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Vale Why Are You Like This
Why Are You Like This was one of those shows that started out promising and then just ended up a bit of a... Read More »
Vale Aftertaste
You get the sense with programs like Aftertaste that their goal isn’t to make us laugh, or even to entertain... Read More »
Pop goes another one
Radio National’s new science-themed comedy quiz show The Pop Test seems perfectly designed for the golden age of audio... Read More »
Another year of The Weekly
The Weekly… started 2021 as The Weekly… intends to go on: being basically the same as it’s always... Read More »
The most wonderful time of the year
We look at two end-of-year comedies: The Chaser's War on 2020 and Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell Pagan Holiday... Read More »
Vale Seven’s entire comedy output for 2020
As the year draws to a close, so has Housos vs Virus and Regular Old Bogan, the only comedies made by Seven in... Read More »
The Wharf Revue goes online
The annual Wharf Revue is one of many live events which has had to move online in 2020. Now in its 20th year, The Wharf Revue is a Sydney institution in which Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott satirise local and international politicians. Originally planned as the final ever Wharf Revue, and titled ‘Good... Read More »
Vale Rosehaven series 4
So ends another series of the slight, very slight, adventures of Emma and Daniel in Rosehaven. And by Rosehaven standards, this episode was action-packed. Four episodes previously, Emma (Celia Pacquola), Daniel (Luke McGregor) and Barbara (Kris McQuade) had attended a regional real estate conference, where they’d met big-shot agent Donovan (Josh Quong Tart), who’d tried... Read More »
So, so wrong
The great myth put about by those in power is that they know what they’re doing and that we should trust them (maybe you can think of a recent example of that). So, ultimately, perhaps, we’re all better off putting ourselves in the hands of people who don’t know what they’re doing? Could we really... Read More »