Michael Workman

Brilliantly, Michael Workman’s comedy is about much, much more than jokes.

The comic, who cut his teeth in the rooms of Perth and now lives in Sydney, is a master of language, almost poetic in his ability to choose precisely the right word at the right time and to convey emotion by means of a delicately-constructed metaphor. All of which means his 2015 show, an engagingly frank tale of love and loss, brings the gut-punches alongside the punchlines. Workman is charming, erudite and infinitely relatable and the show is by turns sweet, sad and hilarious. All the hallmarks of a master storyteller in the making.