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Concetta Caristo hosts the 2024 Raw Comedy final, a stand-up competition she entered twice without success.

Concetta Caristo’s journey from Raw Comedy failure to grand final host

The stand-up comedian and Triple J host bombed out twice in Australia’s biggest open-mic competition, and now she encourages others to give it a go.

  • Nicole Elphick

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Clockwise from top left: Zainab Johnson, Geraldine Quinn, Elf Lyons, Tom Gleeson, Joel Kim Booster

Surreal and lewd (and sometimes nude): This year’s comedy festival is off to a strong start

From Tim Tams to a screenplay written by an 11-year-old this year’s comedy festival is off to a roaring start. Keep an eye on our growing list of reviews here. 

  • Stephen A Russell, Lefa Singleton Norton, Mikey Cahill, Tyson Wray, Sonia Nair, Hannah Francis, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Guy Webster, Cher Tan, Cassidy Knowlton and Cameron Woodhead
Hannah Gadsby is enjoying the quiet of their home in regional Victoria.

How Hannah Gadsby harnessed Netflix’s ‘damage control’

The Tasmanian-born comic has curated a comedy special with a seven-strong genderqueer lineup to “leverage my position and a little bit of power that I may or may not continue to have”.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
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‘I don’t have impostor syndrome, I am an impostor’: Hannah Gadsby

The comedian is preparing for a new show, and is still stunned by how far their career has come since being catapulted to international fame with Nanette in 2018.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Galileo by Victorian Opera

Victorian Opera reaches for the stars with Galileo

This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Richard Mills’ Galileo, Nessa Barrett, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and Hannah Gadsby’s Banana Palace.

  • Bridget Davies, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Tony Way, Cameron Woodhead and Andrew Fuhrmann
Hannah Gadsby and Pablo Picasso

Hannah Gadsby’s new Picasso exhibition is a joke

Gadsby simply can’t be bothered, or lacks the skills, to present a thorough and illuminating explanation of Picasso’s shortcomings as an artist and person.

  • Tara Kenny
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‘I owe you one’: Hannah Gadsby feels chipper in Something Special

Juggling a new memoir, curating an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and making a genderqueer comedy special, the comic thinks it’s time for a feelgood show.

  • Lenny Ann Low
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In defence of Barry Humphries’ legacy, and the art of comedy itself

Not even Australia’s handful of cultural elders - those who prised open the windows of our stultifying mid-century suburbia to let in fresh air - are spared cancellation these days.

  • Julie Szego
The late Barry Humphries pictured with his OBE in 2007.

If it’s a mortal sin to speak ill of the dead, I have a confession to make

Making saints of sinners after they’ve left us is tempting, but the ultimate posthumous disrespect to an intelligent man like Barry Humphries is to brush over his bad behaviour.

  • Jenna Price
Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby.

Hannah Gadsby signs new Netflix deal, slams ‘transphobic industry’

The acclaimed comedian, who has had public stoushes with the head of Netflix, has signed on for their third solo special with the streaming giant.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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