Tom Binns as Ian D Montford: Spirit Comedium

Character comic Tom Binns, the man behind everyone’s favourite hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury, makes a triumphant return to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with his spirit medium, Ian D Montford - a total sell-out in Edinburgh, with critical success and one of the most talked-about cult hits of the festival.

Tom showcased Ian at last year’s festivals in Melbourne & Adelaide, where he was twice nominated for the Best Established Comedian Award. Having got the hand of contacting the dead, Tom is back, doing what he does best – creating masterful character comedy as a complement to his new found gift as a medium.

Says Tom, “The ability to contact the dead has now become second nature to me. “Now I can focus on using the dead in my comedy show. Last year was about learning how to drive my new comedy vehicle; this year is about finding places to go in it.”

Spirit Comedium mixes wonderfully observed comedy with spookily skillful audience interaction and faintly inexplicable clairvoyant revelations. Celebrated by sceptics, believers, audiences and critics alike, Ian D. Montford will baffle you with his jaw-dropping talents. Montfort is a spookily skilful, wonderfully observed, and hysterically funny spirit medium who contacts the dead with inexplicable psychic revelations leaving the audience gasping with incredulity and laughter.

Best Comedian Nominee Adelaide Fringe 2010 and 2011.

“The Underground Hit of the Melbourne Comedy Festival” The Age.

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