© TJ Garvie Shahnee Hunter wins Deadly Funny 2023
Competition for First Nation Australians
16/04/2023 … Queensland’s Shahnee Hunter has won this year’s Deadly Funny competition for Aboriginal comedians.
Sun 16 April 2023
© TJ Garvie 
Dani Cabs Poncho: Keep it Up!
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
16/04/2023 … Dressed in a suit that appears to be fashioned from the garish orange tablecloth of a tacky 1970s diner, Dani Cabs’s clown persona Poncho is a gleefully upbeat…
Adrienne Truscott & Le Gateau Chocolat: Grey Arias
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
16/04/2023 … He’s a gay, black, Nigerian drag artist; she’s a confrontational white American feminist performance artist.
Sat 15 April 2023
Die Roten Punkte: Otto & Astrid's Joint Solo Project
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
15/04/2023 … Australia’s leading – indeed only – sibling Krautrock cabaret parody duo have been at loggerheads ever since they formed.
Mark Flynn wins Bath's new act competition
15/04/2023 … Mark Flynn has won this year’s new act competition at the Bath Comedy Festival.
Fri 14 April 2023
© Tim Green/CC BY-SA 2.0 We have taken so many words from the French...
14/04/2023 … Tweets of the week Quite a few French words have found their way into English.
Gareth Richards crowdfunder tops £18k
Generous response to help comedians' sons after his death
14/04/2023 … A crowdfunding campaign to help the sons of comedian Gareth Richards, who died last week after a motorway crash, has raised more than £18,000.
Minnie Driver cast in America's female-led Peep Show remake
Starring alongside Amandla Jahava
14/04/2023 … Minnie Driver is to star in the American female-led remake of Peep Show.