Claire Hooper

It's Grand Final Day and in a suburban police station about to be replaced by an AI 'Terminal', the two remaining cops (Nicolette Minster and Ray O'Leary) are tasked with babysitting a drug dealer for 24 hours.

Denise Scott hosts the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala featuring a stellar lineup including Claire Hooper, Josh Thomas, Urzila Carlson, Sammy J, Matt Okine, Sashi Perera, Takashi Wakasugi, Ray O'Leary, Nath Valvo and more.

Kids get praise for doing anything remotely well. But if I told you I tied my own shoelaces this morning, you’d just give me a worried look. Claire Hooper is done with being an adult - pretending to have fun at ten pin bowling, pretending to enjoy her children’s concert performances, pretending she’s not desperate for her father’s love. And she’s written a whole show just to get her dad to tell her that he’s SO PROUD. Seen on Have You Been Paying Attention? and host of podcast I’m The Worst with Claire Hooper.

Hosted by Adam Hills, the 2015 Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow will also feature; Alex Edelman, Andrew Saunders, Cal Wilson, Chris Taylor & Andrew Hansen, Claire Hooper, Dane Baptiste, Greg Behrendt, Jen Kirkman, Jimeoin, Katherine Ryan, Luke McGregor, Mark Watson, Milton Jones, Nick Cody, Nina Conti, Sam Simmons, Sarah Kendall, Sara Pascoe, Steen Raskopoulos, Stephen K Amos, Tom Gleeson, Tripod, Wil Anderson and Wyatt Cenac.

As musical theatre superstar Valerie Broom juggles her career, motherhood, and an ambitious understudy, the arrival of live-in nanny Grace disrupts their family dynamics, exposing a disturbing secret.

Kids get praise for doing anything remotely well. But if I told you I tied my own shoelaces this morning, you’d just give me a worried look. Claire Hooper is done with being an adult - pretending to have fun at ten pin bowling, pretending to enjoy her children’s concert performances, pretending she’s not desperate for her father’s love. And she’s written a whole show just to get her dad to tell her that he’s SO PROUD. Seen on Have You Been Paying Attention? and host of podcast I’m The Worst with Claire Hooper.

With impeccable timing and fantastic observational humour. Bron Lewis talks about her family, attacking magpies, her hometown. A recurring theme is avoidance and how it, as a coping with life mechanism, is not perhaps a good choice. Better perhaps to aspire to be the 1980’s Chico Roll lady.