Search
Search
- Public spaces bind cities together. What happens when coronavirus forces us apart?
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 27 March 2020
- ... Around the world, major sporting events, music concerts and comedy festivals have all been cancelled. Any non-essential travel and meetings are being discouraged or banned. Sporting ground ...
- Coronavirus: what the latest stimulus measures mean for Australian artists and arts organisations
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 24 March 2020
- ... the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Now that has been cancelled, too. At least 255,000 events have been cancelled across the country with an estimated income loss of A$280 million at the time ...
- Coronavirus: Australian arts need a stimulus package. Here is what it should look like
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 18 March 2020
- ... large and small, from great cultural institutions such as the State Library of Victoria, to one-person shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Some of the events taken down by COVID-19 ...
- Hannah Gadsby's follow-up to Nanette is an act of considered self-care
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 30 March 2019
- Following the whirlwind success of Nanette, Hannah Gadsby recreates comedy as a safe, comfortable space in her new show Douglas.SuppliedReview: Hannah Gadsby, Douglas, Melbourne International Comedy Festival ...
- Friday essay: why is Australian satire so rarely risky?
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 15 March 2019
- ... is your guide, there’s more of it than ever there was in any imagined glory days of the past – satirical newspapers, comedy TV channels, radio hosts (arguably including Alan Jones), comedy festivals, over ...
- Curious Kids: what is a headache? Is it our brain hurting?
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 15 March 2019
- ... Melbourne Comedy Festival show “Why You’re Not Dead Yet” which is all about brain function. Read more: Curious Kids: why are people colour blind? Hello, curious kids! Have ...
- Curious Kids: how much does a brain weigh?
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 06 March 2019
- ... excellent questions about the world around you. David Farmer is the brains (pun absolutely intended) behind the Melbourne Comedy Festival show “Why You’re Not Dead Yet” which is all about brain function. ...
- Essays On Air: the politics of curry
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 03 October 2018
- I had never encountered the word 'curry muncher' until I arrived in Australia 10 years ago.ShutterstockOpening Night, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2018. Dilruk Jayasinha’s introductory salvo: This i ...
- Friday essay: the politics of curry
- (Top Stories)
- Created on 29 June 2018
- A curry-themed shoulder bag: 'Curry' is a word that no self-respecting subcontinental would own without a thousand caveats attached.shutterstockOpening Night, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2018. Dilruk Jayasinha’ ...
- AMY SCHUMER AT BMO HARRIS BRADLEY CENTER ON DECEMBER 4
- (PitchEngine)
- Created on 27 October 2015
- ... al Presents special. She co-hosted Hoppus on Music with Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 on Fuse and made her fifth appearance at the Montreal Comedy Festival this summer. Schumer is a founding member of The Collecti ...
- Comedian JASON STUART to Headline His Brutality Honest Humor at Tropicana’s LAUGH FACTORY LAS VEGAS ZANIES in Nashville
- (PitchEngine)
- Created on 15 August 2015
- ... nces as a single Jewish gay man living in Hollywood. He has performed at hundreds of comedy clubs, in addition to LGBT events, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Broadway and to 100,000 people at the Mille ...
- Persnieuwsbrief - festivalhighlights oktober en november
- (News Feeds)
- Created on 28 August 2014
- ... Rotterdam Beats. Ook cabaretliefhebbers komen aan hun trekken met festivals als Cameretten en de eerste editie van International Comedy Festival... Het hele jaar door zijn er in Rotterdam bijzondere festivals. ...