Melinda Buttle

Melinda Buttle

Mel was a national finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Raw Comedy Competition sponsored by Triple J in 2008. Mel has impressed audiences with her sassy, comedy, lady stories at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival (Debate), The Wild West Comedy Festival in Perth, and the Armidale Women’s Comedy Festival in NSW. Mel was very excited to be invited to perform at the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Industry Showcase. Mel performs regularly all around Brisbane, she can be seen in the  “Josh Thomas Variety Hour” shows at the Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre. Mel is pushing ahead with this comedy caper and sometimes on a Friday afternoon she can be heard on ‘Panel Of Experts’ or debating on ABC Radio 612AM QLD, on Richard Fidler’s program.

Melinda Buttle – International Woman of Mystery.

 
Name: Mel Buttle
 
Age: 27
 
Years in Biz: 4
 
Club started in: Laugh Resort Comedy Club at the Brass Monkey (Perth), I did an open mic spot about tampons to a bunch of Miners from Kalgoorlie
 
Best gig ever: Performing to a sold out crowd at the Melbourne Town Hall in the National Raw Comedy Final for ABC TV was a very nice gig. (We got free sandwiches and all you can drink coke) Also slamming a heckler called Janet at the Stones Corner Hotel was quite memorable.

Worst gig ever: Being heckled by some guys out on a bucks night, they mooned me.

First Car: Volvo 850 1994, it’s white. I call it Vanilla Ice Iced Volvo.

Dream Car: Bentley Coupe, black.

 
Celebrity you’d most like to get it on with: Andy Samberg from Saturday Night Live.
 
Fave book: Charlottes Web, Harry Potter, anthing by Nigella Lawson or Jamie Oliver
 
Fave film: Dead Poets Society, that film is the reason I got a teaching degree that I now don’t use.
 
Fave muso/cd: Jay Z, Kanye West and The Kransky Sisters
 
Fave holiday: Bribie Island 1993, we stayed in a unit at the pumicestone passage, it had a bidet and bunk beds!
 
Fantasy dinner party guests: Tina Fey, I think just Tina and I will be enough, I don’t want to be washing up all night, besides it’s not pay week, so I can’t really be out there buying salmon for 8.
 
Dumbest thing you ever did: Your mum
 
Smartest thing you ever did: Your sister
 
5 words that describe you: Polite, Sarcastic, Wranger, Shy, Lady