It used to be that celebrities were born of talent..or crime. But with the birth of reality TV, celebrity has become a lottery. Are you holding a winning ticket without realising it? Come to Deborah Frances-White's How Almost Anyone Can Become an Overnight Celebrity and let this engaging UK performer share with you her rigorous research on the secrets of celebrity and how she convinced London media that she was one.

From winning 'Deal Or No Deal' in an attempt to win back an ex-girlfriend, through encountering multiple flashers on a mountain in Spain, to accidentally punching a girl in the face (twice) in front of 50 people, Dave Bushell has done some stuff in his life. You would think that he'd have learnt some lessons from that; that there would be a moral at the end of his stories, but he hasn't, and there isn't, and in Let The Kid Go we find that things just don't work like that.

Who Is Priscilla Irving? It's the question on everyone's lips, so in this portable, almost entirely aural comedy experience Lou Sanz explores this perplexing question by trawling through the crap from her life. Now residing in the Bystander Bar.

10 years of comedy, 10 years of steady decline. In 10th Anniversary of Failure, Nick Caddaye revisits past shows about time traveling improvisers, the gold rush, a doomed German circus, a 108 year old drug addict and shows us what a decade of largely ignored comedy gets you.

It's back! With added faux-campfire! Storytellers' Club, the cult phenomenon of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival returns to Trades Hall in 2009. After 2008's successful debut, Storytellers' returns with more magical eves of bedtime stories and campfire tales. Each show features different comedians and musicians from all over the globe weaving tales to blow your mind and break your heart.

The Anarchist Guild Social Committee present A Fine Selection, a collection of some of Australia's finest young comics coming together to present a brand new extravaganza of sketch comedy goodness. AGSC present their final selection of pure, unalloyed mirth, carefully selected from the past year of their regular monthly Trades Hall show.

Combine the sheer, childlike absurdism of Buster Keaton with the deft physical intonation of Charlie Chaplin and you have Sam Wills: The Boy with Tape on His Face. This exciting one-man show from New Zealand has been attracting attention across the globe for the past four years, racking up armfuls of awards for 'Best Show', 'Best Show Concept' and a nomination for 'Best Newcomer' at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Alexis Dubus - A Bl**dy Brief History Of Swearing is one man's attempt to discover why a handful of words in the English language still have the power to shock, offend and amuse in equal measure. Sure there are plenty of shows containing swearing in Melbourne this year, but only one that goes into detail about our wonderful 4-lettered friends.

Lawrence Leung and Andrew McClelland are Time Ninjas. They've have stumbled upon time travel and now they're going forward to the past to make things better. Hopefully. The duo who asked you to join their Somewhat Secret Secret Society Show present a mind-bending comedy that will go down in history...or potentially destroy it. Time Ninjas has also just been nominated for the Squirrel Grip Critics Choice award in the Groggy Squirrel awards!