The ABC announces new Aussie comedy podcasts
Taking on the trolls, and the World Cup
05/04/2018 … Australia’s ABC has announced some new comedy podcasts.
2018 Archives
Thu 05 April 2018
Rose Matefeo, the 'introverted extrovert'
At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
05/04/2018 … Kiwi comic Rose Matefeo spoke about being an ‘introverted extrovert’ at her appearance at the Melbourne comedy festivals’s opening night Comedy Allstars Supershow.
Jerry Springer: The Opera up for off-Broadway awards
Four nominees for Stewart Lee's musical
05/04/2018 … Jerry Springer: The Opera has been nominated for four of the most prestigious awards for off-Broadway Theatre, including best musical.
Wed 04 April 2018
A Milligan marathon
London's BFI dedicates a day to Spike
04/04/2018 … The British Film Institute is to devote a day of programming to Spike Milligan to mark the centenary of his birth this month in Ahmednagar, India.
It's Romesh Ranaganaked
04/04/2018 … Romesh Ranganathan is a comedian who doesn’t like baring his soul in his stand-up.
'Absolutely delightful nonsense'
Time-travelling comedy magicians Morgan and West pick their Perfect Playlist
04/04/2018 … Being the 19th Century's greatest practitioners of prestidigitation we have surprisingly late 20th/early 21st Century taste in comedy.
Weird Al, crossword compiler
Let no one say the musical comedian is clueless
04/04/2018 … It’s certainly an unexpected new string to his bow… but Weird Al Yankovic has turned crossword compiler.
Playing favourites
Bafta nominates only half of several top comedy partnerships
04/04/2018 … This year’s Bafta nominees have been announced – with judges splitting up many comedy partnerships to shortlist just one of the performers.