Golden Gibbo Retrospective

Congratulations to the 2025 Golden Gibbo Award Winner Kate Dolan for
The Critic in which she gives voice to her not-so-secret inner critic.

Image is of Golden Gibbo winner Kate Dolan. Kate has long brown hair and it is pulled back into a ponytail. She is wearing all black and holding a bottle of red wine. She is standing in front of a red Melbourne Comedy Festival media wall. — Image is of 2025 Golden Gibbo winner Kate Dolan.

2025 Golden Gibbo Nominees:
Andy Balloch – The Wedding
Taylor Griffiths – Sublime Avenue
Conor Lynch – Chimp
Sugar Bits – Feminist Trash
Charlie Lewin – Frogaccini

Previous Winners include:

2024 Dougie Baldwin – Detention
2023 Gillian Cosgriff – Actually, Good
2022 Alex Hines – To Schapelle and Back
2021 Nat Harris and Hannah Camilleri – Pet-Nat + Han ah Chocolat
2019 Neal Portenza and Joshua Ladgrove – Neal Portenza is Joshua Ladgrove
2018 Cam Venn – Charles Horse Lays An Egg
2017 A Visit With Nan In A Caravan
2016 Zoë Coombs Marr – Trigger Warning
2015 Laura Davis – Ghost Machine
2014 Fancy Boy
2013 Simon Keck – Nob Happy Sock
2012 Lessons with Luis – Kidney Kingdom
2011 Geraldine Quinn – You’re The Voice (Songs for the Ordinary by an Anthemaniac)
2010 Sam Simmons and David Quirk – The Incident
2009 The List Operators
2008 The Suitcase Royale – Ghosts of Ricketts Hill — A Rock ‘n’ Roll Comedy Adventure
2007 Charlie Garber, Nick Coyle and Claudia O’Doherty – The Glass Boat
2006 Greg Bird – Cliffy is Relaxed and Comfortable
2005 The Drowsy Drivers – Keating! The Musical
2004 (tie) Eddie Perfect – Angry Eddie / Jo & Jeremy Randerson – Carry on Randerson