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No Risk with Fisk
Okay, we’re a week late with our Fisk review. But c’mon: if you need us to tell you to watch what is easily the best Australian sitcom this decade, you might as well send us your bank details and be done with it. There are a lot of things Fisk isn’t. For one, it isn’t... Read More »
Vale Thank God You’re Here 2024
Fans of old school hip-hop know the rhyme scheme where one rapper says most of a line then the rest of the crew come in on the last word. C’mon, don’t look at us like that, you know this! Call and response! Every single (bad) social media joke about The Beastie Boys is based on... Read More »
Question Everything? Don’t Mind If We Do
Question Everything is useless. Every single thing it tries to do, something else does better. And that includes “giving Wil Anderson something to do outside of his stoner podcast”, because it’s not like they’re ever going to stop making Gruen. Of course, we’re just pissing into the wind here. Now into its fourth season, Question... Read More »
Vale the ABC’s Current Wednesday Night Comedy Line-Up
Shaun Micallef’s Eve of Destruction went out the same way it came in: as a relatively engaging, definitely low-stakes talk show that managed to be utterly inessential viewing even by the standards of the genre. It wasn’t bad television, but was it really prime time television? Oh wait, it was on in the Hard Quiz... Read More »
It’s Time to Hit the Road: Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey
Now that Shaun Micallef’s entered the “not trying to be funny” stage of his career with Eve of Destruction and now Origin Odyssey, it’s time to ask: is there anything here for comedy fans? Sure, it features comedians each week. So did that Julia Zemiro show where they did burnouts in a parking lot and... Read More »
Closed For Business
So this dropped today: Was it what we were expecting? Pretty much, but you know what we’re like. What is puzzling about this is not that it looks bad, because it was always going to look bad*. It’s that it seems to have been made by people with absolutely no idea of how Australian television... Read More »
More of the Same Only More So
Press release time! 2025 Is Kicking Off With A Pang! Sam Pang, Big Brother, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Gen And More Are Coming Home To Network 10 In 2025. If home is where the heart is, then expect a whole lotta love for Network 10’s programming in 2025. Next year 10 brings home some of its... Read More »
Taskmaster of None
Press release time! Step Into Tom Gleeson’s House Of Fun. Taskmaster Australia Season Three Premieres Tuesday, 24 September. Starring Aaron Chen, Concetta Caristo, Mel Buttle, Pete Helliar And Rhys Nicholson. Tuesday night laughs are about to get even wittier as we welcome a new season of Taskmaster Australia to your Tuesday night comedy line-up. You... Read More »
Always With the Questions
Press release time! You won’t believe the outrageous things new comedians say when they stun in Question Everything this October. Or, less sensationally: Question Everything returns this October to tackle the news cycle with fresh comedy talent. Wil Anderson, Jan Fran and an assortment of Australia’s brightest comedic talent are back to share the bad... Read More »
God Has Nothing to do With It
Of the four new Australian comedy series that launched (on the same day!) a few weeks back, Thank God You’re Here is the biggest, the oldest, and the least interesting. Spanning six seasons and two decades, we all get the idea by now. The twist is, there is no twist. Can you still be funny... Read More »