunny & Paloma
Dan Hirst
Grace Bruxner (runner-up)
Chyna Hayden
Miles Glaspole
Angela Prendergast
Jack Keenan (runner-up)
2015
Will McKenna
Alex Lowes
Jacob Mackenzie
Jason Sarossy
Ethan Cavanagh
Marie Claire Ridgeway & Alice Noonan
Ryan Dixon
Jackson M. Canny
Harley Davidson (runner-up)
Peter James
Douglas Lee
Zoe Christiansen
Caleb Linder (runner-up)
2016
Lauren Duong
Ashley Dunn
Chance Dixon (runner-up)
Danica Jenner
Gregg Andrews
Jack Busuttil & Patrick Kennedy
Jackson Canny
Lillian Gonzalez & Mehad Al-Bijawi
Morgan Carter (runner-up)
Morgan Furst
Will Gibb
Yvette Dragar-Pizzolato
2017
Daniel Reeve
Alana Stewart
Anzel Van-Niekerk
Bhavika Sharma
Bryn Inglis (runner-up)
Callum Fisher
Demetri Spyropoulos
Jaxon Mitchell and Jamie Roberts
Kate Wilkins
Lana Pigeon
Mireille-Francoise Renzaho
Sirak Keeghan
Solomon Lancini
Vincent Meyrick (runner-up)
2018
Liam Adam, Carlin Carruth
& Kyle Bennett as 'Awkward'
Casey Clark
Colleen Mukonorwi
Daniel Caldicott
Dusty Diddle as 'J-Dog' (runner-up)
Fahran Anwar
Jett Bond
Laura Magao
Luna Grzan
Lynden Hughes
Nicholas Doring (runner-up)
Nina Cowley-Moushino & Shiloh Rea (runners-up)
Sammy Elgarhey
Tom Newton
2019
Patti Fawcett
Ben Depoma, Cyrus James-Hankin and Soren Pryor as 'whose my parents? (runners-up)
Billie Hoban
Ethan Gallagher
Isaac Loom
Jack Soden
JD Talty
Keaton Jones
Luke DeBuhr
Madi Garcia-McShane
Nic Doring v
Rerose Roro
Samuel Allison
Tyler Howie
2020
NA due to COVID19
NA due to COVID19
2021
Dhruv Rao
Angus Pickering
Emma Armitage-Ho
Ethan Gallagher
Ethan Kirk
Jai Uhlmann (runner-up)
John Wing
Kate Snashall
Louis Prandolini
Mali Hawke
Nicholas Champion
Sophia Marosszeky (runner-up)
Stella Hall
2022
Erin Almeida
Arikki Soo (runner-up)
Emma Armitage-Ho
Emma Hughes
Hardy Croucher (runner-up)
Hugo Foxworthy
Rex Forsyth
Richmond Johnson
Shayla Keane (runner-up)
Tamsin Savery
Williem Hoffmann
Zeki Jeffreys
2023
Kate Kindleysides
