You throw in $500 for the festival, [and] $1,000 for marketing.MICF performers have two options for venue hire, one of the biggest festival costs for any comedian.The first is to apply and hope to be accepted for a festival-managed venue (FMV) I was like, 'I'd rather not perform than take a bad deal.'"For some comedians, financial support comes in the form of select grants like the Victorian government's Stand Up! initiative, which funds shows from female and non-binary emerging comedians to the tune of $5,000.The Moosehead Awards have been supporting Australian acts — in remembrance of Melbourne comedian Brian McCarthy, who died in 1987 — since MICF's inception, supplying successful applicants with funds to go towards venue hire, production and marketing costs.As the popularity of In Pour Taste has grown over the years and with Cavanagh and Preston having gone full-time into comedy, they've had to take their operation international.They found a similar reception to their MICF runs at the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but with added costs of flights and accommodation."It is really expensive [and] you don't know if it's going to work or not