20. Felicity Ward, Udderbelly Pasture: 'I really wanted kids when I was in my early 20s but I could just never... lure them into my car. No, I'm kidding... I don’t have a licence.'

Last year, this critic was bowled over by the Australian comic Felicity Ward and her confessional tour-de-force The Hedgehog Dilemma. This time around, in Irregardless (Underbelly Bristo Square, underbelly.co.uk, Wed to 26 Aug, she's applying her spiky wit to topics including autotune and junkies.

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