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Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Celia Pacquola dropped the F-bomb at the Logies. Will she be invited back?
The Aussie comedian may not have her name tattooed on Larry Emdur’s backside, but she did enjoy hanging out with her best friend Luke McGregor.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Latest
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.
- by Nicole Elphick
Opinion
Strata
It’s been a bad week to be a baby
You think being booted from a comedy show is unfair? Strata is stopping my kid from crawling on communal grass.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Dicey Topics
Good Weekend
A comedian’s advice to their younger self: ‘Get a double bed and be more forward’
Rhys Nicholson discusses sex education, career death and going full Victorian nanny.
- by Benjamin Law
Can babies and live comedy ever mix? We asked a bunch of comedians
Arj Barker asked a woman and her baby to leave his show. Would others have done the same?
- by Nell Geraets
Opinion
Stand-up comedy
I want to have Arj Barker’s babies, but I wouldn’t take them to his shows
Arj Barker was entirely justified in throwing the mum and her baby out of his gig. In fact, a lifetime ban would have been in order.
- by Michelle Cazzulino
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Arts
‘Focus is a delicate thing’: Arj Barker defends decision to boot mum with baby from show
The popular comedian asked the mother and baby to leave his Saturday night Comedy Festival show, saying it was for people aged over 15 only and the baby was “disrupting” his performance.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Opinion
Parenting
Arj Barker’s biggest joke was evicting a breastfeeding mum from his show
An expectation there be no noise is a high bar when applied to children if you consider the intoxicated heckles and liveliness among some comedy festival crowds.
- by Brigid Meney
It’s the final weekend of the comedy festival: Here are the shows not to miss
From an existentially challenging joke about bin bags to the Norwegian clown who won Britain’s Got Talent, here are our latest reviews.
- by Lefa Singleton Norton, John Bailey, Sonia Nair, Mikey Cahill, Hannah Francis, Tyson Wray, Cher Tan, Cameron Woodhead, Donna Demaio, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Guy Webster
Sarah Keyworth takes top gong at Melbourne comedy festival awards
English comedian Sarah Keyworth has reigned supreme at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, winning the Most Outstanding Show award on Saturday.
- by Tyson Wray
The best heckles, riskiest jokes and most tender moments from this year’s comedy festival
After a huge month packed with shows, our team of reviewers has come together to pick out the best (and strangest) moments from this year’s comedy festival.
- by Guy Webster, Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Lefa Singleton Norton, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar
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