Comedy TV
We’re only two weeks in and it’s rapidly becoming clear that despite being titled Question Everything, nobody at the ABC got around to questioning why this show needed to be made. Hands up who thought the comedy panel show format needs explainers about Taliban social media propaganda? It’s that kind of thinking that makes all... Read More »
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- August 22, 2021
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- Comments Off on Everything’s Gonna Be…Axed
Everything’s Gonna Be Okay's axing is a good thing. It wasn’t funny and struggled to hold the audience’s attention for more than 10... Read More »
Having just watched Question Everything, we have a question: what the hell did we just watch? Half the show was pretty much what we’d been dreading from the team of Wil Anderson and CJZ – Gruen News, the show nobody was asking for. The Gruen approach is fine* (*not fine) for advertising, but is it... Read More »
Making topical comedy isn’t easy. Forget the time constraints: we’re talking about having to make comedy out of the daily news. In Australia no less, land of no amusing news in good times or bad. And at the moment, things are pretty, pretty, pretty bad. Was 2021 the year that much of Australia woke up... Read More »
The funniest thing to ever happen in, on, or around Rosehaven was the recent news that this current season would be the last because writer-creators-stars Ceclia Pacquola and Luke McGregor had “run out of stories”. To which a nation replied as one: Rosehaven has stories? Lest you think this is our usual baseless snark, let’s... Read More »
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- August 02, 2021
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- Comments Off on Moth (Effect) holes
The first episode of the new Amazon comedy series The Moth Effect only contained three sketches, one or two of which were... Read More »
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- July 28, 2021
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- Comments Off on Getting Comfy in The Cheap Seats
The Cheap Seats: now even cheaper in week two! It wasn’t really surprising that things were a little… looser in their second outing – while they presumably had weeks to get the first episode right, they only had seven days for the second – but when that’s the biggest change with a live show after... Read More »
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- July 23, 2021
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- Comments Off on Vale Superwog series 2
In a world where most Australian sitcoms can’t even make one style of comedy work, Superwog is a comedic... Read More »
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- July 21, 2021
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- Comments Off on We Can’t Give These Seats Away
A few months back we expressed befuddlement over the way 10 didn’t seem all that interested in exploiting one of their biggest local hits. MasterChef and Survivor get spinoffs, why not Have You Been Paying Attention? And clearly the programming chiefs at 10 are big fans of this blog – despite giving How to Stay... Read More »
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- July 16, 2021
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- Comments Off on Cancelled Comic Cavalcade
If you’ve ever stumbled into a cinema only to realise that not only is there a film festival going on but it’s a (gasp) short film festival, then you know just how much hard work goes into making a sketch comedy series. That’s because every short film festival has at least one and usually half... Read More »