Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Film Comedy
Snowtown is what Australian film does best: a grim tale of bogans murdering each... Read More »
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Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Sketches
Sketch comedy, like radio comedy, is a writer's medium. Performers are important too, but unless the writing is sharp a sketch show is... Read More »
Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Game or Panel Show
Panel shows in which kinda known people from breakfast radio, the stand-up scene and, increasingly, other panel shows improvise funny answers to questions have all but replaced scripted offerings such as sketch and variety... Read More »
Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Comedy Personality or Performer
Some comedians you'll watch in anything, whether they're presenting a 300-part documentary on invertebrates or appearing in a panel show about actuarial... Read More »
Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst New Comedy
With short episode runs and rapid axings preventing a lot of new talent from getting any real experience before being thrown onto the main stage, new comedy usually deserves a bit of... Read More »
Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Newcomer
The nominees in this category represent the future of Australian comedy, which means if they don't lift their game we'll be seeing some of them in our other categories in years come...assuming any of them ever work... Read More »
Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Introduction
2011 was a bad year for Australian comedy – on television at least – but not in the ways we’ve come to expect. Yes, the energy level was down across the board, with old favourites either tanking hard or stuck in a rut while the fresh faces were shunted off to digital channels where they wouldn’t upset the Spicks & Specks... Read More »
Australian Tumbleweeds 2011 – voting now open
Voting is now open in this year’s Australian Tumbleweeds 2011. Now in its 6th year, the Australian Tumbleweeds hails the failures (and occasional successes) of this nation’s comic... Read More »