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The Sonny Disposition – A Stan sitcom you might not have heard of
The Sonny Disposition is a new sitcom streaming on Stan about podcasters and other creative types who work in a co-working space. With each episode lasting less than 20 minutes, it’s the kind of show that would normally be popping up on YouTube, so kudos to writers Simon Taylor and Josh Samuels for getting it... Read More »
Vale Colin from Accounts series 3
We’ve never been huge fans of Colin from Accounts. Prioritising romance and cute dog chaos over straight-up laughs isn’t the way to keep anyone who wants comedy to be funny interested. But there was almost enough good stuff going on in series three for us not to totally hate it. Also, this will clearly be... Read More »
Not that Odyssey, the one with Shaun Micallef
Three episodes into the second series of Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey, and we realised that we’d rather watch this than most of the new Australian sitcoms aired this year. And indeed, most of the new Australian sitcoms aired in the last decade. Yes, TV comedy really has sunk to the point where we’re kinda recommending... Read More »
The 66th Logie Awards and comedy’s place in Australian television
A thriving television industry is one which includes comedy and lots of it. But was comedy a winner at the 2026 Logie Awards? Starting the show with Russell Coight (Glenn Robbins) giving host Robert Irwin a lift was a great idea, as were the gags in Irwin’s opening monologue at the expense of Dave Hughes,... Read More »
Vale Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee 2026
Over the years, we’ve not exactly expressed huge enthusiasm for Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee. Its fundamental flaw, we’ve repeatedly argued, is that it’ll never be as funny as you’d like a show like that to be, because the main point of the show – spelling words – cannot be made funny. Yet, somehow, in... Read More »
Tea and misfits – Another Cuppa? with Granny Bingo
Granny Bingo has built up a cult following in the last decade for its comedy/drag bingo nights and live shows, with performers Thomas Jaspers, Kyle Minall and Scott Brennan playing pensioners Edith Vale, Maureen McGillicuddy and Caroline Springs. In Another Cuppa? with Granny Bingo (available on iView, YouTube or your favourite podcasting platform), the trio... Read More »
Vale Bad Company, Hello Make That Movie
Creating a hilarious ensemble sitcom isn’t easy, but some approaches work better than others. And as we say goodbye to Bad Company on the ABC and hello to Make That Movie on HBO Max, it’s not hard to identify which approach is funnier. Bad Company is a show that should have generated a lot more... Read More »
Glenn and Mick’s Celebrity Intervention – A Reassessment
Six weeks into Glenn and Mick’s Celebrity Intervention, and it’s time for a reassessment. If you watched the first episode, with Carrie Bickmore, and walked away never to return, we get you. Honestly, we thought we’d be writing about this show again much sooner, because after that opener, it was clearly going to be axed... Read More »
Let’s get Quizzical
Sky News Australia’s current relationship with comedy is being clipped and joked about on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and The Cheap Seats, but can it generate its own laughs with the new weekly comedy quiz show Quizzical? Er, no. It cannot. And based on its first episode (which aired last Sunday, 17th May), it... Read More »
What a croc! Deadloch series 2
If you like your murder mysteries with a side order of comedy, then good news, Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan’s Deadloch is back for a new series on Amazon. And in this second series, Detectives Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami) are in Darwin, trying to solve the mystery of what happened... Read More »