Dreams are like bubbles - eventually they burst and they don't pay the bills.

Former Tasmanian-Canadian comedian Catherine McClintock brings her latest sold-out Melbourne International Comedy Festival show to Hobart for one night only.

BURST is stand-up comedy from a constantly disappointed yet incurable optimist. Catherine delivers a cracking hour about how our lives don't work out how we plan them. She blames Oprah.

Catherine McClintock wears many hats on her objectively giant head: comedian, nurse, mum, Canadian, body acceptance and chronic illness advocate. She has a weird autoimmune disease nobody can pronounce called dermatomyositis.

Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, Catherine got her comedy start in Tasmania. A two-time RAW Comedy State Finalist and now based in Melbourne, Catherine has performed throughout Australia supporting acts such as Claire Hooper, Judith Lucy and Ivan Aristeguieta. She has taken her silly with substance style of comedy to Canada and performed at The World-Famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles.