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Working with Words: Nina Oyama / Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Nina Oyama

Nina Oyama is a comedian, actress and writer. She spoke with us about indecipherable teenage diaries, generating ideas late at night and magic potatoes.

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Working with Words: Alistair Baldwin / Work

Guest post by Alistair Baldwin

Alistair Baldwin is a comedian, improviser and writer for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. He spoke with us about writers as products, the potential for genetic modification to save and/or destroy us all, and writing an advice column using only knowledge of Agatha Christie.

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The Full Catastrophe / Radio & podcasts

With Rebecca Huntley, Sarah Macdonald, Libbi Gorr and 3 others

If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. At The Full Catastrophe, our event based on the podcast of the same name, we do a bit of both, as writers, comedians, politicians and performers publicly divulge the most excruciating and hilarious events of their lives.

Leave your judgement at the door for this storytelling-slash-therapy session, hosted by Rebecca Huntley and Sarah Macdonald…

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Invasion of the Pod People

The Full Catastrophe / Comedy & humour

With Rebecca Huntley, Sarah Macdonald, Maxine McKew and 3 others

If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. At The Full Catastrophe, our event based on the podcast of the same name, we’ll do a bit of both, as writers, comedians, politicians and performers publicly divulge the most excruciating and hilarious events of their lives.

Leave your judgement at the door for this storytelling-slash-therapy session, hosted by Rebecca Huntley and Sarah Macdonald. Nightmare job…

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Mayhem

Robert Webb: How Not to Be a Boy / Gender

With Robert Webb and Clementine Ford

In Australia, Robert Webb is probably best known as the iconic petulant manchild Jeremy in Peep Show, the award-winning sitcom in which he co-stars with longtime Mitchell & Webb collaborator David Mitchell. But in the background (okay, maybe a little in the foreground) of his long and successful career in comedy, TV, theatre and radio, Webb has been grappling…

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Working with Words: Evan Williams / Work

Guest post by Evan Williams

Writer and satirist Evan Williams on vengeance, listening to boring advice and getting robots to read your jokes.

Anything and everything in Comedy from across our archives.

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Invasion of the Pod People

Tripod / Comedy

With Tripod and Andrew Pogson

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Armando Iannucci in Conversation with Tony Martin / Satire

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

The Show of the Year 2017 / History, politics & current affairs

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Comedy Festival

Jeez Louise: #MeToo / Sexual & gender politics

With Nelly Thomas, Melinda Buttle, Steph Tisdell and 2 others

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The Wheeler Centre at The Toff

Nailed It! / Comedy & humour

With James Colley, Zoë Coombs Marr, Dee Fidge and 3 others

Portrait of Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski / Comedy

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Comedy Festival

Laughing Matters: Comedy and Free Speech in India / Comedy

With Sapan Verma, Daniel Fernandes, Neeti Palta and 1 other

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Between Two Forms: Comedy Online and on TV / Comedy

With Adam Zwar, Osamah Sami, Kate McCartney and 1 other

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LITLOLZ / Comedy

With Chris Flynn, Toni Jordan, Shane Maloney and 1 other

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Invasion of the Pod People

Like I’m a Six-Year-Old / Radio & podcasts

With Tom Ballard and Paul Oosting

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The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions

Rob Delaney and Benjamin Law: Are cockroaches attracted to human tears, and if so, why? / Performing arts & pop culture

With Rob Delaney and Benjamin Law

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Jennifer Saunders / TV

With Jennifer Saunders and Kaz Cooke

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Armando Iannucci / Comedy

With Armando Iannucci and Tony Martin

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HEY GIRL

YAS KWEEN: Girls on Screen / Film

With Judith Lucy, Mel Campbell, Jessica Knight and 9 others

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Election Special: Stand-Up … and Be Counted / Australian politics

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Carrie Brownstein / Biography & memoir

With Carrie Brownstein and Myf Warhurst

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Bent Merriment: Queer Comedy / Comedy

With Tom Ballard, Geraldine Hickey, Demi Lardner and 1 other

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Armando Iannucci in Conversation with Annabel Crabb / Satire

With Armando Iannucci and Annabel Crabb

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