The test of true love for Celia Pacquola will be not incorporating a future partner's weird anatomy or quirks into her comedy routines.
She will join comics from across Australia and overseas at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) in March.
On Valentine's Day eve, romance was the theme of the day at the festival launch, with comics `speed dating' journalists.
"I am actually single so this is good practice," Pacquola says.
Her last MICF show was about relocating to London and having a long distance relationship.
"Everyone thought it wasn't going to work out," she says
"But it totally worked out - and now we've broken up."
Pacquola's new show, Let Me Know How it All Works Out, is about not planning for the future.
She says she only dates her friends because she doesn't trust strangers.
"Basically I've just been kissing my friends because I don't trust people I don't know because I think they are going to write something mean about me on Twitter.
"I don't trust people to not mid-date be like `oh my God, she is so boring #i'mleavingwhenshegoestothetoilet,'".
Pacquola says she will know any future relationship is serious if she manages not to share with her audiences anything strange about her partner.
"People always say to me `No one is going to want to date you Celia because they'll be worried you're going to talk about them on stage', which is absolutely fair enough.
"Particularly if they've got weird genitals, or anything weird about them.
"I think that will be a test of true love, is if I can keep that to myself."
Em Rusciano's show Divorce The Musical is about her split with her husband a year ago.
Her 62-year-old father will make his MICF debut, joining Rusciano on stage playing guitar, as well as carrying her feathers and glitter.
"It's an uplifting show. It's also about how my dad and I got much closer and he got me through it all," Rusciano says.
She and her daughters now live with her parents in Melbourne.
"My Dad's (who is Italian) ultimate goal is to have everyone he knows living in the same house.
"It's not as tragic as it sounds. No, it is, but it works for me at the moment.
"It's not the greatest pick-up line: `hey, I'm 34 and I live with my parents'".
Rusciano says her best advice for others going through divorce is to be in the moment and not worry about the future.
"Just know at some point you'll look back and go `I'm really glad that happened'.
"Believe it or not, I'm so glad that I had the most horrendous year last year because I've learnt so much about myself.
"And I'm alright.
"It's going to be alright."
* The Melbourne International Comedy Festival runs from March 26 to April 20, 2014.
