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If you love Arrested Development, this is the comedian for you
Here’s a funny TV guide to help you find your next favourite standup at the Sydney Comedy Festival.
- by Daniel Herborn
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This year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival can’t come soon enough in worrying times.
The macho aggression of the handshake has to go. It’s time to normalise the high five
So quick, so inclusive, so clean.
- by Mali Waugh
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My name is Patrick. Don’t you dare call me Pat
This is a cautionary tale of Aussie nickname horror.
- by Patrick Lenton
Can this elite clown save literature with some full-frontal nudity?
Damien Warren-Smith is bringing his comedy creation – Garry Starr – back to Melbourne for an hour of rapid-fire gags, puns and physical lunacy.
- by Tyson Wray
Stand-up comedian spills the beans on the secret to a good joke
With six Netflix specials under her belt, Iliza Shlesinger says she knows the trick to making people laugh – and it’s all about fear.
- by Daniel Herborn