This event is part of the 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

What a difference a year makes.

Haylee Deutrom returns to Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2026 with a new lease on life, a new series of hot takes and a new sense of self in the wake of navigating the current political, economical and environmental hellscape.

Minority groups are being scapegoated while the billionaires are being GOATed, weapons are protected more than humans are, and we are not ok.

But just when everything seems hopeless, we are witnessing the kind of counter-strike only pop culture can launch: a new Lily Allen collection of anthems, a fashion magazine obliterating the “male loneliness epidemic” by heralding boyfriends as embarrassing and Haylee’s new offering – her first as a happily unmarried woman.