ALAN SMITHEE'S SCREEN TEST - FESTIVE SEASON SPECIAL Comes to The Butterfly Club, Dec 20

Lights, cameras, laughter as comedians relive the best (and worst) movies and TV of 2014 -- More sparks than David and Margaret! Punnier than QI! Sexier* than Rockwiz! Melbourne's funniest comedians go head-to-head on Saturday 20 December at The Butterfly Club, in a special festive season edition of Alan Smithee's Screen Test.

Part trivia night, part Movie Show and part QI, Alan Smithee's Screen Test is the world's first film and TV game show. It pits two teams of comedians against each other in a fast and furious test of their film and TV buff-ness and improvisational comedy chops, vying for the dubious honour of appearing in Alan Smithee's* next feature film!

Audience members are invited to show off their pop culture knowledge as well, and the ensuing chaos is expertly wrangled by film fanatic and well-seasoned comedy host Peter C. Hayward (That Sexy Show, We Should Know Better).In this final show for 2014, Andy Matthews (Golden Gibbo nominee, 2014 Raw Comedy finalist) and Claire Sullivan (Live On Bowen, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, SYN Radio Get Cereal) lead their teams in a winner-takes-all tussle throughout an hour and a half of film trivia, packed into hilarious games.Past guests have included Claire Hooper (Good News Week, The Sideshow), Jonathan Schuster (2007 Raw Comedy winner), Paul Verhoeven (Triple J, ABC), Rohan Mirchandaney (Big Brother, Time of Our Lives) and Tom Ward (Please Like Me).

Here's what some of them have said:

- 'Screen Test is exactly like Die Hard except instead of murder and bombs, it had happiness and fun.'-Jonathan Schuster
- 'Funnier than Schindler's List but with just as many lists.'-Pete Jones
- 'It's like imdb but on a stage, and funnier, and with less photos of John Stomas. It is not like imdb.'-Pete Jones
- 'For God's sake, know which one is Zelda or you'll be torn apart!'-Geraldine Quinn
- 'I walked into that show one man, then walked out a different, more entertained man.'-Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall
- 'Watching people getting answers wrong is surprisingly entertaining. I should know, I'm Saving Private Ryan.'-Kate Dehnert

If you were raised on Disney musicals, were first in line for every Marvel film, couldn't sleep after seeing The Shining, or have taped every episode of David and Margaret since the dawn of time, then this is the show for you.

ALAN SMITHEE'S SCREEN TEST - FESTIVE SEASON SPECIAL
When: Saturday 20 December 2014
Time: 10.30pm
Where: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, off Little Collins Street
Tickets: $20 / $15
Buy tix: http://bit.ly/1w1ekLp
Interweb: www.alansmithee.com.au

* Actually, not really. Not even remotely. Sorry, Julia.
* Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee, The World's Lousiest Director) was a pseudonym used from the 1960s through to the early 2000s by film directors wanting to officially dissociate themselves from a project that had been taken out of their hands and / or substantially re-edited or re-cut against their wishes.

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