© Jeannie O’Brien Maeve Higgins apologises after chat show confession
05/04/2018 … Maeve Higgins has been criticised after telling how she feigned a disability to get her pet dog onto a flight.
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2018 … With her stand-up shows frequently addressing dark, raw and challenging personal issues, it always seemed unlikely that Geraldine Hickey would transition to morning…
With Rowan Atkinson and Ben Miller
05/04/2018 … The first official full trailer for Johnny English Strikes Again – the first outing for Rowan Atkinson's hapless secret agent in seven years – has…
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2018 … Norway’s Viggo Venn must be the only comedian whose tax return includes a significant deduction for cucumbers.
Friends and Two And A Half Men, too
05/04/2018 … Some classic sitcom titles have been given a retro remake, in the style of old-school 8-bit video games.
Lee Kyle on his jealously of the middle-class safety net, and how he's trying to redress the balance
05/04/2018 … Every year, when I turn up at the Edinburgh Fringe, I see massive posters for shows by comedians that I, nor anyone else I encounter, has ever done a gig with, or…
On immigration, Toblerone, and fixing everything...
05/04/2018 … David O'Doherty jokes of his desperation to get on to Australian reality show Border Security in his appearance at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
On the sexy subject of calendar alignments
05/04/2018 … Ivo Graham tackled one of the big political issues of our time in his TV appearance at the Melbourne comedy festival.
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