Australian Comedy Review

Melissa Crotty is a Melbourne stand up comedian who has performed all over the Melbourne Comedy circuit since 2000. She has written and performed in sketch comedy and improvisation ensembles in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Midsummer and Melbourne Fringe Festivals. Melissa has also appeared on C31’s The Comic Box and Champagne Comedy and at various fundraiser events.

Melissa will perform in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with her successful Melbourne Fringe show, Melissa Crotty In A Ship of Fools (previously know as A Ship of Fools).

“An enlightening and different sort of comedy show, A Ship of fools is cleverly written and performed by Melissa Crotty, who knows how to craft humour; the act was beyond brilliant” Lisa Pearce, Expressmedia.

Melissa Crotty In A Ship Of Fools is one woman’s comic journey, based on her experiences with hippy camps public nudity, fundamentalist religion, dining with dumpster divers and the political elite and a 10 day vow of silence, in a quest to find hope and a cool head in a warming world.