Culture
Comedy
Wine snobbery driving you to drink? This festival comedy show is for you
In Pour Taste, which is running at Bondi Festival, includes a joke-filled tasting of five wines.
- by Daniel Herborn
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David Walliams on censorship, comedy taboos and his advice to Adele
Having sold more than 56 million books to youngsters, the comedian is concerned about “sanitising” children’s classics.
- by Michael Lallo
Jerry Seinfeld tells activists they’re in the wrong place at his Australian shows. Here’s why they persist
The comedian has become the target of pro-Palestinian protesters over what has been interpreted as his support for Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
- by Karl Quinn
Jerry Seinfeld and pro-Palestinian protester in heated exchange at Australian show
The US comedian was heckled during his Sunday night performance, and video shows a man being escorted out by security.
- by Karl Quinn
Julia Louis-Dreyfus hits back at Seinfeld’s political correctness remarks
The former Seinfeld co-stars have different views on political correctness and comedy.
- by Nell Geraets
The voice that filled Australian lounge rooms
For a few heady decades, John Blackman was The Voice, widely heard on TV and radio but not seen. He was once described as being “as Melbourne as the MCG”.
- by Debi Enker
Opinion
Comedy
Give me back my landline, my desk drawers, and my dreary old office
The modern office space is a noisy, annoying, overcrowded travesty.
- by Richard Glover
Have you heard the one about the scientist who does stand-up?
Scientists are increasingly crossing over into comedy.
- by Daniel Herborn
A male listener hated feminists like her, but then she made him laugh
Deborah Frances-White was surprised when a man emailed her saying he’d listened to 18 months worth of her show, The Guilty Feminist.
- by Wendy Tuohy