Okay, this is going to be a tough one. How do we review an Australian sitcom that’s actually funny? Yeah, sure, Fisk was pretty good too, but c’mon. Fisk didn’t have an episode where a crippling addiction to playing a drumming arcade game really badly was resolved by having someone who’d shrunk themselves down to... Read More »
Hannah Gadsby’s Something Special, now on Netflix, is the feel-good follow-up to their previous stand-up shows Nanette and Douglas.... Read More »
The Cheap Seats is back! Still good? Still good! We’re done then? Yeah, pretty much. The show came back earlier this week without skipping a beat. There was plenty of mileage in the Royal Coronation and even more in Melanie Bracewell corpsing while Tim looked on in mock confusion. She’s from New Zealand, he’s short... Read More »
Well, we’re assuming We Interrupt This Broadcast is done – it’s not in the schedules for next week. And yeah, ten episodes seems as good a point as any to pull the pin. A bit of confusion over its departure seems fitting, considering it began with a blaze (well, flicker) of glory before fizzling out... Read More »
Barry Humphries was a pioneer, an original and endlessly inventive. Australian comedy would be nothing without... Read More »
After 47 years and thirty five thousand episodes, there’s not a lot left to be said about The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. And even less to be said that’s positive. But in recent weeks we’ve noticed a trend that we can’t help but applaud: more and more often, the guests are treating Pickering like shit.... Read More »
A new series from Aunty Donna is always something to look forward to and Aunty Donna’s Coffee Café does not... Read More »
Would I Lie To You? remains on air not because it’s entertaining but because it’s cheap to make and enough people are prepared to... Read More »
It’s been a long time since local comedy had a future on Australian free-to-air television. Watching comedy – well, the trends in comedy – is a great way to figure out where television is going in general: it’s a niche product on the sharp edge of production, so whatever’s happening there will eventually happen everywhere.... Read More »
Celeste Barber is perfectly cast as a hard-drinking, hard-drugging party girl forced to change her ways in... Read More »