culture
comedy
television May 31, 2025
Award-winning performer Gillian Cosgriff
A polymath of the stage, Gillian Cosgriff brings her new show to the upcoming Adelaide Cabaret Festival, steering away from topicality to interactive games.
comedy April 9, 2025
The best from Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025
While many of the most memorable acts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival use theatrical props, back-to-basics stand-up can still get the laughs.
comedy March 22, 2025
Comedian and theatre maker Lou Wall embraces the chaos of live performance, with winning results.
comedy September 21, 2024
After supposedly quitting television two years ago, Shaun Micallef returns next week with a new show on SBS – although these days he’s more interested in helping younger comics.
comedy August 31, 2024
The power of folk singer Grace Petrie
British folk singer, comedian and social activist Grace Petrie, soon to tour Australia, sings of love, life and politics and makes the marginal and the unfairly maligned feel seen.
comedy August 14, 2024
Performer and author Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin’s career has been a mixture of luck and hard work – and now, with the release of his new book, he’s coming out from behind the piano.
comedy July 6, 2024
Artists Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor
Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Melbourne performance group APHIDS helped to create a DIY feminist queer aesthetic that reshaped the art form globally.
comedy April 10, 2024
Fern Brady turns moral dilemmas into laughs
Scottish memoirist and comedian Fern Brady draws on peculiarities of a Catholic upbringing and her autism to create a Melbourne International Comedy Festival highlight.
comedy March 16, 2024
Comedian and cabaret performer Reuben Kaye is a collection of paradoxes, but mostly he’s an introvert pretending to be an extrovert.
comedy April 15, 2023
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The best performers at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival bring a new buoyancy to observations of social ills and private sorrows.
comedy April 8, 2023
Poetry in motion: the comedy of Tim Key
British comedian Tim Key builds his stand-up around his poetry, and his pandemic musings have morphed into a new show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
