The Sands Comedy | Featuring David Smiedt

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  David Smiedt

  David Smiedt has been delighting audiences around the country and overseas with his brand of warm inclusive comedy for over 12 years and is now one of Australia's finest comedian MC's and corporate performers. David is a regular on television shows such as Mornings with Kerri-Ann Sunrise, The Today Show, Ready Steady Cook and having appeared on Stand Up Australia he is also the author of six humorous books. He also is a writer for a wide range of magazines including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Women's Health, Body & Soul and Vogue where he specialises in a humorous take on style health trends and celebrity profiles. Aside from being the current grooming editor for GQ magazine he is the only journalist in Australian publishing history to be in concurrent issues of lads-mag Ralph and Your Garden. David opened for Joan Rivers during her Sydney theatre run Mark Watson's Sydney festival season and Martin Short's Melbourne Crown Casino performances.

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  Akila

  Akila Amaratunga, better known mononymously as Akila, is a stand-up comedian and social media personality. Like the rest of the OG Crew, he is former cast member of Yeah Mad, a YouTube commedy channel.

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  Divya Vaman

  The first time Divya made people laugh was when she was just 4 years old. She wasn’t trying to be funny but was explaining her parents’ contrasting parenting styles: “When I scream at Mum, she locks me in a room. When I scream at Dad, he locks himself in a room.” She was simply telling it as she saw it. During the pandemic, Divya started writing jokes to entertain herself, and to save herself from boredom. Inspired by shows like Seinfeld, Friends and Frasier, she just wanted to see if she could even make herself laugh. Her friends encouraged her to try comedy once the world opened up again. And for better or worse, she hasn’t been able to get off the stage. © copyright A Laugh And A Half By day, Divya uses her law degree in her office job, but by night, she tells jokes about millennial life, her eccentric Indian family, being on a Hindu matrimonial website, why she runs away from today’s “run clubs” and freezing her eggs. She has found being Indian helps with comedy because plenty of material is handed to her just from the bizarre comments from her “interesting” relatives. She also enjoys acting and may have been spotted as Matt Okine’s masseuse in his Stan series ‘The Other Guy’, or as a forensic scientist showing a cigarette butt to internationally acclaimed actress Rachel Griffiths in ‘Dead Lucky’, now streaming on Netflix. Her old YouTube sketches are available on her channel, and since starting stand-up, she has no plans to slow down. She can’t wait to entertain with her amusing and relatable experiences. And just like that 4-year-old girl, she cannot wait to tell you her honest observations!

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  Marty Bright

  Marty Bright has taken his individual brand of physical and observational hybrid comedy across Australia and the World and has established himself on the professional scene as a headliner and MC that can take on any audience from a music festivals in the woods, to a sold out theatre. He has been part of Sydney Comedy Festival: Breakout Showcase, FRESH and Sydney Comedy Festival Roadshow. The show he performed in for Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016 received 4 stars. Most recently Bright performed across North America, appearing at LA’s Comedy Store, New York’s Carolines Comedy Club and the Montreal Comedy Works.

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