Access to handle PR for World’s Funniest Island comedy festival

Tim Burrowes

June 18, 2009 3:40

Access Public Relations has been appointed to handle the PR for a new two day comedy festival to be held on Sydney’s Cockatoo Island in October.

The World’s Funniest Island event will feature 250 shows across 18 venues.

Festival Director John Pinder said: “It’s like the Big Day Out for comedy. There’s never been anything like it before anywhere.”

Early this year Cockatoo Island was the venue for the Nick Cave-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.