A new episode of The Simpsons just shook things up a bit. In an effort to attract attention to the season finale and drum up some more viewers when the next season roles around, they’re letting the audience vote on the success or failure of a fledgling cartoon relationship. Season 22 of The Simpsons has [...]
READ MOREMay, 2011
First impressions of An Idiot Abroad
Part comedy show, part travel documentary, An Idiot Abroad works by taking British comedian Karl Pilkington (friend of influential comedian Ricky Gervais) and putting him in an unfamiliar situation in exotic locations, under the guise of getting him out there to experience somewhere else other than England. The comedy comes from the way Pilkington reacts [...]
READ MOREFlintstones to be remade by Family Guy guy
Deadline are reporting that Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane has been given the green light by Warner Bros Television to remake cartoon classic The Flintsones. Intended for broadcast on Fox as part of its 2013 cartoon slate, the announcement comes after understandably long and drawn out negotiations.
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First impressions of Come Fly With Me
BBC comedy show Come Fly With Me made its Australian debut last night on Channel 9. Well, I say ‘Australia’, but as reported it was strangely dropped from New South Wales regional affiliates WIN and NBN. As someone who grew up in New South Wales on a steady diet of NBN, I think I speak [...]
READ MOREAshton Kutcher cast in Two and a Half Men
Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Ashton Kutcher will replace Charlie Sheen in the next season of CBS show Two and a Half Men. While Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven and Hugh Grant had become recent favourites for the role (a satisfactory deal couldn’t be made with Grant), the casting of Kutcher will probably make for a [...]
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First impressions of Angry Boys
Chris Lilley bounced back into Australian lounge rooms this week in his highly anticipated TV show Angry Boys, a follow-up to the popularly and critically adored one-man-many-characters LOL fests We Can be Heroes and Summer Heights High. Lilley’s appearances on the teev come pre-packaged with a sense of spectacle, a sort of limited-time-only appeal. For [...]
READ MOREProof that you can’t buy happiness
Comedian Simon Keck writes… When not on stage whipping the crowd into a frenzy of “This might be the ideal time to go for a piss”, I can be found trawling op shops for reasonably priced hipster accoutrement. If I’m not in either of those places, odds are, I’m at my Clark Kent day job [...]
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Seinfeld starts a website
UPDATED 9th May. Popular comedian Jerry Seinfeld has today launched jerryseinfeld.com, a sanctuary for three Seinfeld jokes per day. On this site you can expect to be drip fed some classic stand-up comedy material (depending on your opinion of Seinfeld) and not much else. While many comedians have already discovered that you can use the [...]
READ MOREPodcast: Justin Hamilton Live From the Comedy Festival Roadshow
From somewhere far up north, Justin Hamilton some time out to talk to Matt Smith about the comedy festival roadshow. Podcast: Justin Hamilton Live from the Comedy Festival Roadshow Justin Hamilton is currently on the comedy festival roadshow, hitting lots of different ‘not so urban’ places around Australia.
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Review: Greg Fleet in Thai Die
Freelance writer Michelle McLaren writes… “Yes, come in, come in”, beckons comedian Greg Fleet as the final few audience members arrive for the first night of his Sydney Comedy Festival show, Thai Die. An aeroplane roars mere metres over the roof of Marrickville’s Factory Theatre and he quips “You can bring your plane”. It’s a [...]
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Review: DeAnne Smith in About Freakin’ Time
Smartly-dressed with a slight Justin Bieber look about her (her words, not mine) Canadian comedian DeAnne Smith cuts an edgy path through comedy that even if you can’t relate to it, you can’t help but find appealing. Accompanied by a welcoming smile, DeAnne’s jokes are vaguely held together by the construct of time, and it’s [...]
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