Going solo keeps comic couple Jason Chatfield and Sophie Miller together Husband-and-wife performers Jason Chatfield and Sophie Miller have solo shows. Picture: Tony Gough Source: Herald Sun LOVE may conquer all in marriage, but it's the kiss of death on a comedy stage. Husband-and-wife performers Jason Chatfield and Sophie Miller learnt the hard way never to mix business and pleasure after their first - and only - show together was the biggest flop of their careers. "We wrote a romantic comedy, When Melbourne Met Sydney, and it was genuinely dreadful," Jason said. But it's never a good idea to do that. It's not cool. It's the corniest thing in the world. Jason is the gifted artist who draws the Ginger Meggs cartoon and does stand-up comedy. Sophie is a Mandarin-speaking classical pianist who has turned her hand to musical comedy. And together, they now work solo, offering each other advice from the sidelines. They both have very different acts in this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, in which he does live drawings (Stand Up Comic Strip Live) and she plays piano (Do Better). The couple met at the 2009 festival, when Jason approached Sophie at the Hi-Fi Bar and handed her a flyer of his show. Two years later, he proposed at the same bar. "We'd just gotten through that godawful show," Sophie said. We'd just gotten through writing that godawful show and living together in a shoe box. It was like, 'we're still in love, man, let's get married'.