Comedian Simon Keck is presenting Tales From my Liver, a night of tales of drunken fortune and misfortune. ‘Everyone has a good drunken story in them,’ says Keck ‘We’ve all filled a night with vodka, vomit, and sexual regret. The moment you hear that it’s a night of people telling their greatest/gruesome drunken stories, you [...]
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Podcast: Sam Pang on The Match Committee
The Match Committee is a comedy web series starring Crikey award winning comedian Lawrence Mooney as ‘coach’ and Sam Pang as ‘assistant coach’, the brains behind the Roosters football team. Every week of the AFL season there’s a new episode showing their match committee meetings. Those who like their football will get a good laugh [...]
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First impressions of Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable
Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable sees the Australian comedian and self-admitted sceptic investigate the impossible. By seeking out experts and staging experiments that aren’t entirely scientific, Lawrence aims to challenge our misconceptions and beliefs. ‘In some ways it was just a lot of fun, but in other ways I was making the sort of science show I [...]
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First impressions of Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet
Listen to Leigh Hart talk to Matt Smith in a Crikey podcast. You can be forgiven if, for a moment, you mistake Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet as a serious documentary. It’s shot in the right style, it has the growling deep narration from a man who’s survived throat cancer, and it contains the required amount [...]
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Podcast: Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet
Kiwi presenter Leigh Hart calls in for a podcast interview to talk about his upcoming television show, which looks into the mysteries of the world and investigates the supernatural. Podcast: Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Podcast Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet starts June 14, 9pm on ABC2.
READ MOREJohn Cleese to head up Sydney Just for Laughs festival
British comedian and python alumni John Cleese will host the upcoming Just for Laughs festival in Sydney. The four day gala (with future events planned) will be from 1-4 September at the Sydney Opera House. It will consist of two International Comedy Galas and five solo shows. Irish comedian Dylan Moran and American comedians Margaret [...]
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Is Angry Boys getting any better?
“It might be funny when you’re a kid, not when you’re seventeen!” I’m paraphrasing a bit, but Adelaide angry boy Daniel pretty much summarised the entire show while complaining about his brother Nathan pissing on him from the roof. Five episodes into Chris Lilley’s twelve part odyssey Angry Boys and you can maybe see the [...]
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Comedian Trav Nash writes… I find it interesting when people discover you’re some kind of talking stand-up guy. The first question is always “So, what’s the worst gig you have ever done?”, because nobody ever wants to hear the story where you won over a whole room of strangers and took them places they never [...]
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Final impressions of Between the Lines
If you had a burning desire to see Channel 9’s latest effort to justify the ‘home of comedy’ title they were pimping at the start of the year, tonight’s your last chance. After four weeks the sports/comedy amalgamation Between the Lines is coming to an end. Between the Lines was a strange beast to unleash [...]
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