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‘There aren’t any funny women out there': perceptions of gender in stand-up...
Dandenong comedian Tegan Higginbotham Of the 202 Australian stand-up shows at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, less than 25% of the acts were by solo women or women-only teams. I...
View ArticleYou Look Nice Today: a journal of emotional hygiene
In The Podcast Review, Jessie Borrelle reviews some of the highlights and lowlights in the international podcasting spectrum. The Stenciled Approach | You Look Nice Today on Huffduffer You Look Nice...
View ArticleEditors’ picks: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Neck Edition
Rebecca Starford, Editor My pick for this month is the BBC adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy, Parade’s End. The four related novels (that’s what a tetralogy is – don’t worry, I didn’t know...
View ArticleAmusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Hello again, The Great Gatsby game, welcome back to my life. This is why bookmarks were...
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Godfather of Carnage: Dance of Death at Malthouse Theatre
‘Dance of Death’ with Belinda McClory and Jacek Korman The underside of the marriage plot is the marriage-as-blood-sport plot. In 1900 the so-heralded ‘father of modern Swiss literature’, August...
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Not so ‘quiche': Chris Lilley’s Ja’mie: Private School Girl
If we’ve learnt anything from Chris Lilley’s latest series Ja’mie: Private School Girl, it’s that no one in their right mind wants to see Ja’mie topless. Once you look past Ja’mie’s bizarre and...
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Funny Broads
‘All comparisons between Girls and Broad City should be hereto forth banned from the internet.’ I agree with Katherine Brooks. Yet the comparisons continue, ad nauseam, mostly following one of two...
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Jerks, antiheroes and failed adulthood in You’re The Worst and BoJack Horseman
Watching two new US comedies – You’re The Worst and BoJack Horseman – I married them in my mind. It may seem a strange coupling: the former, a live action anti-romcom; the latter, an adult cartoon...
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Amy Schumer and the equal right to be funny
Amy Schumer There has been a lot of discussion recently surrounding comedian Amy Schumer and some of the sketches from her television show, Inside Amy Schumer. The show has been widely praised for...
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‘I can’t die. I haven’t figured anything out’: neurotic best buddies in Bored...
In season two of Bored to Death, George (Ted Danson) and Ray (Zach Galifianakis) sit next to each other on a single bed while Jonathan (Jason Schwartzman) shows them, on the pine bookshelf of his...
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