Comedy with a twist, music, banjo

Anne Edmonds is coming to town wielding her banjo and dark comedic mind to entertain an audience at the Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre for this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow.

Edmonds was a contestant and national finalist for RAW Comedy in 2010 and has since travelled the world performing her stand up performance in front of audiences at festivals such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

She is an up-and-coming talent on the stand-up comedy scene and was even nominated for Best Emerging Comedy Talent at the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Edmonds said the RAW contest was her first stand up comedy experience.

“I had been living in Darwin for a few years doing character comedy, ” she said.

“I came into stand-up quite late, I was 29. I loved the character comedy stuff and loved it but realised any comedian worth their weight had done stand up so I tried it and loved it.”

Edmonds is best known on the comedy scene for her weapon of choice, a banjo which she incorporates into her act.

“I was already playing the banjo as I was living in South Australia and working part time so with the time I had on my hands I started to learn the banjo, ” she said.

“I love writing music and it made its way into the comedy.”

Edmonds has just made her way onto television screens, with her most prominent performance being on ABC’s sketch comedy show Wednesday Night Fever.

“It was in a sketch comedy show filmed in front of a live audience, we had a lot of fun as a cast, ” she said.

“It was my first big TV gig, I had done a little bit on It’s a Date but this was my first significant gig.

“I have heaps of TV ideas which I would love to do, but it’s about balancing my live work with my TV stuff, which can take up a lot of time.”

Edmonds will be performing at the Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre for the Melbourne International Comedy Roadshow on May 30 and 31.