URZILA CARLSON RECKONS YOU'RE A LOSER To Tour Australia

Multi award-winning South African-New Zealander URZILA CARLSON has become a household name in Australia in the past year, and she returns from across the ditch in 2019 with a national stand up tour.

Carlson will take her brand-new comedy show, LOSER, to 10 cities and regional centres around the country from March to June next year. Commencing at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival on March 28, the MICF season of Loser will see Urzila become the first female comedian to perform a full run at Melbourne Town Hall's Main Hall. Following Melbourne, Loser will head to Brisbane, Townsville, Canberra, Launceston, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle and Sydney.

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 16.

My Live Nation members can secure tickets first during the exclusive pre-sale beginning at 9am, November 14. For complete tour and ticketing details, visit: livenation.com.au.

"Loser is almost always negative," Urzila says. "I've lost my keys, a relative, my mind, money, dignity... it's only positive when you lose some weight. WHY? If you meet someone awesome would you not want there to be more of them? Why can your friends not see your fatness but your family and doctor can see nothing but your fatness? Why is losing so hard? The truth is, we're all losers in some form and at some point we'll hit our rock bottom. Are you prepared? Get ready losers, let's tackle our failures. What's the worst that can happen?"

2019 is already shaping up to be Carlson's biggest year yet with her NETFLIX debut as part of the streaming service's unprecedented stand-up comedy event series. Urzila is one of 47 comedians handpicked from around the world to perform a half-hour special which she filmed in August at Just For Laughs in Montreal. She is also one of the key cast of fellow comedian Nazeem Hussain's flagship show Orange Is The New Brown which premieres this month on the Seven Network.

Urzila is now a series regular on Network Ten's smash-hit panel show, Have You Been Paying Attention?!. Born in South Africa, she now calls New Zealand home where she is a household name and a cast member of popular NZ comedy panel show 7 Days. Selling out is a regular occurrence for Carlson in both Australia and New Zealand. In 2018, she sold out her entire MICF season including extra shows in record time becoming one of the biggest sellers of the Festival.

Since first taking to the stage in 2008 Urzila has racked up an impressive array of awards including Best Female Comedian at the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 NZ Comedy Guild Awards, as well as NZ's coveted People's Choice Award two years in a row at the NZ International Comedy Festival. In October Urzila became the new Australasian Ambassador of South African Tourism for both Australia and NZ.

MELBOURNE TOWN HALL, MAIN TOWN HALL, MICF THU MAR 28 - SAT APR 20 QPAC CONCERT HALL, BRISBANE THU MAY 16 ENTERTAINMENT & CONVENTION CENTRE, TOWNSVILLE FRI MAY 17 CANBERRA THEATRE, CANBERRA SAT MAY 18 PRINCESS THEATRE, LAUNCESTON WED MAY 22 WREST POINT CASINO, HOBART THU MAY 23 AEC THEATRE, ADELAIDE SAT JUN 1 CROWN THEATRE, PERTH FRI JUN 7 CIVIC THEATRE, NEWCASTLE FRI JUN 14 SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, SYDNEY SAT JUN 15.

TICKETS ON SALE 9AM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 Live Nation pre-sale: 9am November 14 until 5pm November 15 For complete tour and ticket information, visit: www.urzilacarlson.com & www.livenation.com.au.