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Download podcast interview link: A Talk with Adam Zwar       Writer/actor/comedian Adam Zwar is currently hard at work editing The Agony of Life – it’s a new eight part series for the ABC, and a follow-up to last year’s Agony Uncles and Agony Aunts. While the first two series looked at love, this [...]

For anyone who’s ever trudged back home despite your greatest reservations to spend quality time with a dysfunctional family at Christmas, this ABC comedy goes out to you… A Moody Christmas, the new comedy brain child of Phil Lloyd and Trent O’Donnell, tells the story of the Moody family – each installment dealing with the [...]

Last night saw the premiere of The Unbelievable Truth on Channel Seven, an attempt to strike it rich in the panel show goldmine. It’s come to the screen under the guidance of three of The Chasers, sufficiently neutered for commercial television. Craig Reucassel makes a likeable, efficient host, with Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen as guests on [...]

Listen to Judith Lucy talk to Matt Smith in a Crikey podcast. Australian comedian Judith Lucy has never been one to hold back. Frank and upfront, she has a style of humour that tends to polarise her audience – you either love her for her brutal honesty, or she sets your teeth on edge. Many [...]

Channel Ten’s newest offering from the ‘comedy only works as a panel show’ department made its debut this week in the form of Can of Worms, a show promising to deliver a laugh that makes you think, and stir up a bit of commentary and controversy in the process. Hosted by Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

When Kate and Will exchange their vows on Friday 29th, The Chaser’s planned to be commentating the event on ABC2. That is until yesterday, when access to the BBC broadcast feed was blocked from their use by orders of Clarence House in London. Laugh Track brings you a response from Chaser Julian Morrow. Podcast link: [...]

Starting this week (April 5), ABC2 will be screening the Warehouse Comedy Festival, a selection of some of Australia’s most respected comedians doing some of their stand-up material from last year. It’s a great way to get a taste of these comedians, as they’re all doing new shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this [...]