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The Agony of that thing on after Mad As Hell
You know how when you’re watching the Agony series and you’re not laughing? That was intentional this week. At least for the first 15 minutes of the show, because they were talking about the... Read More »
Vale Stop Laughing…this is Serious
The final episode of Stop Laughing…this is Serious aired last night, and while we’re as delighted as anyone that 180 minutes of ABC time were given over to these programs, they were sadly a rather unsatisfying survey of the... Read More »
Blasts From The Past
As much as we respect the work history of many of the experienced members of the cast, and are interested to see what the newbies have to offer, 20 weeks of Open Slather seems somewhat... Read More »
This is serious (Mum!)
Most of the time history is messy, contradictory and hard to compartmentalise, and Stop Laughing…this Is Serious, a new documentary on Australian comedy, gets it right by keeping its themes broad and... Read More »
She’s All Woman, Hear Her Roar
Judith Lucy’s spent the past six weeks exploring womanhood in Judith Lucy Is All Woman, and what have we learnt? That it’s virtually impossible to answer any of the questions she set out to explore?... Read More »
Classy Clown
Last year Hannah Gadsby toured her live show around the local comedy festivals, then took it to Edinburgh where she was spotted by a legendary British comedy producer...and the rest was history. Well, she got a series for Radio... Read More »
Instant gratification
Having recently checked out Ryan Shelton's work on Instagram we started to wonder what other Aussie-made comedy was available on the popular image-sharing platform. The answer? Not a whole... Read More »
Cooking Up A Storm
The Katering Show seems to have hit the mark for a number of reasons – it’s got a good script, high production values and spot-on performances – and because it’s about a topic that lots of people are familiar with: cooking... Read More »
Womanly curveballs
“Why do comedians always make this sort of program these days? Why can’t they make proper comedies?” a friend of this blog enquired recently. He was talking about Judith Lucy Is All Woman, the latest in a line of personality-led, comedic explorations of a... Read More »
Comoedia ad Hitlerum, or Godwit’s Law
…Aaaannnddd we’re back after our traditional summer break during which, as usual, we’ve recovered from all that slipshod Australian comedy we’ve watched over the past year by slagging it off one last time in our annual awards. Yes, it is a kind of therapy for us. But now it’s time to start the cycle again... Read More »