The inaugural GC Laughs Festival is on the Gold Coast from March 17 to 24, with a knee-slapping program featuring some of the best names in comedy. On Saturday March 23 catch Women Like Us – It’s What’s Underneath That Counts in the Paradise Showroom at HOTA.

Women Like Us comedians Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs are different from your usual comedians. For a start they’re women. They’re mothers. They’re middle aged and they are country girls.

This isn’t your regular stand up comedy show. This is as one review described it ‘a two tena pad show’. These are untold laugh out loud women’s stories, smack bang center stage.

With seven children and over 40 years stage time between them, their ‘failure to parent’ is the focus of their material, along with the beauty industry, getting older, getting fatter, strange surgeries, weird TV shows, obsessions, frustrations, and at the end of the day, who unpacks the dishwasher.

Women Like Us is a riot. Ellen is a natural born story-teller and Mandy is a comedy machine gun – hysterically funny, fast, and physical.