You can be a good person, a “nice” person, or have tonnes of sexy bad guy fun with John Robertson and his puppet companions in the world premiere of A Nifty History of Evil, April 6 – 18 for the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Robertson follows up his 4-star 2009 Edinburgh Fringe appearance with a brand new surreal comic romp through History’s icky, shifty and weird bits, featuring: the Marquis De Sade; the Russian Revolution; cowboys, Indians; and obligatory moustaches.

“We’ve got some good Australian evil in there too,” says Robertson oxymoronically, “but things just seem a little funnier when they happen in Bulgaria.”

Robertson goes on to describe his wickedly seductive new show as “Dangerous Liaisons for the iPod generation.”

The only known Australian comedian to have interviewed a Dalek, Robertson has spent the past two years working between Sydney, Brisbane, Edinburgh and Glasgow (with Wayne Brady, Mark Watson, Fiona O’Loughlin, Jamie Kilstein and many more).

Robertson’s latest free form semi-improvised odyssey follows his ’06 Melbourne Fringe show Hunting with the Colonel, which earned him an Equity Guild nomination for Best New Script.

A Nifty History of Evil continues the Perth-based comic’s endless world tour, marking his first Melbourne International Comedy Festival appearance before returning to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010.

The consummate stand-up can also be seen as the resident MC-ing phenomenon of events as diverse and epic as the national Supanova Pop Culture Expo, Sydney’s Under the Blue Moon Festival, and the Madman Entertainment Cosplay Championships.

With a smattering of trademark ukulele, A Nifty History of Evil with John Robertson will take you back to a time when you could smoke indoors and brown was still an appropriate colour for a paint!

For tickets and other interesting bits, head to www.comedyfestival.com.au.