Are You Pulling My Leg?
Next date: Wednesday, 15 October 2025 | 07:30 PM
to 08:50 PM
Image description: Photo of comedian Madeleine Stewart against a pink background. She is wearing black overalls and her long blonde hair is being comically blown upwards. Photo by Monica Pronk.
- PACC presents a night of live comedy with Accessible Arts and Crips & Creeps in association with Arts on Tour -
Showcasing some of Australia’s funniest comedians with disability or chronic illness, this raucous accessible comedy event boasts a line-up of award-winning performers.
With razor-sharp wit and undeniable charm, the Are You Pulling My Leg? line-up brings to the stage hilarious and uncensored insights into disability. From awkward encounters to side-splitting observations that cut to the quick, no subject is off-limits. Venturing much further than disability, their quick quips highlight the many facets of their lives, relationships, experiences and personalities.
Discover for yourself that disabled comedians are just as funny as non-disabled comedians! The biggest joke is that they don’t always get equal access to gigs, so support this show, have a laugh and help make a difference. It’s that easy!
This show will be live captioned and Auslan interpreted to help everyone get the punchlines.
Coarse language, sexual references, drug references, adult content and dangerously good-looking people. Strictly 18 years + (it's a bit naughty!)
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Comedians
MC: Maddie Stewart
Disability advocate and award-winning comedian Madeleine Stewart charms audiences everywhere with a sweet demeanour, veiling razor-sharp wit. You may have seen Madeleine perform with Adam Hills, Rove McManus, or Reuben Kaye or caught her episode on Dylan Alcott’s Listen-Able podcast. Her viral sketch on Marriage Equality for ABC iview reached 2.7mil views on insta, showcased her ground-breaking exploration of disability and Centrelink.
Practicing what she preaches, Madeleine won the AMP Tomorrowmaker award for her production of inclusive, accessible comedy shows- specifically Crips & Creeps and her short film ‘Inspire Me’ has just won Best Documentary at the Australian Independent Film Festival (AIFF).
Fresh off the Comedy Festival circuit, Madeleine is currently touring her accessible lineup show ‘Are You Pulling My Leg?’ across Australia in 2024. Madeleine is a refreshing and exciting voice to the comedy scene…. and oohhh sooo inspiring.
Act 1: Irene Nicola
Act 2: Sam Wade
Act 3: Elliot McLaren
Headliner: Alex Hudson
Review Quotes
“Crips & Creeps holds a fresh and unique position in the modern Sydney Comedy scene. By many accounts C&C has evolved past its core concept as an accessible stand-up gig, by developing a new niche of live comedy.” – Theatre Travels
on Madeleine Stewart
“Personal, inviting and hot… Could easily lose your breath from laughing” - Theatre Travels
“A refreshing and exciting voice to the comedy circuit”- My Melbourne Arts
on Sam Wade
"A deep, intelligent, perceptive, lateral thinker who keeps the audience engaged ... far more talented than many household-name comedians who fill large rooms." - Sydney Chic
"A consummate comedian that reduced his audience to tears of laughter"- Glam Adelaide
on Irene Nicola
“She is also one of the most confident performers to ever (literally) bare it all and not appear to give two s***s.” - Glam Adelaide
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When
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Wednesday, 15 October 2025 | 07:30 PM
- 08:50 PM
Location
PACC | Performance Arts Culture Cessnock, 198/202 Vincent Street, Cessnock, 2325, View Map
-32.8395261,151.3557255
198/202 Vincent Street ,
Cessnock 2325
PACC | Performance Arts Culture Cessnock
198/202 Vincent Street ,
Cessnock 2325
Are You Pulling My Leg?