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Bask in more Tasks

Taskmaster is back for the second time this year, but is the second time the charm? Or the third time, given this is the third series of Taskmaster Australia.* On paper, this is a strong cast, featuring popular and successful comedians from several generations: Peter Helliar, Rhys Nicholson, Mel Buttle, Aaron Chen and Concetta Caristo.... Read More »

Buried

The new web series Buried is marketed as a comedy about being a mother, but before you start having flashbacks to The Letdown, stop. Buried, it turns out, is an entertaining and occasionally funny horror. Abi Cohen (Miriam Glaser), a stressed-out single mum of two, is trying to get her primary school-aged daughter Rosa (Audrey... Read More »

Puppet for destruction

Randy Feltface, sometime collaborator with Sammy J on shows like Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane, has a new radio series on BBC Radio 4, Randy Feltface’s Destruction Manual (available in Australia on BBC Sounds). And while putting a puppet on the radio seems like a funny idea out of the blocks, the UK... Read More »

Fresh Blood 2024: Sorting the middling from the good and the bad

It’s press release time! It’s always fun when a press release puts the word ‘fresh’ in (sarcastic?) quotation marks so we don’t have to. Seriously, though, is there anyone out there who thinks these were the three most deserving of this year’s Fresh Blood pilots? If we were ranking them in order of how funny... Read More »

And the comedy Logies go to…

The winner of last night’s 64th TV Week Logie Awards wasn’t television, or even Sam Pang, who seems to be becoming the Bert Newton-esque go-to-guy for Logies hosting. Oh no. The winner of last night’s Logies was Working Dog, who won every single one of the four comedy awards. As Australia’s leading and probably most... Read More »

Let us bee the ones to spell this out for you

Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee seems like a safe bet. It started as a Zoom/YouTube show during the pandemic. And it’s since morphed into a series of live shows at various comedy festivals and an eight-part New Zealand television series (with a second season of eight episodes starting next week!). Now, there’s a local version... Read More »

Why dramedies suck with reference to Austin and Colin from Accounts

What we get from shows like Austin and Colin from Accounts, are shows which feel written to a formula and contain few... Read More »

There’s a reason people call them the Bogies

The 2024 Logie Awards nominations are what you'd expect them to be after the last 12 months of Australian television... Read More »

Mark Humphries’ satire is back

What is 7 News Sydney doing creating a satire slot with Mark Humphries? That doesn’t fit with anything else they or Humphries have ever... Read More »

The Outback Outlaw Pauly Fenech

Pauly Fenech is back with a new series, Outback Outlaw Comedian, in which he tours the country with his live... Read More »