My mammoth quest to be cool – “Lawrence Leung Learns To Breakdance” – has finally completed its very long season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It was a fantastic festival this year – the most fun I’ve had since doing the “Somewhat Secret Secret Society Show” a couple of years back with my best friend Andrew McClelland.
It was 24 shows (including two shows on the final friday) with not much sleep, a lot of late night noodles at the China Bar with Courteney Hocking and Andrew McClelland and hours spent on couches at the Trades Hall downstairs bar. (God bless you, Trades hall)

This is a photo of me with the Barry Award (It’s not mine, it’s Kitson).

Some of my favourite memories include:

- “Mark Watson’s 24 hour show” where I left flirty voicemail and conducted a sing-a-long (written by Casey Bennetto) with the audience down-the-line to Lord Mayor John So’s personal mobile phone.
- singing “Bizarre Love Triangle” with the glamorous 80s cover band “80s Enuff” dressed in a Miami Vice white suit and solving the Rubik’s Cube at the same time.
- winning the Audience Choice Award for my short film Howard Flu.
- being invited to perform at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh this August.
- visiting Alex Wuppertaler’s Bakery in Bayswater with UK comic delight Josie Long. It was a holy wheat-free pilgrimmage.
- hanging out with the wonderful staff and performers at Trades Hall
- Doing a late show in Tripod’s massive venue (New Council Chambers, Trades Hall). I felt like a rock star.
- The Best Show I saw was Justin Hamilton’s “Three Colours Hammo” (Part 3). Simply magnificent, inspiring and bar-raising.
- winning the 2007 The Age Critics Award for Best Australian Show of the Festival which means a cute glass trophy and a giant novelty-sized cheque, hooray!
- my brother Dennis’ surprise visit to my show.

Thanks to all of you who came to the show and made it a joy to perform.