Anthony Lehmann creates show about being a dad at Melbourne International Comedy Festival
IT’S A big thing being a dad. So big Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann has decided to make a show about it at next month’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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BIG thing being a dad.
So big, Anthony Lehmann has decided to make a show about it.
In The Family Lifeboat, at next month’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival (March 29-April 23), the radio star and comic (Utopia, The Project, Have You Being Paying Attention?) will be posing some father-son questions.
“Like ‘Does my baby even know who I am?’,’’ he says. “Or, ‘Can you train a dog to look after a baby?’. My wife and I had our first baby last year. This is a live daddy blog that details the hell and the joy of parenthood.
“More hell than joy.”
The Family Lifeboat is one of 556 shows in the much loved festival.
Claire Hooper also draws on the joys of parenthood in her show Familiar after baby number two last year.
Festival director Susan Provan praised this year’s festival line-up.
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