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Lost 1968 Morecambe and Wise episode found
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Mo Gilligan to make a documentary about chicken
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New stand-up streaming service to be launched
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Features
In the UAE, comedy is thriving in tense times
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Live comedy picks
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Videos
Cassie Workman talks about returning to Australia after living in Brooklyn for a couple of years in this set from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
She speaks about how she felt she had to leave the US because of the political climate – and a bizarre trope of small business advertising.
She performed the set at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Big Four-Oh!, celebrating 40 years of the festival, recorded at the city’s Regent Theatre earlier this month and now broadcast on Channel 10.
Cassie Workman on crazy advertising
At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Confess to what you did, you monster
Climate change comedy sketch